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

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.