Saddle Island is part of the Red Bay UNESCO site, a 16th-century Basque whaling station.
On the island are the locations of a number of former tryworks sites and of cooperages.
In two places, there are broken ceramic roofing tiles indicating the locations of Basque buildings.
There is also a cemetery from which samples of clothing were obtained so that reconstructions can be displayed in the museum on the mainland.
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