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Archaeology in the Outer Hebrides

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Cladh Hallan overhead

Download the Uist Unearthed app and step back 3500 years ago to explore conjoined Bronze Age roundhouses nestled in the Daliburgh machair.

Uist Unearthed - Location D - Dùn Torcuill

Download the Uist Unearthed app and discover more about this mastery of Iron Age drystone engineering. How were brochs roofed? Play the Build a Broch game to learn more about this archaeological…

Cill Donnain pannoramic photo in machair land

Download the Uist Unearthed app and step back 2000 years ago, to explore Cill Donnain Iron Age wheelhouse. Duck inside Cill Donnain’s impressively corbelled drystone cells: what will you discover…

Virtual Dun an Sticir from a distance

Download the Uist Unearthed app and discover two sites in one at Dùn an Sticir! Watch the animation about the downfall of one of Dùn an Sticir’s most dastardly residents, created by the pupils of…

Virtual Bornais from a distance

Download the Uist Unearthed app and reveal an impressive Viking longhouse, which dominated the Bornais machair 1100 years ago.

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  1. Virtual Bornais from a distance
    Group of children next to virtual hut with fire burning inside
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    Uist Unearthed signpost
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    Virtual Bornais from a distance
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    Daliburgh, Isle of South Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS8 5SS

    Isle of South Uist

    Download the Uist Unearthed app and reveal an impressive Viking longhouse, which dominated the Bornais machair 1100 years ago.

    Add Uist Unearthed - Location C - Bornais to your Itinerary

  2. Dun Torcuill view through phone app
    Uist Unearthed signpost
    Dun Torcuill from a distance
    Dun Torcuill view through phone app
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    Dun Torcuill from a distance

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    Daliburgh, Isle of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS8 5SS

    Isle of North Uist

    Download the Uist Unearthed app and discover more about this mastery of Iron Age drystone engineering. How were brochs roofed? Play the Build a Broch game to learn more about this archaeological debate.

    Add Uist Unearthed - Location D - Dùn Torcuill to your Itinerary

  3. Cill Donnain pannoramic photo in machair land
    Interior of Cill Donnain with a fire lit
    Cill Donnain viewed through phone app
    Virtual Cill Donnain up close
    Uist Unearthed signpost
    Cill Donnain pannoramic photo in machair land
    Interior of Cill Donnain with a fire lit
    Cill Donnain viewed through phone app
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    Uist Unearthed signpost

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    Daliburgh, Isle of South Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS8 5SS

    Isle of South Uist

    Download the Uist Unearthed app and step back 2000 years ago, to explore Cill Donnain Iron Age wheelhouse. Duck inside Cill Donnain’s impressively corbelled drystone cells: what will you discover inside?

    Add Uist Unearthed - Location B - Cill Donnain to your Itinerary

  4. Virtual Dun an Sticir from a distance
    Uist Unearthed signpost in front of loch
    A fire lit inside the Dun
    Dun an Sticir from loch edge
    Uist Unearthed signpost in front of ruins
    The Dun from a distance
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    Virtual Dun an Sticir from a distance
    Uist Unearthed signpost in front of loch
    A fire lit inside the Dun
    Dun an Sticir from loch edge
    Uist Unearthed signpost in front of ruins
    The Dun from a distance
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    Daliburgh, Isle of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS8 5SS

    Isle of North Uist

    Download the Uist Unearthed app and discover two sites in one at Dùn an Sticir! Watch the animation about the downfall of one of Dùn an Sticir’s most dastardly residents, created by the pupils of Sgoil Uibhist a Tuath!

    Add Uist Unearthed -Location E - Dùn an Sticir to your Itinerary

  5. Cladh Hallan overhead
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    Cladh Hallan overhead
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    Daliburgh, Isle of South Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS8 5SS

    Isle of South Uist

    Download the Uist Unearthed app and step back 3500 years ago to explore conjoined Bronze Age roundhouses nestled in the Daliburgh machair.

