PLATE X.--_"Both" and Underground Gallery at Meall na h-Uamh,
Huishnish, South Uist._

(From Plate XXXIII. of Vol. VII. of _Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland_, First Series.)

"I have next to notice," says Captain Thomas (_op. cit._, p. 164),
"that form of bo'h, Pict's house, or clochan, whichever name may be
adopted by archæologists, to which a hypogeum or subterranean
gallery is attached.... [The present example] is in South Uist,
about half a mile inland from Moll a Deas (South Beach); and the
Moll is about one mile and a half to the south of Husinish
(Husness, _i.e._, Houseness). The site of the bo'h is called Meall
na [h-] Uamh, or Cave Lump [more correctly, the Mound of the Cave,
or 'Weem.'] It consists of a partly excavated oval dwelling chamber
(_a_), 7 feet by 14 feet on the floor; the dome roof has fallen in;
there are two _cuiltean_, or niches in the wall. A low curved
subterranean passage (_b_), about 2½ feet square and 20 feet in
length, leads into an elongated bee-hive chamber (_c_), 13 feet by
5 feet, and 6¾ feet high; from thence an entrance (_d_), 2 feet by
2 feet, admits to a small circular chamber or cell (_e_), 5 feet in
diameter and 5 feet high. The main passage inclines downwards, so
that the floor of the second chamber (_c_) is nearly 3 feet lower
than that of the first (_a_); and that of the inner one (_e_) a
foot below the second (_c_)."


[Illustration: PLATE XI.