From machair to mountains : archaeological survey and excavation in South Uist
2012
Books, Manuscripts
Main title:
From machair to mountains : archaeological survey and excavation in South Uist / edited by Mike Parker Pearson.
Author:
Imprint:
Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, c2012.
Collation:
p. cm.
Series:
Sheffield environmental and archaeological research campaign in the Hebrides ; v. 4
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Part I. Survey -- The machair survey / Mike Parker Pearson -- The blacklands survey : Cill Donnain and Gearraidh Bhailteas townships / Andrew Fleming -- The mountains survey : Loch Aoineart / John Moreland -- The chambered cairns of South Uist / Vicki Cummings, Cole Henley and Niall Sharples -- Duns, brochs and crannogs : Medieval use / John Raven -- The shielings survey : central South Uist / John Raven -- Upland settlement in southern South Uist / Rachel Grahame -- Part II. Excavation -- Loch a' Choire Neolithic settlement / Cole Henley -- Early Bronze Age Settlements at Machair Mheadhanach and Cill Donnain / Mike Hamilton and Niall Sharples -- The Beaker-period and Early Bronze Age settlement at Sligeanach, Cill Donnain / Niall Sharples -- Excavations of an Iron Age islet settlement in Upper Loch Bornish / Pete Marshall and Mike Parker Pearson -- Excavations on Aisgernis and Frobost machair / Mike Parker Pearson -- Excavations at Cille Donnain church / Mike Parker Pearson -- Excavations at Medieval Gearraidh Bhailteas (Garryvaltos), Milton / James Symonds -- Excavations at A Beinn na Mhic Aongheis (the Hill of the Son of Angus), Bornais / Mike Parker Pearson, Pete Marshall and Helen Smith -- Excavation of early modern, early historic and prehistoric sites in Kirkidale / John Moreland -- Part III. Historical and Geographical Studies -- Locheynort (Loch Aoineart) in the historical period / Gill MacLean -- The ethnohistory of Hebridean agriculture / Helen Smith -- Part IV. Conclusion -- Settlement, agriculture and society in South Uist before the Clearances / Mike Parker Pearson -- Appendix -- English-Gaelic glossary of place-names.
ISBN:
18421745179781842174517
Dewey class:
936.114
LC class:
DA880.S75
Local class:
936.114
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1619587