    Add Uist Unearthed - Location A - Cladh Hallan Roundhouses to your Itinerary

  6. Address

    Carinish, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5HN

    Isle Of North Uist

    250 metres from the main road (which itself dissects the remains of a stone circle at NF 833602), on top of a small hillock, lie the remains of a once spectacular long cairn with a horned facade at its eastern end

    Add Carabhat Barp to your Itinerary

  7. Address

    Amhuinnsuidh, Isle Of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS3 3AR

    Isle Of Harris

    Well preserved Beehive sheilings

    Add Beehive Sheilings to your Itinerary

  8. Address

    Borve, Isle Of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS3 3HT

    Isle Of Harris

    Remains of an Iron Age broch at NG032 940 near the village of Borve.

    Add Iron Age Broch (Dun Bhurigh) to your Itinerary

  9. Address

    Borve, Isle Of Barra, Outer Hebrides, HS9 5XR

    Isle Of Barra

    This site was investigated by Channel 4's Time Team in May 2007. Amongst other remains, a well-preserved Iron Age wheelhouse was uncovered, and nearby, a group of earlier roundhouses of Bronze Age date.

    Add Allathasdal to your Itinerary

  10. Address

    Bornish, Isle Of South Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS8 5SA

    Isle Of South Uist

    The broch of Dùn Mhulan was inhabited during the Iron Age. This large tower-like house was built around 150 BC, originally on an island within a freshwater loch, long before the open sea had broken through.

    Add Dun Mhulan to your Itinerary

  11. Address

    New Tolsta, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0NN

    Isle Of Lewis

    This striking pinnacle of rock can only be accessed with great care from the south, via a series of small plateau's and eventually a narrow ledge, which runs into a defended entrance. The terraces beyond this have at least five structures upon them.

    Add Dùn Othail to your Itinerary

  12. Address

    Bentangaval, Isle Of Barra, Outer Hebrides, HS9 5XN

    Isle Of Barra

    Neolithic people settled here around 4000 BC and built an artificial platform behind a terrace wall. A later blackhouse stands on part of this platform, but behind it, Neolithic remains were found almost undisturbed.

    Add Allt Easdal to your Itinerary

  13. Address

    Ormiclate, Isle Of South Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS8 5SB

    Isle Of South Uist

    An Carra Standing Stone is one of the tallest standing stone in the Southern Isles at 17ft high.

    Add An Carra Standing Stone to your Itinerary

  14. Dun Carloway Broch - Rachel Keenan
    Dun Carloway Broch by David Martin
    Dun Carloway Broch
    Dun Carloway Broch - Rachel Keenan
    Dun Carloway Broch by David Martin
    Dun Carloway Broch

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    Carloway, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9AA

    Isle Of Lewis

    This is the best preserved and most visited broch in the Outer Hebrides. It occupies a low hilltop with commanding views across the seaways to the south and west.

    Add Dun Carloway Broch (Dùn Chàrlabhaigh) and Visitor Centre to your Itinerary

  15. Address

    Sollas, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5BS

    Isle Of North Uist

    The Udal is thought to have been occupied from the Neolithic Age right up to the early 20th Century and is one of the most important archaeological sites in the UK.

    Add Udal Peninsula to your Itinerary

  16. Address

    Sollas, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5BX

    Isle Of North Uist

    Vallay is a beautiful desserted tidal island and is accessible at low tide from Sollas. Tidal information is available from the Tourist Information Centre in Lochmaddy.

    Add Vallay Island (Balaigh) to your Itinerary

  17. Address

    Tigharry, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5DE

    Isle Of North Uist

    At this site, situated on the southern slope of the hill, lie the remains of a Neolithic chambered cairn, much of which has been re-modelled as a wheelhouse in the Iron Age.

    Add Cleitreabhal Chambered Cairn/Wheelhouse to your Itinerary

  18. Address

    Langass, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5HA

    Isle Of North Uist

    Barpa Langais is a neolithic chambered cairn or tomb.

    Add Barpa Langais to your Itinerary

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