Monument record 670 - SIDHEAN A PHIOBAIRE, DALIBURGH, SOUTH UIST

NF72SW 4 734 214.

See also NF72SW 10.

(Area NF 734 214) At Sithean a Phiobaire (the piper's fairy hill) near Daliburgh, South Uist, a wheelhouse was removed and the stone used to build a wall round the old graveyard at Hallan. Ring-headed pin(s) dated to between AD. 100-200 were found in the midden, which also contained large quantities of winkle shells. Lethbridge (T C Lethbridge 1952 and 1928) illustrates iron and bone pins and pottery from the site. Wedderspoon (J Wedderspoon 1915) notes that a large boulder,with a basin-shaped cavity, was removed to Askernish,(NF 736 239) He also notes a midden southwards along the machar towards Kilpheder. It extended 20 yds. northwards, until it was lost in a sandhill, from the old shore line on the north side of a muddy basin, about two acres in extent, and known locally as the Old Loch. The midden yielded two hammer stones, several horn pins, broken bone needles, pottery with herring-bone markings, etc. (Possibly an aisled round-house)
T C Lethbridge 1928 and 1952; J Wedderspoon 1915.

The sites of this wheelhouse and associated middens were not located. Visited by OS (W D J) 6 May 1965.

In note for site 59: This sandhilll has been quarried and there is no trace of this archaeological site.
Parker Pearson and Sharples

Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N, Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist (Unpublished document). SWE41170.

J Wedderspoon, 1906-12b, Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club, 327-8, 330 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7658.

T C Lethbridge, 1928, Archaeol Cambrensis, 179 illust. (Bibliographic reference). SWE12993.

T C Lethbridge, 1952, Proc Prehist Soc, 176, 184 figs. 5, 6, 8 (Bibliographic reference). SWE4035.