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Galson: The evolution of a crofting
village
Professor Frank RennieLews Castle College
University of the Highlands and Islands
Location
Currently unknown prehistorical dateLazy beds and ruins
Galson Dun, circa 600 BC
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Iron-Age midden Circa 1000 AD
Iron-Age house
Pottery fragments – indefinite age (Iron-age to modern)
Other Galson finds…Whalebone weaving comb
Worked antler
Bone needle 100-800 AD
Bronze horse-harness mount
Decorated bone plate (box cover?) c 500 AD
Rope toggle (antler)
Site of a Viking village
1000 – 1100 AD
1000 – 1100 AD
Bronze horse-harness mount, inlaid with red and green enamel, from a Viking grave in Galson (850-950 AD)
Viking Trade Routes
Blaeu’s Atlas 1654
http://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu/browse/104
1819Teampull cro Naomh, William Daniell prints
1855
1863Remains of pre-clearance houses, North Galson
1895
Corn-drying kiln, Shawbost
Scott, L. (1951) Corn-drying kilns. Antiquity 25 (Is. 100) pp196-208. DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00020524
Galson corn-drying kiln
Corn-drying kiln, Galson
1921-23
1999
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