Lewis, Ardoil
Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible), Midden (Period Unknown), Hammerstone (Period Unknown), Saddle Quern(S) (Period Unknown)
Site Name Lewis, Ardoil
Classification Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible), Midden (Period Unknown), Hammerstone (Period Unknown), Saddle Quern(S) (Period Unknown)
Alternative Name(s) Eornal; Uig Bay
Canmore ID 4059
Site Number NB03SW 6
NGR NB 042 323
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/4059
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Uig
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NB03SW 6 042 323.
(Area: NB 042 323) A hut circle, formed by a single curb of stones set on edge and measuring 17' in diameter internally, lies in a wind-swept gully in the sand at the SE base of Eornal. About 9' NE are a few tumbled stones, apparently the remains of a small structure.
Two saddle querns, a hammer-stone and a few fragments of pottery, together with some shells of cockles and limpets and animal bones, were got beside the hut circle.
Some 50 yards to the NE of the hut-circle are the remains of another. (By including the report on the ivory chessmen, etc. (NB03SW 5) with these structures RCAHMS seem to imply that there may be some association between them possibly 'the remains of a small structure' could refer to the same structure as the "small, subterranean, stone building like an oven')
RCAHMS 1928.
No trace
Visited by OS (R L) 28 June 1969.
Four hut circles, A: NB 0418 3233, B: NB 0420 3230, C: NB 0422 3232, and D: NB 0423 3234, have been located by Carson. 'C' is 8 m in diameter, while the others are 6 m in diameter.
Information contained in letter and plans from W Carson to OS 30 August 1979.
Field Visit (8 July 1914)
Hut Circles (Eornal), Uig.
[NB03SW 6] In a windswept gully in the sand at the south-eastern base of Eornal, a small hill rising 50 feet above it, and about 400 yards south of the high-water mark on the southern shore of Uig Bay, is a hut circle, formed by a single curb of stones set on edge and measuring 17 feet in diameter internally. About 9 feet to the north-east are a few tumbled stones, apparently the remains of a small structure. Two saddle querns, a hammer-stone and a few fragments of pottery, together with some shells of cockles and limpets and animal bones, were got beside the hut circle.
[NB03SW 5] The 78 chessmen of walrus ivory (Fig. 14), of which eleven are preserved in the Scottish National Museum of Antiquities, while the others are in the British Museum, were found in this gully in 1831. In the British Museum also are the fourteen ivory tablemen or draught-board pieces and a buckle from the same hoard (cf. for detailed descriptions Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., Vol. xxiii., pp. 9-14). The articles were exposed by a cow rubbing itself against a sandhill.
Some 50 yards to the north-east of the hut circle are the remains of another.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 8 July 1914.
OS map: Lewis xxiii (unnoted).
