31669: ALINE, LOCH SEAFORTH – OCCUPATION SITE? (Prehistoric – 10,000 BC to 1 BC)

Summary:

OCCUPATION SITE? (Prehistoric – 500000 BC to 42 AD)
Possible prehistoric occupation site under peat

Location:

NB 20 12

Full description:

NB21SW 1 20 12.

"At Athline (Aline (2) : NB 2012) on the shores of Loch Seaforth, I came upon the ashes of a fire that had been made of sticks, upon what has been a naked rock, but which is now covered to a depth of ten feet of peat"
F W L Thomas 1870; Name Book 1849.

No further information.
Visited by OS (N K B) 26 June 1969.

References:

Original Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 116, 17
1866-8. ‘On the primitive dwellings and hypogea of the Outer Hebrides’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 7. 194

Acknowledgement:

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