Source/Archive record SWE41221 - Machair Bharabhais: A Landscape through Time

Title Machair Bharabhais: A Landscape through Time
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Date/Year 2010

Abstract/Summary

This paper provides a preliminary analytical summary of the results of post-excavation work underway on a series of archaeological surveys and excavations on the western coast of the Isle of Lewis, on the machair of Barabhas township. During the excavations, which were carried out on and off between 1976 and 2001, we sampled settlements, ritual sites, and landscape features dating from between the Early Bronze Age and the Norse Period, including a Beaker settlement and a Viking Age or Norse settlement, within an area suffering from severe aeolian erosion. Analyses of the finds yield a picture of the development of the landscape, both ritual and subsistence, over a period of at least 2500 years. Special

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Author(s): Trevor Cowie and Mary MacLeod Rivett Source: Journal of the North Atlantic, 9():99-107. Published By: Eagle Hill Institute

Location

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

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Mar 4 2019 4:19PM

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