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The excavation and environmental investigation of a sub-peat stone bank near Loch Portain, North Uist, Outer Hebrides

  • Mills C
  • Crone A
  • Edwards K
  • et al.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1995) 124 155-171
DOI: 10.9750/psas.124.155.171
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Abstract

Reports probing, excavation, microfossil analysis, and radiocarbon dating. Radiocarbon dates indicate construction in the first half of the first millennium BC. Pollen analysis revealed contemporary poor heath-grassland with no apparent arable farming. Microscopic charcoal evidence indicates burning activity in the second millennium BC.

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Mills, C. M., Crone, A., Edwards, K. J., & Whittington, G. (1995). The excavation and environmental investigation of a sub-peat stone bank near Loch Portain, North Uist, Outer Hebrides. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 124, 155–171. https://doi.org/10.9750/psas.124.155.171

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