English migrants in the Hebrides: 'Atlantic Second B' revisited

Abstract

Rebuttal of the theory that there was an influx of settlers from S England or NW France into the Hebrides in the 1st century BC. Rejected are cultural links shown by glass beads, bronze spiral finger rings, long-handled bone combs, parallelopiped bone dice, triangular crucibles, disc querns, pottery, house design, and double guard cells. Fresh analyses of artefacts and structures are needed to resolve a peculiarly Hebridean archaeological record. A R