Note

Date 1928

Event ID 1103578

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

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RCAHMS Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles.

Earth-house, Machair Leathann.

Upon Machair Leathann, ½ mile north of Middlequarter and Sollas, is the site of an earth-house, which was investigated many years ago by the late Dr Erskine Beveridge, but of which no traces are now apparent above ground. It was found that the structure comprised fourteen radial chambers, arranged side by side so as to form an irregular circle with an outer diameter ranging from 34 to 37 feet, and enclosing an interior area which measured from 22 to 25 feet across at different parts. There have been two entrances; one by a low and narrow access through a supplementary oval chamber on the east; and the other, of much larger dimensions, communicating directly with what seems to have been an outer courtyard on the south. (Fig. 13.)

For a detailed description of the structure cf. Dr Beveridge's N. Uist, pp. 121-9.

RCAHMS 1928

OS Map: North Uist xxx (unnoted).