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South Uist, Lon Mor, Ceardach Mor
Midden (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery
Site Name South Uist, Lon Mor, Ceardach Mor
Classification Midden (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery
Canmore ID 9883
Site Number NF73NE 7
NGR NF 75586 39262
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9883
- Council Western Isles
- Parish South Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NF73NE 7 7557 3924.
(NF 7557 3924) Ceardach Mhor (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
A low hill standing above the machar which yielded potsherds, bone and midden material in 1956.
Information given orally by R Ritchie (inspector of MofPBW) to OS 20 April 1965.
Ceardach Mhor is an amorphous grass-covered hillock 2.0m high, composed of sand with a few stones visible on the top. Potsherds and midden material can be seen in rabbit scrapes.
Revised at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 14 May 1965.
Soil Sampling (4 March 2003 - 12 March 2003)
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)
