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Landmark South Uist

Bornais Viking House Mound

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Norse settlement mounds on the South Uist machair, with an on-site QR code for the Outer Hebrides Unearthed app

Bornais (Bornish) is a group of settlement mounds on the machair of South Uist, about a 30-minute walk along the machair from Cill Donnain (Kildonan). Canmore records Norse houses here, and the mounds were the site of a large Viking Age settlement that included a substantial hall.

The site is Location C on the Outer Hebrides Unearthed app: scan the QR code on site to see a reconstruction of the hall. There is limited parking at the end of the track; watch for rabbit burrows and keep to the thin path through the crops in summer.

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Bornais, Isle of South Uist HS8 5SA

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