Site Event/Activity record EWE81 - Excavations at Coileagan an Udail, North Uist

Location

Location Coileagan an Udail, North Uist
Grid reference NF 82440 78250 (point)
Map sheet NF87NW
Island North Uist
Parish NORTH UIST, Western Isles

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Description

Extensive and prolonged excavations on at least two settlement mounds on the Udal peninsula (Udal North & South).

Sources/Archives (5)

  • --- Unpublished document: Iain A. Crawford. The West Highlands and Islands: A view of 50 centuries.
  • --- Article in serial: Iain A. Crawford. 1996. The Udal. 147.
  • --- Article in serial: Dale Serjeantson. 2001. The great auk and the gannet: A prehistoric perspective on the extinction of the great auk.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: Dale Serjeantson. 2013. Farming and Fishing in the Outer Hebrides AD 600 to 1700.
  • --- Serial: Alan Lane. 2007. Ceramic and cultural change in the Hebrides AD 500-1300.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • COILEAGAN AN UDAL, NORTH UIST (Monument)

Record last edited

Feb 11 2026 11:15AM

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