North Uist, Foshigary
Township (Medieval) - (18th Century)
Site Name North Uist, Foshigary
Classification Township (Medieval) - (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Foshigarry; Griminish
Canmore ID 10061
Site Number NF77NW 11
NGR NF 7426 7630
NGR Description Centred on NF 7426 7630
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Western Isles
- Parish North Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NF77NW 11 centred on 7426 7630
(NF 743 763) Foshigary : settlement, depopulated by 1881.
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 1st ed., (19881)
The settlement is mentioned as early as 1429, and was cleared in the late 1820's.
Information from MS, I A Crawford (Contributions to a History of Settlement in North Uist)
There are the foundations of at least eighteen buildings in the area centred at NF 7426 7630. They range from 11.0 x 5.0m to 4.5 x 3.0m and are in association with enclosure.
The majority are bounded by turf-covered walls, the best-preserved having a maximum height of 1.0m
Visited by OS (J T T) 19 June 1965
Note (17 April 1997)
Thirteen unroofed buildings and two enclosures are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Hebrides, North Uist & Harris 1882, sheet xxix). Seven unroofed buildings and an enclosure are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971). Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 17 April 1997
Soil Sampling (4 March 2003 - 12 March 2003)
AOC Archaeology were grant aided by Historic Scotland for a second successive season of fieldwork related to a partnership project to assist a PhD studentship investigating the Marine Reservoir Effect, as well as a further project which includes analyses of Plaggan Soils. A total of 25 potential sites were visited to ascertain their potential for sample retrieval relating to the two projects described above.
None of the ecofactual or artefactual material noted at any of the sites visited could be described as being in secure contexts. The material was either within what appeared to be deposits interpreted as topsoil, in unstratified spreads, which were eroding out of the overlying eroding windblown sands, or in the case of Galston within deposits which appeared to have slumped down from above. In light of this no samples were taken for the PhD studentship concerned with the Marine Resevoir Effect. Some soil micromorphological samples were, however, taken in the connection with the study into Plaggan soils. These samples will be reported on at a later date.
AOC Archaeology - Alan Duffy (2003)
