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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