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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