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From clan to clearance : history and archaeology on the Isle of Barra, c. 850-1850 AD / Keith Branigan ; with J.M. Bumsted ... [et al.] ; and contributions from E. Campbell ... [et al.].

Title: From clan to clearance : history and archaeology on the Isle of Barra, c. 850-1850 AD / Keith Branigan ; with J.M. Bumsted ... [et al.] ; and contributions from E. Campbell ... [et al.].
Author: Branigan, Keith
Publication: Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : [Distributed by] D. Brown Book Co., c2005.

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Description

252 p. : ill., maps, plans; 31 cm.

Summary

"This large, well-illustrated book is the culmination of fifteen years of historical and archaeological research into the history of Barra and its people from the time of the Vikings to the notorious clearances of 1850/51, as revealed by archaeology and hundreds of historical documents tucked away in archives in Scotland, England, Italy and Canada. The book describes the homes and workplaces of the population from Kisimul Castle and Eoligarry House, to the blackhouses and shielings of the ordinary clansmen. It pieces together their way of life, and for the first time uses archaeology to reveal just what it was like to live in a blackhouse. The collapse of the ancestral estate is documented in detail. There is also a special study of the township of Balnabodach, one of the most romantic settings in the whole of the Hebrides where one of the most notorious dramas of the Clearances was played out. The book concludes by tracing the migration of thousands of people from Barra to Canada in the years between 1770 and 1850."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Sheffield environmental and archaeological research campaign in the Hebrides ; v. 6

Uniform Title

Sheffield environmental and archaeological research campaign in the Hebrides (Series) v. 6.

Subject

Genre/Form

Genealogy
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-179).

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Barra from the Norsemen to Napoleon (A.D. 871-A.D. 1820) -- 3. historical archaeology of Barra -- 4. excavation of historical sites on Barra, Vatersay and Sandray -- 5. Balnabodach : the history and archaeology of a crofting township -- 6. Pottery usage in a crofting community : an overview / David Barker -- 7. rise and fall of the kelping industry in the Western Isles / J. M. Bumsted -- 8. General Macneil and Colonel Gordon : collapse and clearance (Barra from 1822 to 1851) -- 9. Emigration from Barra to British North America : 1770-1850 -- 10. Epilogue -- App. 1. list of Macneils petitioning for land in Cape Breton 1807-1826, not known to be from Barra -- App. 2. catalogue of named emigrants from the Isle of Barra to British North America : 1772-1851.

ISBN

1842171607 (hbk.)

OCLC

56876302
SCSB-10223947

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Harvard Library