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<< News >> Roundhouses Revealed by Scottish Storm Excavated

Submitted by aluta on Wednesday, 27 June 2007  Page Views: 2552

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The BBC reports that archaeologists are excavating the remains of houses believed to date back 2,000 years after they were uncovered by a ferocious storm. Fife-based charity Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion (Scape) is leading a community project at the site on North Uist.

Scape co-ordinator Tom Dawson, a research fellow at the University of St Andrews, said Historic Scotland was helping to fund the project at Baile Sear.

He said: "People had seen bits and pieces of the remains before, but as the cobbles and sand washed way the structures are just sitting there on the beach.

"There are thought to be two roundhouses. We believe they are Iron Age making them 2,000 years old."

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'Elite' Roundhouse Uncovered in Aberdeenshire by Aluta on Thursday, 28 June 2007
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More roundhouse news from the BBC.

"One of the biggest Iron Age roundhouses ever found in Scotland has been uncovered during an archaeological dig near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire.

The 2,000-year-old stone building was found in the Bennachie hills on the site of an earlier Bronze Age fort.

The archaeologists who uncovered it said the size of the building suggested it was inhabited by society's elite.

But they said it was impossible to say what relationship the owners had with Roman soldiers living in nearby camps.

The 20m wide roundhouse was lived in by the predecessors of the Picts around the time of the Roman invasions of northern Scotland."

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