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Pabbay
Human Remains (Period Unassigned), Midden(S) (Period Unassigned), Animal Remains (Period Unassigned), Pin (Bronze)(Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Pabbay
Classification Human Remains (Period Unassigned), Midden(S) (Period Unassigned), Animal Remains (Period Unassigned), Pin (Bronze)(Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 21385
Site Number NL68NW 3
NGR NL 608 874
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/21385
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Barra
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NL68NW 3 608 874.
(Area:NL 608874) A sand plateau "covered with small detached middens, each with a broken down ring of stones bearing marks of fire" stretches eastward from the burial place, (evidently NL68NW 2). Finds included human and animal bones, numerous hammer-stones, a probable part of a bronze pot and fragments of an urn. A bronze pin had also been found and "many old things ... had been got and sold at Castlebay".
J Wedderspoon 1915.
A bronze pin from Pabbay is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, Illustrated; probably late 7th. cent., vide R B K Stevenson)
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1901; R B K Stevenson 1955.
There is no trace of an occupation site in this area of shifting sand.
Visited by OS (N K B) 21 May 1965.
Reference (1901)
A bronze pin from Pabbay is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, Illustrated; probably late 7th. cent., vide R B K Stevenson)
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1901; R B K Stevenson 1955.
Reference (1915)
(Area:NL 608874) A sand plateau "covered with small detached middens, each with a broken down ring of stones bearing marks of fire" stretches eastward from the burial place, (evidently NL68NW 2). Finds included human and animal bones, numerous hammer-stones, a probable part of a bronze pot and fragments of an urn. A bronze pin had also been found and "many old things ... had been got and sold at Castlebay".
J Wedderspoon 1915
Field Visit (21 May 1965)
There is no trace of an occupation site in this area of shifting sand.
Visited by OS (N K B) 21 May 1965.
