Monument record 88 - Sidhean na h-Iolaire, TIMSGARRY, LEWIS

NB03SE 2 0532 3368.

(Area: 053 335) An irregularly shaped mound of unstratified sand, containing a considerable number of small boulders, lies at Sithean-na-h-Iolaire.
It measures about 60' NE-SW by 40' transversely and rises to a height of 5'.
Human bones have been thrown out from time to time by rabbits burrowing. RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

This mound is a turf-covered sand dune at NB 0532 3368. An excavation by holiday makers has revealed a quantity of closely packed stones which is probably the remains of a cairn about 10.0m in dimater placed upon the summit of the dune. Several pieces of bone, apparently human, are scattered in the excavation but no trace of a cist or chamber has been revealed.
Local tradition asserts that this is the burial place of the crew of a wrecked ship.
Surveyed at 1/10,560
Visited by OS (R L) 28 June 1969.

Human remains including a substantial piece of maxillla, revealed by rabbit-induced erosion during summer 1998. Reported by the cook at the Lodge. MML 5.7.99

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 22, No. 80 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.