South Uist, Daliburgh, Loch Hallan
Midden (Period Unassigned), Pin(S) (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name South Uist, Daliburgh, Loch Hallan
Classification Midden (Period Unassigned), Pin(S) (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 9856
Site Number NF72SW 10
NGR NF 73 21
NGR Description Centred on NF 73 21
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9856
- Council Western Isles
- Parish South Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NF72SW 10 centred 73 21.
'Shards of black and grey handmade pottery, two pointed splinters of bone, and pebble of pumice stone,from the more southerly of the kitchen middens, Daliburgh, South Uist.' were donated to the museum by J Graham Callander, Secretary (PSAS 1916).
Callander also donated 'a number of pieces of coarse pottery, two bone pins, a bone peg, a small pivot of bone, five scrapers of flint, andseveral indeterminate objects of bone, from kitchen-middens in South Uist. (PSAS 1915)'
Six sherds of handmade pottery and a broken bone bodkin, from the dunes near Loch Hallan, South Uist, were donated to the museum by Leslie Alcock, Brasenose College Oxford (PSAS 1950).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1915, 1916 and 1950.
Middens not located.
Visited by OS (W D J) 6 May 1965.
This may be the same site as NF72SW 4 or 5.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
