Camas Uig (Uig Bay) is a bay on the west coast of the
Isle of Lewis, in the
Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The
Lewis Chessmen were discovered in the dunes behind the beach.
Camas Uig contains a variety of small islets including Fraoch Eilean, Leac Holm, Sgeir a' Chàis, Sgeir Liath, Sgeir Sheilibhig, Tom and Tolm.
Camas Uig is in the
parish of Uig and is part of the
South Lewis, Harris and North Uist National Scenic Area.
In 1831, the 12th-century
Lewis Chessmen were discovered in a small stone structure in the dunes behind the beach near
Ardroil
Ardroil ( gd, Eadar Dhà Fhadhail) is a village on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Ardroil is within the parish of Uig.
Geography
Ardroil is more accurately the name of a fertile machair district by the expanse of Uig Bay bet ...
. Two large wooden chessmen, carved by Stephen Hayward, stand outside a museum on the
machair
A machair (; sometimes machar in English) is a fertile low-lying grassy plain found on part of the northwest coastlines of Ireland and Scotland, in particular the Outer Hebrides. The best examples are found on North and South Uist, Harri ...
at Ardroil, near where the hoard was found.
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Isle of Lewis
Bays of Scotland
Beaches of the Outer Hebrides
Viking Age sites in Scotland
Landforms of the Outer Hebrides