33012: MANGERSTA, LEWIS – SETTLEMENT MOUND (Undated), FINDSPOT (Undated)

Summary:

SETTLEMENT MOUND (Undated)
FINDSPOT (Undated)
Settlement mound and midden deposits

Location:

NB 009 310

Full description:

NB03SW 11 009 310.

(Centred NB 009 310) Iron Age "wheelhouse" pottery, and part of a long-handled bone comb were found at the spots indicated on 6" plan by Mr Carson (M Carson, Red House, Plealey, Pontesford, nr Shrewsbury, Salop), who states that they mostly came from "floors" (thin midden levels?) weathering out of sand dunes. It is hoped to obtain the finds for the NMAS, but he may wish to have them returned to him.
Fragment of a bronze ‘tortoise’ brooch found 1975. In NMAS.
Information contained in letter and plan from J Close-Brooks (NMAS) to OS 18 November 1974.

In RMS (IL 749 – brooch; HR 1354 – comb, HR 1356-1365-pottery).
M Carson 1977.

References:

1975-6. ‘Donations to and purchases for the Museum and Library’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 107. 333
1976-7. ‘Iron-Age finds from the Isle of Lewis’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 108. 370-5
1978-80. ‘Donations to and purchases for the Museum and Library’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 110. 536
Burgess, Christopher & Church, Michael. 1997. 2 volumes, surveyed 1996, covering the 100m above the high tide line, and the intertidal zone. Coastal Erosion Assessment, Lewis. A Report for Historic Scotland.

Acknowledgement:

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