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Dun Bharabhat, Cnip: an Iron Age settlement in West Lewis: Vol 1, structures and material culture
Dennis W Harding
T N Dixon
An account of excavations, land-based and underwater, of the island dun in Loch Bharabhat on the Bhaltros peninsula, Isle of Lewis. A complex Atlantic roundhouse, constructed probably around the middle of the first millennium BC, was succeeded around the turn of the millennium by a simple roundhouse reusing the intramural cells that were still accessible. After the secondary roundhouse had been destroyed by fire, there followed occupation represented by a cellular construction outside the original building. External structures could not be confirmed for safety reasons. Occupation before the Atlantic roundhouse, although ephemeral, was likely.\r\nThe recognition that Dun Bharabhat was actually a complex roundhouse challenged the credibility of the `simple' Atlantic roundhouse as a type in the Outer Hebrides and raised the question of how Hebridean galleried duns differed from conventional brochs [the wider issues are to be discussed in forthcoming publication of excavations at Loch na Beirgh and Cnip foreshore]. Appendices comprise:
2000
The Iron Age settlement at Beirgh, Riof, Isle of Lewis, excavations 1985--95. Volume 1: the structures and stratigraphy
Dennis W Harding
Simon M D Gilmour
The site at Loch na Beirgh offers a unique structural sequence from a complex Atlantic roundhouse (broch) to late first-millennium AD buildings. Extended stratigraphy and organic preservation provide information on a scale not available hitherto. The structures and their development appear to be representative of wider patterns throughout Atlantic Scotland and, in the later phases, elsewhere. An earlier archaeological horizon (still to be investigated and perhaps stretching back into the first millennium BC) may be concealed below the foundations of the roundhouse, whose reduction culminated in the third and fourth centuries AD with construction of revetted, small cellular structures, which in turn developed into figure-of-eight buildings up to the eighth or ninth centuries.
2000
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