Monument record 560 - CLADH NA BLEIDE, MONACH ISLANDS

NF66SW 5 6447 6233.

(NF 6447 6233) Cladh na Bleide (NR) Burial Ground (Disused)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Faint traces of an old burial ground, called Cladh na Bleide, can still be seen upon Ceann Ear. This has been almost certainly associated with a former chapel, but no tradition seems to remain, although a slight wall is visible at the west base of a sandhill. This was evidently the find-spot of a bronze Celtic ring-headed pin (E Beveridge 1911 and PSAS 1859), now in the NMAS. (S Grieg 1940) (FC 138)
E Beveridge 1911; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1859; S Grieg 1940.

No trace of this burial ground or of a chapel is to be seen.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (W D J) 18 June 1965.

PSAS, 1854-7, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 176 illust. 176 (Bibliographic reference). SWE10033.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 291 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

S Grieg, 1940, Viking Antiquities in Scotland, 198-9 fig. 94 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2901.

T Fanning, 1983, Some aspects of the bronze ringed pin in Scotland, 339, No. 36 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2007.