Isle of Lewis

Gabhaidh dùintean dìomhaireach fhaicinn air feadh na h-Eileanan an Iar, bho Dhùn Èistean faisg air Rubha Robhanais ann an Nis suas gu ruige Shròn an Dùin, Beàrnaraigh am Barraigh.  Tha an tràchdas seo a’ toirt sùil air dùintean Leòdhais agus ciamar a nochdas iad anns a’ bheul-aithris tron linn eachdraidheil.  Chithear na diofar seòrsan de dhùn ann an diofar suidheachaidhean - tùir-cruinne mòra faisg air a’ chladach leithid Dhùn Chàrlabhaigh, dùintean beaga air eileanan beaga le staran a’ dol thuca, eileanan daingnichte leithid Bhearasaigh agus stacan mara leithid Dhùn Èistean.  Leis a’ bhrosnachadh a fhuair e bhon artaigil ‘On the Duns of the Outer Hebrides’  le Caiptean F W L Thomas a chaidh fhoillseachadh ann an 1890, tha an tràchdas seo a’ sgrùdadh diofar dhùintean ann an Leòdhas - ma bhios sgeulachdan no traidiseanan eile a tha ceangailte riutha, dè seòrsa dàimh a tha ann eadar muinntir an sgìre agus an co-theagsa anns a’ bheil na dùintean cuide ri fianais-àrc-eòlais.

Tha an tràchdas seo ag amas sùil a thoirt air an obair a rinn àrsairean a chaidh a Leòdhais agus na Hearadh tron linn Bhioctorianach: cò bha iad, cò às a thàinig iad agus na beachdan, an fheallsanachd aca, dè seòrsa buaidh a tha an cuid obrach aca air àrc-eòlas anns na h-eileanan chun an latha an-diugh cuide ri an càirdeas a bha aca ri muinntir an àite.

This paper presents the results of the excavation of two dry-stone structures in the abandoned blackhouse village of Bereiro, near to the township of Crowlista, Isle of Lewis. The research was undertaken as part of a wider landscape project investigating human occupation on the Uig peninsula from prehistory to the post-medieval period (the Uig Landscape Project). The excavation aimed to collect dating evidence from the site to determine the date of construction and abandonment of one of the earliest structures in the village, in an attempt to establish the longevity of the blackhouse form in the vernacular architecture of medieval Atlantic Scotland. The results of the dating programme are considered alongside historical documents which record the social history of the village within the context of the long-standing research questions regarding blackhouse villages, including the development of the agricultural field systems and continuity or change in the Hebridean landscape from later-prehistory to medieval times.

This paper presents the results of the excavation of two dry-stone structures in the abandoned blackhouse village of Bereiro, near to the township of Crowlista, Isle of Lewis. The research was undertaken as part of a wider landscape project investigating human occupation on the Uig peninsula from prehistory to the post-medieval period (the Uig Landscape Project). The excavation aimed to collect dating evidence from the site to determine the date of construction and abandonment of one of the earliest structures in the village, in an attempt to establish the longevity of the blackhouse form in the vernacular architecture of medieval Atlantic Scotland. The results of the dating programme are considered alongside historical documents which record the social history of the village within the context of the long-standing research questions regarding blackhouse villages, including the development of the agricultural field systems and continuity or change in the Hebridean landscape from lat...