Monument record 848 - BALESHARE, NORTH UIST

NF76SE 20 centred 78 61.

A mound 200 yards in circumference and 25 ft high is situated on the machair on the west side of Baleshare Island, separated from the beach by a considerable stretch of sand. Irregular in outline, it is broken up into a number of semi-detached knolls, possibly by wind action. One of these contains, in addition to a number of quite modern grave-mounds, a network of stone-lined enclosures varying in size but with the general appearance of a group of cists with the covers removed. The stones, set on edge, project a few inches above the turf.
The site generally revealed numerous human bones (presumably from the broken-down cists) in addition to articles of stone, deerhorn, wrought bone and pottery, as well as kitchen-midden and animal remains.
J Wedderspoon 1915.

This mound was not located anywhere on the west side of Baleshare: the authority may be referring to Sloc Sabhaidh (NF76SE 19).
Visited by OS (J T T) 1 June 1965.

See also NF 76 SE 19.

J Wedderspoon, 1906-12b, Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club, 320-5 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7658.

I Armit, 1991b, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 211-12 illus 4 (Bibliographic reference). SWE24816.