Monument record 557 - CEANN EAR, MONACH ISLANDS

NF66SW 2 64 62.

Martin (M Martin 1884), writing in 1703, refers to a 'stone chest' found on the Heisker Islands 'having an earthen pitcher in it which was full of bones'.
When Beveridge (E Beveridge 1911) explored the area he found a cist containing human bones near the NW corner of Ceann Ear, close to which was a kitchen-midden, and he was informed of a group of six others upon the same island.
Megaw and Simpson (J V S Megaw and D D A Simpson 1963) list Beveride's finds as cists ('not certainly "short"') and Martin's discovery as closely paralleled by Childe's Type C graves (V G Childe 1946).
M Martin 1884; E Beveridge 1911; J V S Megaw and D D A Simpson 1963; V G Childe 1946.

The cists and midden were not located.
Visited by OS (J T T) 18 June 1965.

Martin Martin, 1695a, A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland c. 1695, 60 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5082.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 230, 269 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

V G Childe, 1946c, Scotland before the Scots: being the Rhind lectures 1944, 133-4 (Bibliographic reference). SWE845.

J V S and D D A Megaw and Simp, 1960-1, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 64 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5565.