East Uist

This is an extract from my new book Travel Sights Travel Guides don’t mention. This book describes a large number of little known tourist sights from around the world. A book for the discerning traveller who has been everywhere else.

East Uist is a small island, just to the West of South Uist is a mysterious place. In amongst the peat bogs, crow-filled craggy peaks and small lochans, archaeologists have found evidence of stone circles and cromlechs that were built on artificial platforms about two inches in height. The theory is that the people of East Uist were practising their skills gradually and learning from their mistakes on smaller projects, before heading off to the Orkney Islands where much larger and higher platforms were required.