Monument record 1152 - EILEAN HOLSTA ISLET, OBAN SKIBINISH, NORTH UIST

NF87NW 11 8357 7512.

(Area: NF 835 751) A tidal islet which was once evidently walled round its edge is situated near the shore 100 yards SE of Eilean Holsta (NF87NW 10). Upon its summit, at the east end of a comparatively modern ruin, is a thick slab of stone embedded on end showing three cup-marks on its irregular upper surface.
E Beveridge 1911.

Apart from the modern ruin mentioned above, and a short stretch of wall along the SE side of the islet, 10.0m long by 1.0m wide by 0.6m high, which is probably contemporary, there are no definite remains of a wall on or around this islet.
The cupmarked stone, at NF 8357 7512, measures 0.8m x 0.6m x 0.3m, and is as described above.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 20 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 221, 275 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 56-7, No. 182 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.