North Uist, Balemartin, Baleoch Machair

NF 7213 7328 At the site, indicated by Mr Robertson (H A Robertson, Baleloch) is a slight mound, c. 8.0m. diameter, on the east side of which are two stones in line and set on edge, and on the SW side a third stone again set on edge.

There is insufficient evidence to classify this as an antiquity.

Visited by OS (J T T) 15 June 1964.

NF 722 733 At Baleloch Machair (sic: OS name Baleoch Machair) is a circular setting of small stones, c. 25ft diameter: possibly a Bronze Age grave.

Information from OS (SW) 26 May 1965

I A Crawford 1965.

AOC Archaeology were grant aided by Historic Scotland for a second successive season of fieldwork related to a partnership project to assist a PhD studentship investigating the Marine Reservoir Effect, as well as a further project which includes analyses of Plaggan Soils. A total of 25 potential sites were visited to ascertain their potential for sample retrieval relating to the two projects described above.

None of the ecofactual or artefactual material noted at any of the sites visited could be described as being in secure contexts. The material was either within what appeared to be deposits interpreted as topsoil, in unstratified spreads, which were eroding out of the overlying eroding windblown sands, or in the case of Galston within deposits which appeared to have slumped down from above. In light of this no samples were taken for the PhD studentship concerned with the Marine Resevoir Effect. Some soil micromorphological samples were, however, taken in the connection with the study into Plaggan soils. These samples will be reported on at a later date.

AOC Archaeology - Alan Duffy (2003)

These three boulders, which have been taken to represent the last vestiges of the kerb surrounding a cairn, are as previously described, but the slight swelling between them appears to be entirely natural.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW) 29 May 2012.