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North Uist, Traigh Udal

Midden (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint (Flint)(Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Period Unassigned)

Site Name North Uist, Traigh Udal

Classification Midden (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint (Flint)(Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Udail

Canmore ID 10325

Site Number NF87NW 15

NGR NF 833 787

NGR Description NF c. 833 787

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Western Isles
  • Parish North Uist
  • Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
  • Former District Western Isles
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NF87NW 15 c. 833 787.

(Area: NF 833 787) Scanty kitchen-midden remains, including pottery, shells, bones and a single flint, have been found on both sides of the rough track leading to the old burying ground (NF87NW 16) on the east edge of Ard a' Bhorain [OS name: Aird a' Mhorain].

E Beveridge 1911.

No trace of any kitchen middens could be found in this area.

Visited by OS (R D) 23 June 1965.

NF 8348 7871. Miss M Harman reports midden material, including sherds of pottery by the track to the cemetery at NF 836 787.

Information from M Harman to Ordnance Survey, 12 April 1978.

Miss Harman donated sherds of iron age pottery from this and a number of other sites on North Uist to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1979.

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