North Uist, Newton
Sinker (Stone)
Site Name North Uist, Newton
Classification Sinker (Stone)
Canmore ID 10311
Site Number NF87NE 25
NGR NF 890 773
NGR Description NF c. 890 773
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Western Isles
- Parish North Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NF87NE 25 c. 890 773.
A stone sinker, found on Newton farm was exhibited in Glasgow in 1888, on loan from Mrs McNeil.
International Exhibition, Glasgow 1888.
Mrs McNeil's collection subsequently passed to Mr H H Mackenzie, fact or of the North Uist estates, whose collection was donated to the Royal Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (RMS, formerly the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS]) in 1972. How ever, this sinker was not with the material given to the museum. (But see NF86NW 24.)
J Close-Brooks and S Maxwell 1975.