Monument record 1122 - EILEANN SCALASTER, NORTH UIST

NF86SW 6 8094 6113.

(NF 8094 6113) There are the remains of a circular dun, c. 26ft in diameter enclosed by a wall nearly 5ft thick, on the N end of EIleann Scalaster, an islet in the tidal sound between Baleshare and Carinish. What is apparently an entrance on the E runs inwards for 10ft between parallel walls 30 inches apart. Potsherds were found here.
E Beveridge 1911.

The vague outlines of a D-shaped structure, probably a dun, which measures c. 10.0m by c. 8.0m.
The wall appears to have an average thickness of c. 2.3m in the south side, with an external height of c. 1.3m. There is a possible entrance in the east side.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (W D J) 13 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 181 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 63-4, No. 203 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.