Cladh Hallan is a Bronze Age settlement in South Uist and it is the only location in the UK where prehistoric mummies have been found. Cladh Hallan was probably inhabited from 2000 BC on.
Cladh Hallan’s roundhouse settlement followed a long sequence of earlier activity that started at the beginning of the Bronze Age. The deep machair sand was initially cultivated in the Beaker period around 2000 BC, with fields criss-crossed by ard-ploughing. (The Past.com)
In 2001 a team of archaeologists found the remains of what are believed to be two mummified Bronze Age bodies, buried under the floor of a Roundhouse at Cladh Hallan. One of them was a male who had died around 1600 BC and another a female who had died around 1300 BC. (Isle of South UIst)
Using the Uist Unearthed App you can even have a look at how the round houses might have looked thousands of years ago. AR will bring them back today.
Continue through the dunes and the machair and you will arrive at the most beautiful beach going on for miles.
Daliburgh beach
View towards Barra.
