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Angus, S. 1993 ‘Statistics relating to the Western Isles’, Hebridean Naturalist, 11: 36-40.
Angus, S. 2001 Moor and machair. Cambridge: White Horse Press.
Armit, I. 1988 Excavations at Cnip, West Lewis, 1988: interim report. Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.
Armit, I. (ed.) 1990 Beyond the Brochs: Changing Perspectives on the Later Iron Age in Atlantic Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Armit, I. 1992 The Later Prehistory of the Western Isles of Scotland. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports [British Series] 221.
Armit, I. 1996 The Archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Armit, I. 1997 ‘Excavation of a post-medieval settlement at Druim nan Dearcag, and related sites around Loch Olabhat, North Uist’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 127: 899-919.
Armit, I. 1998 ‘Re-excavation of an Iron Age wheelhouse and earlier structure at Eilean Maleit, North Uist’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 128: 255-271.
Barber, J. 2004 Bronze Age farms and Iron Age farm mounds of the Outer Hebrides. Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports. http:/www.sair/sair4/
Beveridge, E. 1911 North Uist: its archaeology and topography, with notes upon the early history of the Outer Hebrides. Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd.
Boyd, J.M. and I.L. Boyd. 1996 A Natural Tapestry: The Hebrides. Birlinn Ltd.
Branigan, K. and P. Foster. 2002 Barra and The Bishop’s Isles: Living on the Margin. Stroud: Tempus
Burnett, R. 1986 Benbecula. Mingulay Press, Torlum,Western Isles.
Campbell, E. 1991 ‘Excavation of a wheelhouse and other Iron Age structures at Sollas, North Uist, by R.J.C. Atkinson in 1957’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 121: 117 – 73.
Carruthers, M. 2002 Communities in southwest Scotland c.200BC-AD200: social space, material culture and identity. Unpublished M.Phil thesis, Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow.
Ceron-Carrasco, R.N. 2002 Of fish and men: Aspects of the utilization of marine resources from selected Hebridean archaeological sites. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.
Crawford, B.A. 1987 Scandinavian Scotland (Leicester).
Crawford, I A. 1986 The West Highlands and Islands: A view of 50 centuries: The Udal (North Uist) Evidence. Cambridge.
Crawford, I.A. 2001 An t-Udal 1991, 29th interim report. Cambridge, 1991.
Crawford, I.A. 2002 ‘The wheelhouse’, in Ballin Smith, B. and I. Banks. (eds.) 2002 In the Shadow of the Brochs: The Iron Age in Scotland 111-128. Tempus.
Cumberpatch, C. 1990 The Pottery from Cill Donnain, South Uist. Unpublished report, University of Sheffield.
Cummings, V. and N.M Sharples. 1999 The excavation of a chambered cairn at Leaval, South Uist. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Specialist Report no. 17.
Curle, C.L. 1982 Pictish and Norse Finds from the Brough of Birsay 1934-74. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series 1.
Emery, N. 1996 The Archaeology and Ethnology of St. Kilda No.1, Archaeological Excavations on Hirta 1986-90. Edinburgh: HMSO.
Fairhurst, H. 1971 ‘The wheelhouse site at A’ Cheardach Bheag on Drimore Machair, South Uist’, Glasgow Archaeological Journal 2, 1971, 72-106.
Finlay, N. 2004 ‘Preliminary Observations on a collection of flint lithic artefacts from Grimsay, Ashworth Collection SMR 5004’. Unpublished typescript, University of Glasgow.
Fitzpatrick, A. 1994 ‘Outside in: The structure of an Early Iron Age house at Dunston Park, Thatchan, Berkshire’, in A. Fitzpatrick and E. Morris (eds.) 1994 The Iron Age in Wessex: Recent work (Salisbury: Trust for Wessex Archaeology and AFEAF): 68-72.
Gilmour, S.M.D. 2000 ‘First Millennia settlement development in the Atlantic West’, in J. Henderson (ed.) 2000 The Prehistory and Early History of Atlantic Europe. British Archaeological Reports [British Series] 861.
Hallen, Y. 1994 ‘The use of bone and antler at Foshigarry and Bac Mhic Connain, two Iron Age sites on North Uist, Western Isles’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 124: 189-231.
