Lewis, Eoropie

NB 515650 150m NW telephone kiosk. Stone slabs and bones were uncovered during the preparation of house foundations. Excavation was limited. Finds included large quantities of animal bones (cow, sheep, deer, pig) and of pottery fragments, hammer stones, pot boilers, a bone pin. Some of the pottery has been provisonally dated to the early Iron Age. Structures found included dry-stone walls; a paved area; an under-floor 'drain' covered by lintel-like slabs, leading to a stone-lined pit; a rough mound of flattened stones. Stone structures at this depth have been found on other occassions in this vicinity.

Ponting, M and G 1977

Stonework of several structures overlain by midden material containing shellfish and animal remains were found during building operations. Apparently part of a complex of structures. Sherds of pottery of Iron Age type were found.

Hedges, M, Ponting, M and G 1978

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)