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North Uist, Loch Na Buaile

Causeway(S) (Prehistoric), Dun (Prehistoric)(Possible)

Site Name North Uist, Loch Na Buaile

Classification Causeway(S) (Prehistoric), Dun (Prehistoric)(Possible)

Canmore ID 10456

Site Number NF97SW 5

NGR NF 9073 7004

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

NF97SW 5 9073 7004.

(Area NF 908701) A high wooded island near the W end of Loch Na Buaile is said to have been occupied by a dun. The walls of some building could be traced here c.1870 when the summit was bare, but at the time that Beveridge wrote, the island was so overgrown that no structural remains were then visible. There is however, evidence of an under-water curved causeway from the SE of the island to the shore of the loch, which suppports the tradition (E Beveridge 1911).

Classified under 'Duns': traditional site, heavily overgrown; nothing to be seen (RCAHMS 1928)

E Beveridge 1911; RCAHMS 1928.

NF 9073 7004. This wooded island, measuring 29.0m E-W x 10.0m transversely, is as described by Beveridge. No trace of a dun or other structure could be seen, but a submerged causeway could be traced from the S side of the island to an adjacent smaller islet and thence to the shore.

Visited by OS (R B) 24 June 1965.

Activities

Field Visit (23 July 1914)

Dun, Loch na Buaile, Lochmaddy.

Towards the west end of Loch na Buaile, a small loch about a mile north-west of Lochmaddy, is a small flat-topped island, overgrown with a vigorous growth of rowans, honey-suckle and bracken, which is traditionally the site of a dun. Owing to the growth of vegetation no signs of building can be seen, but a submerged causeway from the south-eastern corner of the island to an intervening islet, and from that islet to the south bank of the loch, seems to confirm the tradition.

RCAHMS 1928, visited 23 July 1914

OS map: North Uist xxxv (unnoted).

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