Harding, D.W. and S.M.D Gilmour 2000 The Iron Age settlement at Beirgh, Riof, Isle of Lewis: excavations, 1985-95. Vol. 1, The structures and stratigraphy.
Hedges, J.W. 1987 Bu, Gurness and the Brochs of Orkney. Oxford. BAR British Series, 164.
Henshall, A.S. 1972 The chambered tombs of Scotland, Volume 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Hothersall, S. and R. Tye. 2000 The Lost Wheelhouses of Uist. Robert Tye, Isle of South Uist.
Johnson, M. 2004 ‘An Approach to Ceramic Change: Iron Age Pottery from the Outer Hebrides’. Unpublished typescript, University of Edinburgh.
Lane, A. 1983 Dark Age and Viking Age Pottery in the Hebrides, with special reference to the Udal, North Uist. Unpublished PhD thesis, University College, London.
Lane, A. 1987 ‘English migrants in the Hebrides: ‘Atlantic Second B’ revisited’ in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 117: 47-66.
Lane, A. 1990 ‘Hebridean Pottery: Problems of Definition, Chronology, Presence and Absence’, in I. Armit (ed.) 1990 Beyond the Brochs: Changing Perspectives on the Later Iron Age in Atlantic Scotland 108-130. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Lawson, B. 2000 Croft history: Isle of North Uist Vol. 3, Griomasaigh, Ronaigh. Northton, Isle of Harris: Bill Lawson Publications.
MacKie, E.W. 1965 ‘The origin and development of the Broch and Wheelhouse Building Cultures of the Scottish Iron Age’. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 31, 93-146.
MacKie, E.W. 1974 Dun Mor Vaul: An Iron Age Broch on Tiree. Glasgow: Glasgow University.
MacKie, E.W. 1987 ‘Review of H. Fairhurst, Excavations at Crosskirk broch, Caithness’. Antiquaries Journal 65 no. 2, 500-501.
MacKie, E.W. 1997 ‘Dun Mor Vaul Revisited: Fact and Theory in the Reappraisal of the Scottish Atlantic Iron Age’, in G. Ritchie (ed.) 1997 The Archaeology of Argyll, 141-180. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
MacLaren, A. 1974 A Norse house on Drimore Machair, South Uist. Glasgow Archaeological Journal 3: 9-18.
MacSween, A. 2002 Dun Bheag and the role of pottery in interpretations of the Hebridean Iron Age, in Ballin Smith, B. and I. Banks. (eds.) 2002 In the Shadow of the Brochs: The Iron Age in Scotland 145-152. Tempus.
Mainman, A.J. and N.S.H Rogers. 2000 Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Finds from Anglo-Scandinavian York. York: Council for British Archaeology.
McKenzie, A. 2003 Analysis of Wheelhouses Architecture in the Western Isles. Unpublished MA dissertation, University of Glasgow.
Moreland, J. 1990 ‘Loch Aineort’ SEARCH interim report. Unpublished report, University of Sheffield.
Oswald, D. 1997 ‘A doorway on the past: practical and mystic concerns in the orientation of roundhouse doorways’, in A. Gwilt and C. Haselgrove (eds.) 1997 Reconstructing Iron Age Societies: new approaches to the British Iron Age 87-95. Oxford: Oxbow.
Parker Pearson, M. and C. Richards (eds.) 1994 Architecture and order: approaches to social space. London: Routledge.
Parker Pearson, M., N.M. Sharples and J. Mulville 1996 ‘Brochs and Iron Age Society: A reappraisal’, Antiquity 70: 57-67.
Parker Pearson, M. 2004 South Uist: archaeology and history of a Hebridean island. Tempus.
Parker Pearson, M. et al forthcoming in Housley, R.A. and G. Coles (eds.) Atlantic connections and adaptations: economic, environment and subsistence inlands bordering the North Atlantic. Symposia of Association of Environmental Archaeology 21. Oxford: Oxbow.
Parker Pearson, M. and N.M, Sharples. with Mulvile, J and Smith, H 1999. Between Land and Sea: Excavations at Dun Vulan, South Uist. SEARCH volume 4. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
Reid 1799 ‘Griomasaigh’, in B. Lawson. 2000 Croft history: Isle of North Uist Vol. 3, Griomasaigh, Ronaigh, 50. Northton, Isle of Harris: Bill Lawson Publications.
