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A Norse Farmstead in the Outer Hebrides Excavations at Mound 3, Bornais, Sou…
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SHARPLES,Niall

This volume examines South Uist, a small island in the soutern half of the Outer Hebrides. In the middle of the island lies the township of Bornais. This covers a particularly flat area of land which means that the three mounds can be seen all the more clearly. These mounds have been identified as being from the Viking period, with evidence of pre-Viking habitation at the site coming from Iron …

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A Late Iron Age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides Excavations at Mound 1, Born…
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SHARPLES,Niall

The settlement at Bornais consists of a complex of mounds which protrude from the relatively flat machair plain in the township of Bornais on the island of South Uist. This sandy plain has proved an attractive settlement from the Beaker period onwards; it appears to have been intensively occupied from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Norse period. Mound 1 was the original location for sett…

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