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From machair to mountains : archaeological survey and excavation in South Uist
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ISBN: 1842178873 1842174517 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books,

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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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A late iron age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides : excavations at Mound 1, Bornais, South Uist
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ISBN: 1842179276 1842179292 184217469X 9781842179277 9781842179291 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford : Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books ; David Brown Book Co.,

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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

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