Monument record 1049 - TOBAR ALASDAIR, BEN LANGASS, NORTH UIST

NF86NW 10 8450 6537.

(Area : NF 846 654) A group of three cup markekd stone slabs lies upon the east slope of Beinn Laghass, no far from the summit. The larger pair lie one above the other, but separated towards the west by a smaller stone fixed between them, while the third slab lies close to the east at a somewhatlower level.
The group is marked on Johnson's map (J Thomson 1831) as 'Baishune's Grave' (as far as can be deciphered). The two larger slabs are about 8ft long and beneath is a distinct hollow with evidence of lesser stones serving as supports at both ends.
Five yards too the east there is another group called 'Leac Alasdair', consisting of a large boulder 12ft by 12ft, at an angle of 45 degrees, presumably a natural position. Close to its south base there is a slab 7ft 8ins long with a row of thress stones at its west side, set on edge or end, and immediately to the east there is a slab 10ft long, showing a hollow beneath. There is said to be a well called Tobar Alasdair near Leac Alasdair, but doubtless the source of a small burn 20 yards to the SE represents this.
E Beveridge 1911; J Thomson 1831.

NF 8450 6537. The various stone described above are glacial erratics. The cup marks are natural weathering: the well was not located.
Visited by OS (J T T) 10 June 1965.

The stones are natural, but may have been split deliberately - possibly a quarry site for slabs. The cup marks and grooves joining them are artificial.
MML 5.10.06

J Thomson, 1831, The Atlas of Scotland, Western Isles, Sheet No. 24 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3419.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 257, 274 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.