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South Uist in the Outer Hebrides has some of the best preserved archaeological remains within Britain and even further afield. Three distinct ecological zones - grassland machair plain, peaty blackland and mountains - each bear the imprint of human occupation over many millennia. The machair strip, long uninhabited, is filled with hundreds of settlement mounds, occupied from the Beaker period 4,000 years ago until a few centuries ago. The blacklands bear the traces of past farming practices as well as the remains of medieval settlements, more recent blackhouses and lochs containing duns, broch
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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
Excavations (Archaeology) --- Farms --- South Uist (Scotland) --- Western Isles (Scotland) --- Antiquities. --- Farmsteads --- Agriculture --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Western Isles, Scot. (Region) --- Outer Hebrides (Scotland) --- Long Islands (Scotland) --- Innsegall (Scotland) --- Isles of the Foreigners (Scotland) --- Sudreyar (Scotland) --- Southern Isles (Scotland) --- Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Scotland) --- Na h-Eileanan Siar (Scotland) --- Western Isles (Eilean Siar) (Scotland) --- Eilean Siar (Scotland) --- Western Isles Islands Area (Scotland) --- Uist, South (Scotland) --- Hebrides (Scotland)
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