From machair to mountains
Subtitle: archaeological survey and excavation in South Uist
By: edited by Mike Parker Pearson
Series: Sheffield environmental and archaeological research campaign in the Hebrides -- v. 4
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; Oakville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781842174517
Subjects: Archaeology and history; Excavations (Archaeology); Archaeological surveying; Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Survey; title: The machair survey / Mike Parker Pearson; title: The blacklands survey : Cill Donnain and Gearraidh Bhailteas townships / Andrew Fleming; title: The mountains survey : Loch Aoineart / John Moreland; title: The chambered cairns of South Uist / Vicki Cummings, Cole Henley and Niall Sharples; title: Duns, brochs and crannogs : Medieval use / John Raven; title: The shielings survey : central South Uist / John Raven; title: Upland settlement in southern South Uist / Rachel Grahame; title: Part II. Excavation; title: Loch a' Choire Neolithic settlement / Cole Henley; title: Early Bronze Age Settlements at Machair Mheadhanach and Cill Donnain / Mike Hamilton and Niall Sharples; title: The Beaker-period and Early Bronze Age settlement at Sligeanach, Cill Donnain / Niall Sharples; title: Excavations of an Iron Age islet settlement in Upper Loch Bornish / Pete Marshall and Mike Parker Pearson; title: Excavations on Aisgernis and Frobost machair / Mike Parker Pearson; title: Excavations at Cille Donnain church / Mike Parker Pearson; title: Excavations at Medieval Gearraidh Bhailteas (Garryvaltos), Milton / James Symonds; title: Excavations at A Beinn na Mhic Aongheis (the Hill of the Son of Angus), Bornais / Mike Parker Pearson, Pete Marshall and Helen Smith; title: Excavation of early modern, early historic and prehistoric sites in Kirkidale / John Moreland; title: Part III. Historical and Geographical Studies; title: Locheynort (Loch Aoineart) in the historical period / Gill MacLean; title: The ethnohistory of Hebridean agriculture / Helen Smith; title: Part IV. Conclusion; title: Settlement, agriculture and society in South Uist before the Clearances / Mike Parker Pearson; title: Appendix; title: English-Gaelic glossary of place-names.