Site Event/Activity record EWE39 - Dun Vulan, South Uist, Western Isles

Location

Location Dun Vulan, Bornish, South Uist
Grid reference NF 7140 2981 (point)
Map sheet NF72NW
Island South Uist
Parish SOUTH UIST, Western Isles

Technique(s)

Organisation

University of Sheffield

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

Excavation of broch at Dun Vulan, as part of Sheffield University's SEARCH project, between 1991 and 1996. Work concentrated on the post-broch occupation, with the exception of the excavation of an intramural cell, and excavation outwith the wall of the broch, on the shore line.

Sources/Archives (8)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N. 1991. Dun Vulan, Bornish, South Uist.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N. 1992. Dun Vulan, South Uist, Western Isles: An interim report on the 1992 excavations.
  • --- Article in serial: Mike Parker-Pearson, Niall Sharples & Jacqui Mulville. 1996. Antiquity: Brochs and Iron Age society: a reappraisal.
  • --- Article in serial: Simon Gilmour and Murray Cook. 1998. Antiquity: Excavations at Dun Vulan:a reinterpretation of the reappraised Iron Age.
  • --- Monograph: Mike Parker-Pearson & Niall Sharples. 1999. Between Land and Sea: Excavations at Dun Vulan, South Uist.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N. 1993. Dun Vulan, South Uist, Western Isles: an interim report of the 1993 excavations.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N. 1995. Dun Vulan excavations 1995, South Uist, Western Isles.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: Parker Pearson, Sharples and Mulville. 1999. Excavations at Dun Vulan: a correction. vol 73, no 279.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • DUN VULAN, BORNISH, SOUTH UIST (Monument)

Record last edited

Jun 13 2003 4:21PM

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