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Field Visit
Date 18 June 1914
Event ID 1102916
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1102916
Burial Mound, Sithean na h-Iolaire, Uig.
At Sithean na h-Iolaire, some 500 yards north-north-west of Uig Lodge and about 200 yards west of the east side of Uig Bay, at an elevation of 50 feet above sea-level, is an irregularly shaped mound of unstratified sand containing a considerable number of small boulders. It measures some 60 feet from north-east to south-west and 40 feet across, and rises to a height of 5 feet. Human bones have been thrown out from time to time by rabbits burrowing.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 18 June 1914.
OS map: Lewis xxiii (unnoted).
