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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Traigh na Berie Alternative Name: Atlantic HouseCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 3.57 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Isle of Lewis Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: Uig Nearest Village: Riof
Map Ref: NB1035235177 Landranger Map Number: 13
Latitude: 58.209852N Longitude: 6.933349W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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It is situated in a coastal inlet behind the sand-dunes, and at first sight it appears to be built entirely on dry land. But it is in fact built on the edge of a loch and the reeds are growing in deep water. The broch was first noted in the Royal Commission Inventory of 1928 when it was presciently named as a broch. The excavations soon confirmed this, for the surrounding defensive wall is hollow. However the excavations soon made it clear that the broch survives to first floor level. The hollow walls are bridged by flagstones and under the flagstones could be seen the underlying cells, with the staircase coming up to first floor level and indeed continuing upwards. The earlier levels of the broch are submerged to a depth of around two metres; more correctly, silting up of the loch, and the consequent rise in water table has progressively engulfed the lower levels of the broch, so that each successive re-occupation had to rebuild at a slightly higher level. The nett result is that the lower phases of construction have not been damaged by the later nearly so much as they would have been in normal circumstances; furthermore the waterlogging of the lower levels means that organic and environmental materials are remarkably well preserved. The excavations, therefore, concentrated initially on the later phases of re-occupation within the broch interior. On the top was a 'Pictish' phase, now removed, dating to the 5th to 8th centuries AD. This comprised a 'figure of eight' structure from which a number of objects which are normally classified as 'Pictish' were discovered - penannular brooches, bronze tweezers, an assortment of bronze and bone pins, composite bone combs and crucibles for bronze casting.
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