Author: Keith Branigan; Patrick Foster
Title: Barra: From the End of the Ice Age to the Crofting Commission (Sheffield Environmental & Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides)
Description: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995. Hardcover. From the fly-leaf: 'For the past six years a team of archaeologists, historians and environmental scientists from the University of Sheffield have been exploring the island of Barra, attempting to learn more of its history and its way of life in the pre-modern times, before it was thrust into the spotlight of history by Napier Commission on crofting at the end of the 19th century AD. In that time they have discovered and recorded many hundreds of previously unknown sites and monuments, excavated selected examples, and carried out extensive environmental sampling and laboratory-based analysis of all this evidence. This first volume of reports focuses on the wild and rocky peninsula of Tangaval at the south-western corner of the island. In this seemingly inhospitable place, on the western-most margin of Europe, perched on the very edge of the Atlantic Ocean, the team have discovered almost 250 sites and monuments. They range from the first rock-shelter and occupation huts of the earliest settlers around 4000 BC to the abandoned settlements from which MacNeils sailed to new homes in America and Australia in the mid-19th century'. xix 231p photos, diagrams, maps. Heavy book - will require extra postage for 1st class in UK and overseas. See scans (ISBN: 1850755078).. Fine

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