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Scotland, Na h-Eileanan Siar

Mealista cleared township and wartime station

Ghost town Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

medieval settlement cleared 1838, WWII radar station

Township in west Lewis on the site of a medieval settlement, cleared in 1838. In the Second World War several hundred people ran wireless and radar installations here, with a cinema and bar, before the area was abandoned again.View source →

Before you go

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