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1 online resource (441 pages) |
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List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The machair survey; 3 The blacklands survey: Cill Donnain and Gearraidh Bhailteas townships; 4 The mountains survey: Loch Aoineart; 5 The chambered cairns of South Uist; 6 Duns, brochs and crannogs: Medieval use; 7 The shielings survey: central South Uist; 8 Upland settlement in southern South Uist; 9 Loch a' Choire Neolithic settlement; 10 Early Bronze Age settlements at Machair Mheadhanach and Cill Donnain; 11 The Beaker-period and Early Bronze Age settlement at Sligeanach, Cill Donnain |
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12 Excavations of an Iron Age islet settlement in Upper Loch Bornish13 Excavations on Aisgernis and Frobost machair; 14 Excavations at Cille Donnain church; 15 Excavations at Medieval Gearraidh Bhailteas (Garryvaltos), Milton; 16 Excavations at A Beinn na Mhic Aongheis (the Hill of the Son of Angus), Bornais; 17 Excavation of early modern, early historic and prehistoric sites in Kirkidale; 18 Locheynort (Loch Aoineart) in the historical period; 19 The ethnohistory of Hebridean agriculture; 20 Settlement, agriculture and society in South Uist before the Clearances |
| Summary |
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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Appendix English-Gaelic glossary of place-names |
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Archaeological surveying -- Scotland -- South Uist
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Scotland -- South Uist
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Archaeology and history -- Scotland -- South Uist
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Social Science -- Archaeology.
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Antiquities
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Archaeological surveying
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Archaeology and history
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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South Uist (Scotland) -- Antiquities
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Scotland -- South Uist
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781842178874 |
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1842178873 |
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