31370: GREAT BERNERA, KIRKIBOST, ‘HACKLETT’ – TOWNSHIP (Undated)

Summary:

TOWNSHIP (Undated)
Deserted township, 5 unroofed buildings, 7 enclosures

Location:

NB 189 345

Full description:

NB13SE 22.01 189 345

Deserted township, planned by I A Crawford on behalf of the School of Scottish Studies.
D G Hurst 1968.

A township, comprising twenty-five unroofed buildings, one of which is the church (see NB13SE 3) and sixteen enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Island of Lewis, Ross-shire 1854, sheet 18). Five unroofed buildings and seven enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 19 September 1997.

References:

1967. ‘Post-medieval Britain in 1966’, Post-medieval Archaeol. Part No 1. 110

Acknowledgement:

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