Ritchie, P.R 1984 Soapstone quarrying in Viking lands, in Fenton, A. and Palsson, H (eds.) The Northern and Western Isles in the Viking World, 59-84. Edinburgh.
Scott, J.G. 1956 ‘South Uist Excavations’. Discovery and Excavation, Scotland 1956, 32.
Scott, W.L. 1948 ‘Gallo-British Colonies, the aisled round house culture in the North’. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 14, 46-125.
Sharples, N.M. 1998 Scalloway: A Broch, Late Iron Age Settlement and Medieval Cemetery in Shetland. Oxbow Monograph 82. Exeter: The Short Run Press.
Sharples, N.M. 1999 The Iron Age and Norse settlement at Bornish, South Uist. An interim report on the 1999 excavations. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Specialist Report no. 16.
Thomas, F.W.L. 1870 ‘On the primitive dwellings and hypogea of the Outer Hebrides’. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 7, 165-7
Topping, P.G. 1985 The pottery of the later prehistoric period in the Western Isles of Scotland. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh
Topping, P.G. 1987 ‘Typology and chronology in the later prehistoric pottery assemblages of the Western Isles’. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 117, 67-84.
Whittington, G. and W. Ritchie. 1988 Flandarin Environmental Evolution on North-East Benbecula and Southern Grimsay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. O’Dell Memorial Monograph no. 21. Department of Geography, University of Aberdeen.
Wilkins, D A. 1984 ‘The Flandrian woods of Lewis’, Journal of Ecology 72: 251-58
Wood, J.S. (ed.) 1999 An Archaeological Field Survey of A Wheelhouse and Surrounding Area at Bagh nam Feadag, Grimsay, North Uist. Association of Certified Field Archaeologists (Glasgow University) Occasional Paper No. 44.
Young, A. 1961 ‘Brochs and Duns’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 95: 171-98.
Young, A. 1966 ‘The sequence of Hebridean pottery’, 45-58, in Rivet, A.L.F (ed.) 1966 The Iron Age in Northern Britain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Zvelebil, M. 1991 Cill Donnain: SEARCH interim report. Unpublished report, University of Sheffield.
Angus, S. 2001 Moor and machair. Cambridge: White Horse Press.
Armit, I. 1988 Excavations at Cnip, West Lewis, 1988: interim report. Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.
Armit, I. (ed.) 1990 Beyond the Brochs: Changing Perspectives on the Later Iron Age in Atlantic Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Armit, I. 1992 The Later Prehistory of the Western Isles of Scotland. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports [British Series] 221.
Armit, I. 1996 The Archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Armit, I. 1997 ‘Excavation of a post-medieval settlement at Druim nan Dearcag, and related sites around Loch Olabhat, North Uist’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 127: 899-919.
Armit, I. 1998 ‘Re-excavation of an Iron Age wheelhouse and earlier structure at Eilean Maleit, North Uist’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 128: 255-271.
Barber, J. 2004 Bronze Age farms and Iron Age farm mounds of the Outer Hebrides. Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports. http:/www.sair/sair4/
Beveridge, E. 1911 North Uist: its archaeology and topography, with notes upon the early history of the Outer Hebrides. Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd.
Boyd, J.M. and I.L. Boyd. 1996 A Natural Tapestry: The Hebrides. Birlinn Ltd.
Branigan, K. and P. Foster. 2002 Barra and The Bishop’s Isles: Living on the Margin. Stroud: Tempus
Burnett, R. 1986 Benbecula. Mingulay Press, Torlum,Western Isles.
Campbell, E. 1991 ‘Excavation of a wheelhouse and other Iron Age structures at Sollas, North Uist, by R.J.C. Atkinson in 1957’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 121: 117 – 73.
Carruthers, M. 2002 Communities in southwest Scotland c.200BC-AD200: social space, material culture and identity. Unpublished M.Phil thesis, Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow.
Ceron-Carrasco, R.N. 2002 Of fish and men: Aspects of the utilization of marine resources from selected Hebridean archaeological sites. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.
Crawford, B.A. 1987 Scandinavian Scotland (Leicester).
Crawford, I A. 1986 The West Highlands and Islands: A view of 50 centuries: The Udal (North Uist) Evidence. Cambridge.
