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MacRitchie, David, 1861-1925

"Fians, Fairies and Picts"

farlos or smokehole._
"One of a group of three at the garry of Aird Mhor, close to the shore
and near the mouth of Loch Resort, Uig, Lewis. This compound _both_ has
evidently been intended for two related families ... but there is no
interior communication between the dwellings." (_Op. cit. p. 144._)]
PLATE IX.--_Compound "Both" situated near the above._
(From Plate XIV. of Vol. III. of _Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland_, First Series.)

[Illustration: PLATE X.
GROUND PLAN AND SECTIONAL VIEW OF SEMI-SUBTERRANEAN _BOTH_ AND
UNDERGROUND GALLERY, MEAL NA H-UAMH, MOL A DEAS, HUISHNISH, ISLAND OF
SOUTH UIST.]
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 archaeologists, 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.


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