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Brochs and Iron Age society: a reappraisal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mike Parker Pearson ,
Niall Sharples  and
Jacqui Mulville
Mike Parker Pearson
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology & Prehistory, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, England
Niall Sharples
Affiliation:
School of History & Archaeology, University of Wales College of Cardiff, PO Box 909, Cardiff CF1 3XU, Wales
Jacqui Mulville
Affiliation:
ARCUS, Research School of Archaeology & Archaeological Science, 2 Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT, England
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Abstract

The brochs, great stone towers of Iron Age Scotland, are famously puzzling. Who inhabited these strongholds (if habitations they were)? New fieldwork at the broch of Dun Vulan, on South Uist in the Western Isles, prompts reappraisal of the geographical and social context of the brochs, by developing untapped sources of social evidence.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 267 , March 1996 , pp. 57 - 67
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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