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THE UK made history by leaving the European Union. Now Brexit threatens the archaeology work that links us to our past as experts are blocked by red tape, it is claimed. Until January, Scottish commercial archaeology firms routinely recruited experts from the EU to work on excavations and other projects. Now red tape has made it too hard for many firms to bring in overseas talent. And, with the closure announced this week of one leading UK university archaeology department, it’s feared that the sector’s recruitment problems are about to get worse. The University of Sheffield plans to shutter its archaeology school and merge some of its activities with other departments. Many of its graduates are now in senior positions in Scotland and its work includes the excavation of Sheffield Castle, where Mary, Queen of Scots was once held, and at Cladh Hallan in South Uist, where Bronze Age mummies and ruins give tantalising clues about our ancient past. ....
Charting Ancient Cultures on Scotland’s West Coast Susan Bain is the National Trust for Scotland’s manager for the Western Isles and she told the Evening Express that the new results were “very encouraging.” Bain pointed out that this discovery is contemporary with the remains of a souterrain, or underground grain store, that was discovered on the island in the 19th century. These few clues tell us that people were well established on St. Kilda as part of the wider settlement of the Western Isles, says Bain. Hunter Blair also told the Daily Mail that “one of the most significant problems facing archaeologists working on St. Kilda is that earlier buildings were dismantled and cleared away in order to build new ones using the old stone as a building resource.” Stone was also cleared, “including that in burial mounds” to have more extensive cultivation areas, making excavations and the discovery of evidence of the past very complicated. ....
Hirta the largest island in the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda was inhabited 2,000 years ago, evidence from pottery sherds has revealed. Experts from Guard Archaeology conducted excavations on Hirta from 2017–2019, ahead of the refurbishment of the Ministry of Defence tracking station in Village Bay. Radiocarbon dating of food remains found on the pottery fragments indicated there has once been intensive inhabitation at Village Bay between the 4th–1st Century BC. The team also uncovered a pottery fragment which they suspect could possibly date back to the Bronze Age teasing the potential for even earlier occupation on Hirta. Hirta the largest island in the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda was inhabited 2,000 years ago, evidence from pottery shards has revealed. Pictured, excavations in Village Bay ....