32963: CLEIT NA H-UAMHA, LEWIS – FINDSPOT (Undated), CAVE (Undated)

Summary:

FINDSPOT (Undated)
CAVE (Undated)
Findspot of coarse pottery, pumice and bone

Location:

NB 037 183

Full description:

NB01NW 1 037 183.

Sherds of undecorated pottery (one grass-tempered), a piece of pumice and some fragments of animal bones, from a large cave, Cleit na h-Uamha, Loch Tealasavay, have been presented to the NMAS.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1951.

According to local information this cave is at the head of Loch Tealasavay, in the area centred NB 037 183. No local knowledge of any finds.
Visited by OS (R L) 4 July 1969.

References:

1948-9. ‘Donations to and purchases for the Museum and Library’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 83. 245

Acknowledgement:

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