Crawford, I.A. 2001 An t-Udal 1991, 29th interim report. Cambridge, 1991.
Crawford, I.A. 2002 ‘The wheelhouse’, in Ballin Smith, B. and I. Banks. (eds.) 2002 In the Shadow of the Brochs: The Iron Age in Scotland 111-128. Tempus.
Cumberpatch, C. 1990 The Pottery from Cill Donnain, South Uist. Unpublished report, University of Sheffield.
Cummings, V. and N.M Sharples. 1999 The excavation of a chambered cairn at Leaval, South Uist. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Specialist Report no. 17.
Curle, C.L. 1982 Pictish and Norse Finds from the Brough of Birsay 1934-74. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series 1.
Emery, N. 1996 The Archaeology and Ethnology of St. Kilda No.1, Archaeological Excavations on Hirta 1986-90. Edinburgh: HMSO.
Fairhurst, H. 1971 ‘The wheelhouse site at A’ Cheardach Bheag on Drimore Machair, South Uist’, Glasgow Archaeological Journal 2, 1971, 72-106.
Finlay, N. 2004 ‘Preliminary Observations on a collection of flint lithic artefacts from Grimsay, Ashworth Collection SMR 5004’. Unpublished typescript, University of Glasgow.
Fitzpatrick, A. 1994 ‘Outside in: The structure of an Early Iron Age house at Dunston Park, Thatchan, Berkshire’, in A. Fitzpatrick and E. Morris (eds.) 1994 The Iron Age in Wessex: Recent work (Salisbury: Trust for Wessex Archaeology and AFEAF): 68-72.
Gilmour, S.M.D. 2000 ‘First Millennia settlement development in the Atlantic West’, in J. Henderson (ed.) 2000 The Prehistory and Early History of Atlantic Europe. British Archaeological Reports [British Series] 861.
Hallen, Y. 1994 ‘The use of bone and antler at Foshigarry and Bac Mhic Connain, two Iron Age sites on North Uist, Western Isles’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 124: 189-231.
Harding, D.W. and S.M.D Gilmour 2000 The Iron Age settlement at Beirgh, Riof, Isle of Lewis: excavations, 1985-95. Vol. 1, The structures and stratigraphy.
Hedges, J.W. 1987 Bu, Gurness and the Brochs of Orkney. Oxford. BAR British Series, 164.
Henshall, A.S. 1972 The chambered tombs of Scotland, Volume 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Hothersall, S. and R. Tye. 2000 The Lost Wheelhouses of Uist. Robert Tye, Isle of South Uist.
Johnson, M. 2004 ‘An Approach to Ceramic Change: Iron Age Pottery from the Outer Hebrides’. Unpublished typescript, University of Edinburgh.
Lane, A. 1983 Dark Age and Viking Age Pottery in the Hebrides, with special reference to the Udal, North Uist. Unpublished PhD thesis, University College, London.
Lane, A. 1987 ‘English migrants in the Hebrides: ‘Atlantic Second B’ revisited’ in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 117: 47-66.
Lane, A. 1990 ‘Hebridean Pottery: Problems of Definition, Chronology, Presence and Absence’, in I. Armit (ed.) 1990 Beyond the Brochs: Changing Perspectives on the Later Iron Age in Atlantic Scotland 108-130. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Lawson, B. 2000 Croft history: Isle of North Uist Vol. 3, Griomasaigh, Ronaigh. Northton, Isle of Harris: Bill Lawson Publications.
MacKie, E.W. 1965 ‘The origin and development of the Broch and Wheelhouse Building Cultures of the Scottish Iron Age’. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 31, 93-146.
MacKie, E.W. 1974 Dun Mor Vaul: An Iron Age Broch on Tiree. Glasgow: Glasgow University.
MacKie, E.W. 1987 ‘Review of H. Fairhurst, Excavations at Crosskirk broch, Caithness’. Antiquaries Journal 65 no. 2, 500-501.
MacKie, E.W. 1997 ‘Dun Mor Vaul Revisited: Fact and Theory in the Reappraisal of the Scottish Atlantic Iron Age’, in G. Ritchie (ed.) 1997 The Archaeology of Argyll, 141-180. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
MacLaren, A. 1974 A Norse house on Drimore Machair, South Uist. Glasgow Archaeological Journal 3: 9-18.
