Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Contents
1. Introduction / N. Sharples -- 2. Surveying the mounds -- 3. Methodologies -- 4. Trench D -- 5. Trench F -- 6. Test excavations -- 7. Comparative analysis of floors and middens -- 8. The chronology -- 9. Resource exploitation -- 10. Site activities -- 11. Discussion -- App. 1. Context list and concordance summary / N. Sharples -- App. 2. Artefact catalogue / A. Clarke, I. Dennis, P. Macdonald and A. Smith -- App. 3. Catalogue of illustrated pottery / A. Lane
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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.
