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An unusual Iron Age burial at Hornish Point, South Uist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John Barber ,
Paul Halstead ,
Heather James  and
Frances Lee
John Barber
Affiliation:
Historic Buildings and Monuments, Scottish Development Department. 20 Brandon Street, Edinburgh
Paul Halstead
Affiliation:
Department of Prehistory & Archaeology, University of Sheffield
Heather James
Affiliation:
Historic Buildings and Monuments, Scottish Development Department. 20 Brandon Street, Edinburgh
Frances Lee
Affiliation:
Calvin Wells Laboratory, Department of Archaeological Science, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Abstract

Ritual, or apparently ritual, burials of Iron Age date are not uncommon in Britain. However, most of those for which records survive were recovered in less than ideal circumstances or from sites which are not securely dated. This example was recovered in recent excavations of a well-dated site, and from an area of Britain for which evidence of Iron Age burial practices is unusually scanty.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 241 , December 1989 , pp. 773 - 778
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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