Lewis, Baile Na Cille

Blackhouse(S) (Post Medieval), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Kiln Barn (Post Medieval)(Possible), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval), Township (Post Medieval)

Site Name Lewis, Baile Na Cille

Classification Blackhouse(S) (Post Medieval), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Kiln Barn (Post Medieval)(Possible), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval), Township (Post Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Dunan; Trainoil; Bereiro; Berero

Canmore ID 4052

Site Number NB03SW 14

NGR NB 04601 34474

NGR Description Centred NB 04601 34474

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

C14 Radiocarbon Dating

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Digital Images

SC 1691930

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township with the remains of the structure adjacent, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

27/9/2004

SC 1691935

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township and lazy beds with the old manse and burial ground adjacent, taken from the NW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

27/9/2004

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Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township with the remains of the structure adjacent, taken from the S.

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Lewis, Baile Na Cille, NB03SW 14, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

1958

SC 1691933

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township with the remains of the structure adjacent, taken from the N.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

27/9/2004

SC 1691941

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the possible dun with the possible dun and lazy beds adjacent, taken from the W.

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27/9/2004

SC 1691957

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the burial ground with the old manse, walled garden and lazy beds adjacent, taken from the SW.

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27/9/2004

SC 1691942

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the possible dun with lazy-beds adjacent, taken from the SSW.

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27/9/2004

SC 1691958

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the burial ground with the old manse, walled garden and lazy beds adjacent, taken from the SSW.

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27/9/2004

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Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the burial ground with the old manse, walled garden and remains of the cairn and lazy beds adjacent, taken from the NE.

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SC 1691934

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township and lazy beds with the church adjacent, taken from the NNW.

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27/9/2004

SC 1691932

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township with the remains of the structure adjacent, taken from the SE.

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27/9/2004

SC 1691960

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the burial ground with the old manse, walled garden and lazy beds adjacent, taken from the E.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

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Administrative Areas

Council Western Isles
Parish Uig
Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
Former District Western Isles
Former County Ross And Cromarty

Activities

Excavation (1996)

NB 046 344 The deserted village of Berero is situated on the E side of the Traigh nan Sruban opposite the township of Crowlista. Recorded as clearing themselves in the 1730s due to the ground being too wet to live on, the village consists of six structures occupied at the time of abandonment and at least one structure that clearly pre-dates those abandoned.

Excavations were carried out within this structure with the aim of identifying the date of abandonment and characterising the features that define this apparently early dwelling. These revealed floor surfaces that were waterlogged but completely swept clean of any visible anthropogenic deposits except small quantities of peat ash. Samples were collected to sieve for macro fossils but as yet no datable material has been recovered.

A full report will be placed in the NMRS in due course.

Sponsors: Historic Scotland, Edinburgh University Archaeology Department, Russell Trust.

Note (27 August 1997)

RCAHMS First Edition Survey Project

A township comprising eleven unroofed buildings, eight of which are annotated as Ruins, and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire, Island of Lewis 1854, sheet 23). Baile na Cille shares its head-dyke to the S with the township of Timsgarry. In addition, there are several lengths of head-dyke lying to the N and NW which may be associated with this township.

Two unroofed and the fragmentary remains of the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 27 August 1997

Measured Survey (1998)

NB 0460 3445 Bereiro deserted village. The village of Bereiro (NMRS NB 03 SW 14), located immediately to the E of the crofting township of Crowlista, and its associated agricultural landscape was fully surveyed. This survey incorporated upstanding structures such as houses, barns and various types of field walls as well as individual rigs, and related these to modern buildings and features.

Sponsors: Historic Scotland, University of Edinburgh - Dept of Archaeology.

C Burgess, M Church and S Gilmour 1998

Field Visit (7 September 2004)

This township incorporates three farmsteads, each comprising a long building with adjoining cells. One farmstead appears to have been rebuilt (NB 04505 34435), and a possible kiln-barn lies to the NW at NB 04551 34490, and another, previously unrecorded, building lies to the SW at NB 04665 34417. All were located with 'tomtom' Navigation-grade GPS

Visited by RCAHMS (PJD, ARG) 7 September 2004

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