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Re-excavation of an Iron Age wheelhouse and earlier structure at Eilean Maleit, North Uist

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dc.creator Armit, Ian
dc.date 2008-11-14T08:41:21Z
dc.date 2008-11-14T08:41:21Z
dc.date 1998
dc.identifier Armit, I. (1998). Re-excavation of an Iron Age wheelhouse and earlier structure at Eilean Maleit, North Uist. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. 128, pp. 255-271.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10454/891
dc.description No
dc.description Excavations were carried out on the tidal islet settlement of Eilean Maleit, previously excavated by Erskine Beveridge in the early part of this century, to test the hypothesis that the site represented a wheelhouse built into an earlier Atlantic roundhouse or broch. It is clear from the re-excavation that the wheelhouse was indeed set into an earlier massive-walled dry stone structure, probably an Atlantic roundhouse but almost certainly not a classic broch tower. The denuded condition of this early structure when the wheelhouse was built suggests that a significant period of time may have elapsed between the occupation of the two structures. Publication of this work is sponsored by Historic Scotland.
dc.language en
dc.relation http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_128/128_255_271.pdf
dc.subject Iron Age
dc.subject Wheelhouse
dc.subject Eilean Maleit
dc.subject North Uist
dc.subject Atlantic Roundhouse
dc.title Re-excavation of an Iron Age wheelhouse and earlier structure at Eilean Maleit, North Uist
dc.type Article


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