Sailing from Scotland to the Faroe Islands - STS Malcolm Miller.
Weather & Transport. Rural Life. Reference. Writing. Archives & Museums. Gaelic. Isle of Harris. Emigration. Heritage Sites Info. General Archaeology. Archaeology Socs. Scottish Archaeological Forum: Welcome. Bostadh Iron Age House Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland. In an echo of the discovery of Skara Brae a century and a half earlier, a storm in 1993 cut away the dunes on the east side of Bostadh Beach at the north end of the island of Great Bernera.
Following the storm a series of stone structures were found to be projecting through the new dune surface. Archaeologists spent a total of 13 weeks at Bostadh during 1996. Evidence was found of Norse settlement here, but underneath the Norse levels a series of five Pictish jelly baby or figure of eight houses were found, in a remarkable state of preservation.
The names come from the shape of the house, which is like a vaguely circular blob, with a separate and smaller vaguely circular blob attached to one end of it, linked by an internal doorway. The houses had been built by excavating a floor level well below the surrounding sand, and building up a double layer of dry stone walling, with the gaps between the walls filled with turf, clay, sand and midden. How to build a house for £4,000. A £24m funding package was put together earlier this year to help first-time buyers in Scotland get a foot on the property ladder.
But just how much would they have to spend to build their own home? The answer could be as little as £4,000. That is the estimated price tag attached to a property which has been built in southern Scotland over the past four years. The walls are made of straw, the roof out of turf and much of the rest of the building from items other people threw away. The end product is a warm and watertight cottage which gets its water supplies by gathering rainfall and its electricity from a car battery. Plans are also in place for a water wheel to provide power for the property later this year. According to 52-year-old software engineer Steve James, who built the Galloway home, there was a dual motivation behind his "grand design". Firstly, he has always enjoyed manual labour and the idea of building a home with his own hands appealed to him.
Cubicle doors. Archaeology Scotland. Welcome to our new and improved Adopt-a-Monument news and events page! See below for up-to-date news on the AaM Scheme, and training events we will be holding in your area! Watch out for our quarterly AaM newsletter (link below) and check out Archaeology Scotland on Twitter (@ArchScot) and Facebook. 930am-4pm Saturday and Sunday May 26th and 27th Introduction to Digital Photography Recording and Applications (Training Workshop) in Bunessan on Mull with Richard Stroud, Photogrammetry Specialist The 2 day free workshop will be introducing (through talks and practicals) cutting edge digital photography and modelling techniques which will not only compliment your existing survey and recording methods but create wonderful visual products which can be used for promotion, off site/remote access interpretation, conservation and management.
This workshop will introduce a suite of applications from an emerging computer vision technology called Structure From Motion (SfM). Looking after our heritage - Historic & listed buildings.
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