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Table of Contents:
1. Introduction (Mike Parker Pearson and Helen Smith) Part I: Survey 2. The machair survey (Mike Parker Pearson) 3. The blacklands survey: Cill Donnain and Gearraidh Bhailteas townships (Andrew Fleming) 4. The mountains survey: Loch Aoineart (John Moreland) 5. The chambered cairns of South Uist (Vicki Cummings, Cole Henley and Niall Sharples) 6. Duns, brochs and crannogs of South Uist (John Raven) 7. The shielings survey: central South Uist (John Raven) 8. Upland settlement in southern South Uist (Rachel Grahame) Part II: Excavation 9. Loch a' Choire Neolithic settlement (Cole Henley) 10 Early Bronze Age Settlements at Machair Meadhanach and Cill Donnain (Mike Hamilton and Niall Sharples) 11. The Beaker-period and Early Bronze Age settlement at Sligeanach, Cill Donnain (Niall Sharples) 12. Excavations of an Iron Age islet settlement in Upper Loch Bornish (Pete Marshall and Mike Parker Pearson) 13. Excavations on Aisgernis and Frobost machair (Mike Parker Pearson) 14. Excavations at Cille Donnain church (Mike Parker Pearson) 15. Excavations at Medieval Gearraidh Bhailteas (Garryvaltos), Milton (James Symonds) 16. Excavations at A Beinn na Mhic Aongheis (the Hill of the Son of Angus), Bornais (Mike Parker Pearson, Pete Marshall and Helen Smith) 17. Excavation of early modern, early historic and prehistoric sites in Kirkidale (John Moreland) Part III: Historical and Geographical Studies 18. Locheynort (Loch Aoineart) in the historical period (Gill MacLean) 19. The ethnohistory of Hebridean agriculture (Helen Smith) Part IV: Conclusion 20. Settlement, agriculture and society in South Uist before the Clearances (Mike Parker Pearson)

Review :
This volume deserves wide readership. It helps define a continuing research agenda for South Uist, thus raising the archaeological profile of these islands. The strength of this book is that, by bringing together the results of survey and excavation, it successfully provides a detailed account and assessment of the archaeology of South Uist which will be invaluable for future researchers. -- Gary Robinson Archaeological Journal Vol. 169


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781842178874
  • Publisher: Oxbow Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxbow Books
  • Sub Title: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in South Uist
  • ISBN-10: 1842178873
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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