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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552996903321

Titolo

A late iron age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides : excavations at Mound 1, Bornais, South Uist / / edited by Niall Sharples ; with contributions by J Bond ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxbow Books

Oakville, Conn., : David Brown Book Co., 2012

ISBN

1-84217-927-6

1-84217-929-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Collana

Cardiff studies in archaeology

Altri autori (Persone)

SharplesNiall M

BondJ (Jerry)

SharplesNiall M.

Disciplina

936.1/14

936.114

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - Scotland - South Uist

Farms - Scotland - South Uist

South Uist (Scotland) Antiquities

Western Isles (Scotland) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A companion volume to A Norse farmstead in the Outer Hebrides : excavation at Mound 3, Bornais, south Uist, edited by Niall Sharples.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Illustrations; Tables; List of Contributors; English-Gaelic glossary of place-names; 1 Bornais and the Iron Age; 2 The Late Iron Age settlement; 3 Norse reoccupation; 4 Comparative analysis of the site assemblage; 5 Chronology; 6 Resource exploitation; 7 Site activities; 8 Discussion; Appendix 1: The context list - N Sharples; Appendix 2: Artefact catalogue - A Clarke, P Macdonald and A Smith; Appendix 3: Flint catalogue - A Pannett; Appendix 4: Catalogue of illustrated pottery - A Lane; Appendix 5: Revisions to the mound 3 chronology - P Marshall; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The settlement at Bornais consists of a complex of mounds which protrude from the relatively flat machair plain in the township of Bornais on the island of South Uist. This sandy plain has proved an attractive settlement from the Beaker period onwards; it appears to



have been intensively occupied from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Norse period. Mound 1 was the original location for settlement in this part of the machair plain; pre-Viking activity of some complexity is present and it is likely that the settlement activity started in the Middle Iron Age, if not earlier. The examination o