32187: LOCH BEAG AN TANGA, TORISTAY, LEWIS – FINDSPOT (Neolithic – 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Summary:

FINDSPOT (Neolithic – 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Findspot of prehistoric, probably Neolithic, pottery

Location:

NB 3822 1954

Full description:

NB31NE 1 2822 1954.

(NB 382 196) "Heap of stones from which came pottery ND 853: 1950." marked on map.
Private 6"map (NMAS – R B K Stevenson)

Potsherds, probably Neolithic, from under a cairn near Loch Beag an Tanga, Toristay, Lochs (Grid. ref. 19/382196) were presented by the finder, Kenneth MacKinnon, 6 Toristay Cromore, Lochs, to the NMAS. The decorated vessel has an estimated rim diameter of 11.5 ins.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1952.

The findspot of these sherds was pointed out on the ground, at NB 3822 1954, by Mr MacKinnon, amongst a pile of boulders tumbled from an adjacent low cliff. Not a cairn.
They were denoted in 1949 or 1950 but Mr MacKinnon could not remember exactly when they were found.
Visited by OS (N K B) 23 June 1969.

References:

1949-50. ‘Donations to and purchases for the Museum and Library’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 84. 227-8 illust. fig. 1

Acknowledgement:

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