Monument record MWE150042 - Loch Bhorghastail

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Crannog & causeway

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Grid reference NB 2115 4095 (point)
Map sheet NB24SW
Island Lewis
Parish UIG, Western Isles

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As part of the Lewis Lochs Project a team from Reading & Southampton Universities investigated this site.
A submerged stone causeway runs out from the nearest promentory of land to the crannog. The stone built islet has moderate vegitation cover with a single drystone cairn on it.
A dive survey revealed structural timbers and clear stratigraphy, large amounts of pottery and worked quartz were identified in eroding sediment deposits.
All pottery was identified as Neolithic.
This site has huge research potential.

K.Murphy (Archaeologist CnES) 17/06/2017


D.Garrow, F.Sturt, M.Copper, 2017, Submerged Neolithic of the Western Isles
Interim Report (March 2017) (Monograph). SWE41254.

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  • --- Monograph: D.Garrow, F.Sturt, M.Copper. 2017. Submerged Neolithic of the Western Isles Interim Report (March 2017). Lewis lochs project: underwater survey July 2016.

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Feb 20 2024 3:07PM

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