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- known to be 1,260 cleitean on Hirta and a further 170 on the other St Kilda-group islands. The outlying island of Boreray has the Cleitean MacPhàidein, a...
- in 1930. The islands house a unique form of stone structure known as cleitean. A cleit is a stone storage hut or bothy; while many still exist, they...
- islands to have a summit over 1,000 feet (300 metres). Boreray has the Cleitean MacPhàidein, a "cleit village" of three small bothies used regularly during...
- maintain life for long on this precipitous crag although there are 78 storage cleitean and a small bothy used by the native St Kildan fowlers in the summer. A...
- no fewer than 78 storage cleitean on Stac an Armin and a small bothy, built by the St Kildans. Martin describes these cleitean as "pyramids" and wrote...
- grinders and Skaill knives found in the Village Bay bee-hive shaped storage cleitean. Uncertain date between 3500 and 1500 BC. (P, S) 3000–2500 Westray At Links...