Excavations at Dun Carloway broch, Isle of Lewis

Abstract

NB 190412. The NE mural chamber contained a thick occupation deposit with layers of ash representing a series of superimposed hearths; the large quantity of pottery suggests secondary use of the chamber for firing pottery. This is of plain ware, including large jars with tall everted rims and occasional applied cordons, datable elsewhere in the Hebrides to 5th-7th centuries AD. A R