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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…

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…

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.

Virtual Bornais from a distance

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

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…

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  1. Cladh Hallan overhead
    Virtual Cladh Hallan
    Uist Unearthed App - Clad Hallan
    Child posing in front of virtual Cladh Hallan
    Uist Unearthed App
    Lady looking at site on phone app
    Virtual Cladh Hallan from phone app
    Uist Unearthed signpost
    Cladh Hallan overhead
    Virtual Cladh Hallan
    Uist Unearthed App - Clad Hallan
    Child posing in front of virtual Cladh Hallan
    Uist Unearthed App
    Lady looking at site on phone app
    Virtual Cladh Hallan from phone app
    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 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

  2. 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
    Virtual Cill Donnain up close
    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

  3. 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
    Uist Unearthed signpost with the Dun in the background
    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
    Uist Unearthed signpost with the Dun in the background

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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

  4. Virtual Bornais from a distance
    Group of children next to virtual hut with fire burning inside
    Virtual Bornais with person standing next to it
    Uist Unearthed signpost
    Virtual Bornais closer
    Virtual Bornais from a distance
    Group of children next to virtual hut with fire burning inside
    Virtual Bornais with person standing next to it
    Uist Unearthed signpost
    Virtual Bornais closer

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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

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

  6. Address

    Newton, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5AZ

    Isle Of North Uist

    The remains of a stronghold occupy the whole of a tiny islet in the middle of the tidal loch of Sticir. It is connected by a stone-built causeway to a slightly larger islet which in turn is connected to the shore by two stone causewaays.

    Add Dun an Sticer to your Itinerary

  7. Address

    Grimsay, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5HY

    Isle Of North Uist

    Remains of a wheelhouse dating back to the iron age can be seen in Grimsay.

    Add Grimsay Wheelhouse to your Itinerary

  8. 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

  9. Caisteal a'Mhorair Sea Stack at Garry Beach, Isle of Lewis
    Sea Stacks at Garry Beach, Isle of Lewis
    Caisteal a'Mhorair Sea Stack at Garry Beach, Isle of Lewis
    Sea Stacks at Garry Beach, Isle of Lewis

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

    Isle Of Lewis

    Caisteal a' Mhorair (the Castle of the Nobleman) is one of the few probably medieval 'castles' in the Isle of Lewis.

    Add Caisteal a' Mhorair to your Itinerary

  10. Address

    Garrabost, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0PN

    Isle Of Lewis

    Clach Ghlas (NF 5281 3340) is an enigmatic triangular standing stone 1.7 metres high, standing in the centre of a mound 2 metres high and 30 metres long and partly surrounded by a ditch.

    Add Clach Ghlas to your Itinerary

  11. Address

    Callanish, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9DY

    Isle Of Lewis

    An outer ring now with 8 standing stones and 5 fallen ones, with an inner group of 4 distinctive stones.

    Add Calanais III (Cnoc Fhillibhir Bheag) to your Itinerary

  12. Address

    South Dell, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0SP

    Isle Of Lewis

    North Rona is an uninhabited, isolated island 44 miles in the open sea north of the Butt of Lewis, and is seldom visited except by occasional private vessels. But its isolation has preserved the archaeological sites of the island in a relatively undi

    Add North Rona to your Itinerary

  13. Stac a' Chaisteal

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    Garenin, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9AL

    Isle Of Lewis

    Stac a' Chaisteal is is a dramatic, pinnacle shaped stack, surmounted by a plateau complete with what has clearly been a substantial building, joined to the adjacent cliffs by a knife edge of rock. The stack is too dangerous to access.

    Add Stac a' Chaisteal to your Itinerary

  14. 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

  15. Address

    Eoligarry, Isle Of Barra, Outer Hebrides, HS9 5YD

    Isle Of Barra

    The chapel at Cille Bharra was perhaps founded as early as the 7th century AD, being named after St Barr (or Finnbar) who was ordained c AD 600.

    Add Cille Bharra to your Itinerary

  16. Address

    Balemartin, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5DQ

    Isle Of North Uist

    Kilpheder Cross

    Add Kilpheder (Cille Pheadair) Cross to your Itinerary

  17. Address

    Berneray, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5BD

    Isle Of North Uist

    Close to the ferry terminal lie the slight remains of a burial cairn, probably dating to about 700 AD.

    Add Aird ma-Rhuibhe to your Itinerary

  18. Address

    Northton, Isle Of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS3 3JA

    Isle Of Harris

    This area, from the township of Taobh Tuath to the headland of Rubh' an Teampaill, has numerous sites of archaeological significance.

    Add Northon Temple (Rubh' an Teampaill) to your Itinerary

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