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The Hebridean Iron Age: Twenty Years' Research By D.W. Harding: This paper reviews progress in Atlantic Scottish Iron Age studies over the past twenty years, with particular reference to a long-term programme of fieldwork in west Lewis undertaken by the University of Edinburgh. It deprecates the survival and revival of older conventional models for defining and dating the major field monuments of the period and region in the face of accumulating evidence for the origins of Atlantic roundhouses in the mid-first millennium BC, and discusses important new evidence for the first-millennium AD sequence of occupation and material culture. The material assemblages of the Hebridean Iron Age are contrasted with the impoverished and relatively aceramic material culture of lowland Scotland and northern England, and the importance of the western seaways in later prehistoric and early historic times as a distinctive cultural region is emphasised. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Hob 19th September 2005ce Edited 30th August 2007ce

Cladh Hallan Round Houses (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) — Links

Cracking the puzzle of the Cladh Hallan Bodies This is a YouTube video of Kerri Brown explaining about recent DNA sampling of the Cladh Hallan burial. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Kammer 23rd September 2011ce

Cuithe Heillanish (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes

Possible standing stone in the S.W. corner of Vatersay . http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/21403/details/vatersay+cuithe+heillanish/ Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by tiompan 7th September 2011ce

Cuithe Heillanish (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images (click to view fullsize)

Posted by tiompan 7th September 2011ce

Cladh Hallan Round Houses (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) — Images

Posted by tiompan 22nd August 2011ce

St. Kilda — News

Prehistoric finds on remote St Kilda's Boreray isle The remains of a permanent settlement which could date back to the Iron Age has been uncovered on a remote Scottish island, according to archaeologists. It was previously thought Boreray in the St Kilda archipelago was only visited by islanders to hunt seabirds and gather wool from sheep. Archaeologists have now recorded an extensive agricultural field system and terraces for cultivating crops. They have also found an intact stone building buried under soil and turf. More here... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-13753643 Comments (4)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by 1speed 17th June 2011ce

Pobuill Fhinn (Stone Circle) — Images

Posted by tiompan 8th June 2011ce

Airigh nam Bidearan (Stone Row / Alignment) — Images

Posted by tiompan 22nd May 2011ce

Clach an Trushal (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Folklore

Leabhar na Feinne (1872) by J F Campbell. This book of Gaelic ballads includes one called 'Laoidh an Truisealaich' . It is "an imaginary conversation with a great standing Stone" and "Murray, the reciter, asserts that it was the custom in his youth to recite this 'Lay of the Truiseal Stone,' near the butt of Lewis in Shawbost." It's quite long so if your Gaelic is up to it you may read it at http://www.archive.org/stream/leabharnafeinne00campgoog#page/n239/mode/1up Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Rhiannon 30th April 2011ce