| Description | South Uist was clearly home to a thriving Neolithic community. The island is covered in archaeological sites including chambered tombs, Beaker sites, a Bronze Age hoard, roundhouses, brochs, cairns, ogham inscriptions, prehistoric mummies, Viking settlements, medieval longhouses and post-medieval industry, Bornais on South Uist was the largest Viking settlement known in Scotland. It is one of the last remaining strongholds of Scottish Gaelic language. Its inhabitants are known in Gaelic as "Deasaich" (Southerners). |
