Monument record 690 - CEARDACH MHOR, LON MOR, SOUTH UIST

NF73NE 7 7557 3924.

(NF 7557 3924) Ceardach Mhor (NAT)
OS 6'map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

A low hill standing above the machar which yielded potsherds, bone and midden material in 1956.
Information given orally by R Ritchie (inspector of MofPBW) to OS 20 April 1965.

Ceardach Mhor is an amorphous grass-covered hillock 2.0m high, composed of sand with a few stones visible on the top. Potsherds and midden material can be seen in rabbit scrapes.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 14 May 1965.

An apparent isolated grass covered oval settlement mound located adjacent the loch outlet. Beyond the site are substantial machair dunes that raise the level of the land to the north & east. Rabbit burrow activity on the mound show numerous stones beneath the surface. A small amount of midden evidence (whelk shells, burnt & unburnt animal bone) and occaissional ceramic fragments have been brought to the surface from the burrowing. Slag fragments were idenfied 10m to the ESE of the mound, along a recent plough line.
K.Murphy (Arch Service CnES) 26/06/2025