Allasdale

Allasdale
Scottish Gaelic: Allathasdal
Machair, close to the sea at Allasdale, has Bird's Foot Trefoil and Thrift to provide some colour
Allasdale  Allasdale shown within the Outer Hebrides
Population	4
Language	Scottish Gaelic
	English
OS grid reference	NF660034
Civil parish	Barra
Council area	Na h-Eileanan Siar
Lieutenancy area	Western Isles
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ISLE OF BARRA
Postcode district	HS9
Dialling code	01871
Police	Scottish
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Scottish Parliament	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
List of places UK Scotland

Coordinates: 57°00′04″N 7°30′07″W / 57.001°N 7.502°W / 57.001; -7.502

Allasdale (Scottish Gaelic: Allathasdal) is a settlement on Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The settlement is also within the parish of Barra,^[1] and is situated on the A888 which is the island's circular main road.^[2]

History

Bronze Age plough marks

In May 2007 Channel 4's archaeological television programme Time Team investigated some prehistoric remains that had first been partly exposed when storms in October 2005 had blown away some sand dunes. The site had been previously investigated in 2006 by a rescue survey funded by Historic Scotland.

Among the remains found were Bronze-Age cist burials and plough-marks, and a hamlet of Iron-Age roundhouses and a wheelhouse on a par with those at Skara Brae on the Orkney Isles.^[3] The programme featuring Allasdale was first broadcast on 20 January 2008, as part of Series 15 of Time Team.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Allasdale.

History

• RCAHMS Canmore record
• Time Team - Barra, Western Isles pages

Maps

• Location map (Ordnance Survey)

Articles

• "Time Team finds Bronze Age relics on Barra dunes" (Sunday Herald - June 2007)
• "Barra find dates back to Bronze Age" (Stone Pages Archaeo News - December 2006)