31371: BOSTA, GREAT BERNERA – TOWNSHIP (Undated), MILL (Undated)

Summary:

TOWNSHIP (Undated)
MILL (Undated)
Deserted township

Location:

NB 140 401

Full description:

NB14SW 6 140 401

Deserted township, planned by I A Crawford on behalf of the School of Scottish Studies.
D G Hurst 1968.

A township, comprising thirteen roofed buildings, four of which are annotated ‘Ruins’ and two as ‘Mill (Corn)’, two unroofed buildings, one of which is a mill and two enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Island of Lewis, Ross-shire 1854, sheet 17). Four unroofed buildings are shown on the current editions of the OS 1:10000 map (1972 and 1974).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 22 September 1997.

References:

1967. ‘Post-medieval Britain in 1966’, Post-medieval Archaeol. Part No 1. 110

Acknowledgement:

Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.