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North Uist, Otternish, Rubh' A' Charnain Mhor, Carnan Beag

Cairn (Viking), Inhumation (Viking)(Possible), Rivet (Iron)(Viking)

Site Name North Uist, Otternish, Rubh' A' Charnain Mhor, Carnan Beag

Classification Cairn (Viking), Inhumation (Viking)(Possible), Rivet (Iron)(Viking)

Alternative Name(s) Rudh' A' Charnain Mhor

Canmore ID 10434

Site Number NF97NW 2

NGR NF 9044 7930

NGR Description NF 9044 7930 and NF 9042 7927

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Western Isles
  • Parish North Uist
  • Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
  • Former District Western Isles
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NF97NW 2 9044 7930 and 9042 7927

(NF 9042 7927) Human Remains found AD. 1870 (NAT)

OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

A small cairn called 'Carnan Beag' is situated where a find of Human Remains is published on the 0S map. At least one rivet was found similar to those at Rudh' a' Charnain Mhoir (NF97NW 1), suggesting to Beveridge that this also could represent a Viking burial of pre-11th century date.

E Beveridge 1911.

There are fragmentary remains of a small cairn, c.5.0m in diameter which agrees with Beveridge's position in relation to the cairn at 9043 7935 (NF97NW 1), but not with the 0S published position where there is no evidence of a cairn.

Visited by OS (JTT), 26 June 1965.

Activities

Field Visit (15 August 1914)

Viking Burials, Carnan Mhor, Otternish.

On the brow of the hill rising some 30 feet above Rudh' a Charnain Mhoir, the north-west corner of the Otternish peninsula, facing the island of Berneray, about i mile north-east ofPort nan Long, are several mounds of tumbled stones. Iron rivets of Viking type were noted.

About 100 yards to the south on the summit of the hill is a small cairn of stones, Carnan Beag, in which Viking rivets have also been found.

Both these sites have been rifled, and besides the rivets already noted, a number of glass beads and a hair comb of Viking type were recovered. A skeleton was also found in the first-mentioned burial.

RCAHMS 1928, visited 15 August 1914.

OS map: North Uist xxvi.

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