A Norse farmstead in the Outer Hebrides excavations at mound 3, Bornais, South Uist
"The Norse settlement at Bornais on South Uist in the Western Isles was discovered in 1994 and is one of the largest Norse rural settlements known in Britain. Large scale excavations were undertaken between 1994 and 2004 and have demonstrated that the site has potential to transform our underst...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxbow Books
2005, 2005
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| Series: | Cardiff studies in archaeology
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "The Norse settlement at Bornais on South Uist in the Western Isles was discovered in 1994 and is one of the largest Norse rural settlements known in Britain. Large scale excavations were undertaken between 1994 and 2004 and have demonstrated that the site has potential to transform our understanding of settlement in the North Atlantic region. This report provides a background to the work undertaken at Bornais, presents the result of an innovative geophysical survey of the settlement and describes the excavation of mound 3. The report on the excavations forms the bulk of the report and revealed a fourteenth century house and associated corn drying kiln and recovered a large assemblage of fish bones and carbonised plant remains which provide a detailed insight into the economy of the settlement. There is also a thorough analysis of the domestic architecture which includes a consideration of the use of space within the house."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 223 pages illustrations, maps |
| ISBN: | 1782978917 1789258839 |