_d. Stonebench or Bedplace._

_AB. Line of Section._

_CD. View as represented as restored._]

[Illustration: PLATE VIII.

SECTION AND ELEVATION OF _BOTHAN GEARRAIDH NA H'AIRDE MOIRE_, UIG,
LEWIS, HEBRIDES, AND VIEW OF SAME IF RESTORED.]

PLATES VII. AND VIII.--_"Agglomeration of Bee-Hives" at Uig,
Lewis._

(From Plates XV. and XVI. of Vol. III. of _Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland_, First Series.)

"By far the most singular of all these structures, and probably
unique in the Long Island, is at Gearraidh na h-Airde Moire,
on the shore of Loch Resort. I cannot describe it better than by
bidding you suppose twelve individual bee-hive huts all built
touching each other, with doors and passages from one to the other.
The diameter of this gigantic booth is 46 feet, and [it] is nearly
circular in plan. The height of the doors and passages about 2½
feet; and under the smokehole (_farlos_), in two of the chambers,
the height was 6½ feet.... I am informed that, so late as 1823,
this _both_ was inhabited by four families." (Captain Thomas,
_Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._, vol. iii., p. 139.)