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Bostadh Iron Age House & Village |
 Iron Age House © James SmithIt has long been known that something special lay in the dunes at Bostadh, as every now and then an artefact would be discovered on the beach.
In 1992 a severe storm dramatically altered the beach profile and this ancient village began to re-emerge from the sand. A series of rescue excavations in 1996 revealed a remarkable complex of houses surviving beneath the sand.
Due to the exposed position of the site and mobility of the sand, it was impossible to leave the structures as excavated, and they were backfilled with sand. The tops off the original walls of two of the houses can be seen.
The houses belong to a distinctive group that is found around the North and West of Scotland in the Late Iron Age or Pictish period, approximately 400- 800 AD.
A reconstruction has been built of one of the houses at Bosta. This "jelly baby" house was built using the techniques that were available at that time.
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