Uig Landscape Survey

Date 1995 - 1998

Event ID 963656

Category Project

Type Project

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Walkover survey and selective topographical survey in areas around Camas Uig, and the northern part of the Bhaltos peninsula, Lewis. The initial survey identified 344 sites in the Uig landscape.

Four were chosen for targeted excavation. Three of the sites were selected as representative of monument classes rarely excavated in North Atlantic archaeology. These sites are Gob Eirer, a Late Bronze Age promontory enclosure; An Dunan, an Iron Age tidal islet comprising a causeway, an elaborate central hearth and evidence of later Norse re-use; and Guinnerso, a relict transhumance landscape, containing a 5.5m Holocene lake sequence, Bronze Age remains and a complex sequence of remarkably well preserved Medieval shielings. The fourth site is a dismantled blackhouse in the buaile of Bereiro.