Site of an Iron Age wheelhouse on the machair at Kilpheder, South Uist, excavated in 1952; little now visible
The Kilpheder (Cille Pheadair) wheelhouse was an Iron Age aisled roundhouse on the machair near the southern end of South Uist's west coast. Excavated in 1952, it had an internal diameter of 8.8 metres with 11 radial piers; finds included pottery, bone and stone tools and a Romano-British enamelled bronze brooch, and the building was abandoned about AD 200. Little now remains to be seen at the site.
A Pictish-period burial cairn found eroding on the beach at Cille Pheadair in 1998 was reconstructed in the grounds of Kildonan Museum in 2003.
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