Excavations at CILL Donnain: A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron Age Wheelhouse in South Uist

by Mike Parker Pearson and Marek Zvelebil

The SEARCH (Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides) project began in 1987 and covers the Scotland's Outer Hebrides. The aim of the project is to investigate how human societies adapted in the long-term to the isolated environment of the Outer Hebrides.

The first major excavation on South Uist discovered that what was thought to be a shell midden at Cill Donnain was in fact a wheelhouse, a type of dwelling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782976272
• ISBN13: 9781782976271
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 11.9"