MacSween, A. 2002 Dun Bheag and the role of pottery in interpretations of the Hebridean Iron Age, in Ballin Smith, B. and I. Banks. (eds.) 2002 In the Shadow of the Brochs: The Iron Age in Scotland 145-152. Tempus.
Mainman, A.J. and N.S.H Rogers. 2000 Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Finds from Anglo-Scandinavian York. York: Council for British Archaeology.
McKenzie, A. 2003 Analysis of Wheelhouses Architecture in the Western Isles. Unpublished MA dissertation, University of Glasgow.
Moreland, J. 1990 ‘Loch Aineort’ SEARCH interim report. Unpublished report, University of Sheffield.
Oswald, D. 1997 ‘A doorway on the past: practical and mystic concerns in the orientation of roundhouse doorways’, in A. Gwilt and C. Haselgrove (eds.) 1997 Reconstructing Iron Age Societies: new approaches to the British Iron Age 87-95. Oxford: Oxbow.
Parker Pearson, M. and C. Richards (eds.) 1994 Architecture and order: approaches to social space. London: Routledge.
Parker Pearson, M., N.M. Sharples and J. Mulville 1996 ‘Brochs and Iron Age Society: A reappraisal’, Antiquity 70: 57-67.
Parker Pearson, M. 2004 South Uist: archaeology and history of a Hebridean island. Tempus.
Parker Pearson, M. et al forthcoming in Housley, R.A. and G. Coles (eds.) Atlantic connections and adaptations: economic, environment and subsistence inlands bordering the North Atlantic. Symposia of Association of Environmental Archaeology 21. Oxford: Oxbow.
Parker Pearson, M. and N.M, Sharples. with Mulvile, J and Smith, H 1999. Between Land and Sea: Excavations at Dun Vulan, South Uist. SEARCH volume 4. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
Reid 1799 ‘Griomasaigh’, in B. Lawson. 2000 Croft history: Isle of North Uist Vol. 3, Griomasaigh, Ronaigh, 50. Northton, Isle of Harris: Bill Lawson Publications.
Ritchie, P.R 1984 Soapstone quarrying in Viking lands, in Fenton, A. and Palsson, H (eds.) The Northern and Western Isles in the Viking World, 59-84. Edinburgh.
Scott, J.G. 1956 ‘South Uist Excavations’. Discovery and Excavation, Scotland 1956, 32.
Scott, W.L. 1948 ‘Gallo-British Colonies, the aisled round house culture in the North’. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 14, 46-125.
Sharples, N.M. 1998 Scalloway: A Broch, Late Iron Age Settlement and Medieval Cemetery in Shetland. Oxbow Monograph 82. Exeter: The Short Run Press.
Sharples, N.M. 1999 The Iron Age and Norse settlement at Bornish, South Uist. An interim report on the 1999 excavations. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Specialist Report no. 16.
Thomas, F.W.L. 1870 ‘On the primitive dwellings and hypogea of the Outer Hebrides’. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 7, 165-7
Topping, P.G. 1985 The pottery of the later prehistoric period in the Western Isles of Scotland. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh
Topping, P.G. 1987 ‘Typology and chronology in the later prehistoric pottery assemblages of the Western Isles’. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 117, 67-84.
Whittington, G. and W. Ritchie. 1988 Flandarin Environmental Evolution on North-East Benbecula and Southern Grimsay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. O’Dell Memorial Monograph no. 21. Department of Geography, University of Aberdeen.
Wilkins, D A. 1984 ‘The Flandrian woods of Lewis’, Journal of Ecology 72: 251-58
Wood, J.S. (ed.) 1999 An Archaeological Field Survey of A Wheelhouse and Surrounding Area at Bagh nam Feadag, Grimsay, North Uist. Association of Certified Field Archaeologists (Glasgow University) Occasional Paper No. 44.
Young, A. 1961 ‘Brochs and Duns’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 95: 171-98.
Young, A. 1966 ‘The sequence of Hebridean pottery’, 45-58, in Rivet, A.L.F (ed.) 1966 The Iron Age in Northern Britain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Zvelebil, M. 1991 Cill Donnain: SEARCH interim report. Unpublished report, University of Sheffield.