Hebrides Archaeological Interpretation Programme

Publications

The project will produce a series of high quality area guide books, one each devoted to the Uists and Benbecula, to Barra and the small isles, and to Lewis and Harris. A suite of colourful leaflets will complete our range of interpretative materials.

 

 

 

 

 

Barra

This colourful guide presents the story of the human habitation of Barra from the appearance of the first stone age settlers over 6,000 years ago to the crofters of the last century.  If offers a vivid account of their lives and times, suggesting the most rewarding places to visit and providing a clear description of each site.

Keith Branigan, as Professor of Archaeology and Prehistory at the University of Sheffield, led a major campaign of archaeological investigation and excavation in Barra in the 1990s, discovering and recording hundreds of previously unknown sites.  This pioneering work has made possible our understanding of ancient Barra.

ANCIENT BARRA is the first of three guide books exploring the history and archaeology of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, published by the Hebrides Archaeological Interpretation Programme of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, with support from the HISTP programme of the European Union.  They are available from Tourist Information Centres, and other outlets throughout the Western Isles

Two further volumes, covering the Uists and Benbecula, and Harris and Lewis, will be available later in 2007, from the same address.