33098: TIMSGARRY, LEWIS – FINDSPOT (Undated)

Summary:

FINDSPOT (Undated)
Iron Age pottery found

Location:

NB 050 337

Full description:

NB03SE 17 050 337

Fight sherds and fragments of pottery were recovered from rabbit scrapes on the slope overlooking Traigh na Cille, near Tomsgarry, in an area with extensive rig cultivation across it. Most of the sherds are IA or later, although some may be earlier.

These sherds are less abraded than those from the other surface collections described here, and may be from largely undisturbed contexts. With finder – details with NMS.
Daybook no: DB 1991/77d
NMS 1992.

References:

1992. ‘Traigh na Cille, Lewis (Uig parish): IA or later pottery sherds’, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland. 84

Acknowledgement:

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