North Uist, Blashaval
Mound (Period Unassigned), Settlement (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Unidentified Pottery (Iron Age)
Site Name North Uist, Blashaval
Classification Mound (Period Unassigned), Settlement (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Unidentified Pottery (Iron Age)
Canmore ID 10356
Site Number NF87SE 22
NGR NF 8937 7096
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10356
- Council Western Isles
- Parish North Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NF87SE 22 8937 7096.
NF 894 711 Iron Age pottery was found during recent quarrying in a small mound successively occupied by a shieling and now a late-19th century house.
The pottery is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).
I A Crawford 1964; Information from Norman Johnstone, Lochmaddy.
The exact find-spot of the pottery was indicated, at NF 8937 7096, by Mrs Robertson (A J Robertson, Bonnie Blink, Lochmaddy) whose husband dug it up in 1963.
It was found in a low amorphous mound in which were also found ashes and stones, suitable for building purposes, suggesting an Iron Age settlement site.
Visited by OS (N K B) 18 June 1965.
Obliterated by bulldozer during building extensions in 1977.
I A Crawford 1980.
