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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 13 March 2007  Page Views: 5308

MuseumsSite Name: Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre Alternative Name: Lochmaddy Wheelhouse, Taigh-Chearsabhagh Museum
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.324 km away from the location you searched for.

County: North Uist Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Lochmaddy
Map Ref: NF920681
Latitude: 57.597425N  Longitude: 7.157466W
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Museum in North Uist. The Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre stands close to the high-tide mark in the village of Lochmaddy. The centre is a focus for life in North Uist, and welcomes large numbers of visitors each year to experience the arts, culture and heritage of the islands in a friendly and stimulating environment.

The centre is close to Lochmaddy’s ferry terminal, which links it to Uig on Skye. The building around which it has been developed was built in 1741 as an inn, and at the time was one of a very few slate-roofed buildings on North Uist.

As well as the shop and café, attractions at Taigh Chearsabhagh include a museum, where changing displays of local life and history can be seen. There are also two galleries in which work by local (and not so local) artists is displayed. Last but not least, the centre also offers a research room for those studying aspects of island life or the lives of the people who lived here.

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Note: Museum to be home to project to reconstruct an Iron Age wheelhouse, see comment
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Reconstruction project for Iron Age wheelhouse by Andy B on Tuesday, 13 March 2007
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North Uist's rich archaeological inheritance is to be given a fresh focus with plans to reconstruct an Iron Age Wheelhouse in Lochmaddy.

It will be only the second in Scotland, with the other at Scatness in Shetland, and will be a step towards fulfilling the island's huge potential in heritage tourism.
In Britain, wheelhouses have only been found in the Western Isles and Shetland. Forming part of a wider trend towards the Iron Age roundhouse, they were built roughly between 500 BC and 500 AD, at around the same time as brochs.
A number have been found in the Uists, with many others thought to have been lost to the encroaching sea.

They are circular drystone structures, with a single entrance and central hearth. The interior is divided by a number of stone walls, arranged like the spokes of a wheel, opening into the central area.

The cells formed by the 'spokes' seemed to have had corbelled stone roofs, while it's thought the central space was probably roofed with timbers, or whalebone, and turf.
It's thought wheelhouses were used not only as homes, but also for religious and ritual activity. Pits were found below the floor of a now-lost wheelhouse in North Uist containing mutilated and cremated animal remains, and in another, part of a human skull.

The reconstructed wheelhouse will be situated near the Taigh-Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre in Lochmaddy, on land that will be signed over to the Taigh-Chearsabhagh Centre by North Uist Estates.

The Centre will ultimately own and have responsibility for running the new visitor attraction once it is built in 2008.

Read more at Stornoway Today
http://www.stornowaytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=3477&ArticleID=2107478
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