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A Late Iron Age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides - Excavations at Mound 1, Bornais, South Uist (Hardcover, New)
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A Late Iron Age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides - Excavations at Mound 1, Bornais, South Uist (Hardcover, New)
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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 of the mound 1 deposits provides an important
contribution to our understanding of the Iron Age sequence in the
Atlantic province. The principal contribution comprises the large
quantities of mammal, fish and bird bones, carbonised plant remains
and pottery, which can be accurately dated to a fairly precise and
narrow period in the 1st millennium AD. These are augmented by a
substantial collection of small finds which included distinctive
bone artefacts. The contextual significance of the site is based on
the survival of floor deposits and a burnt-down roof; the floor
deposits can be compared with abandonment and adjacent midden
deposits providing contrasting contextual environments that help to
clarify depositional processes. The burning down of the house and
the excellent preservation of the deposits within it provide an
unparalleled opportunity to examine the timber superstructure of
the building and the layout of the material used by the
inhabitants.
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