Dail Mòr
<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
| File:Picnic Area and Cemetery, Dail Mor - geograph.org.uk - 568187.jpg | |
 Shown within Scotland
|
|
| Alternate name | Dalmore |
|---|---|
| Location | Isle of Lewis |
| Region | Scotland |
| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Type | Beach |
| History | |
| Founded | Bronze Age |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1982 |
| Archaeologists | Gerald Ponting, Margaret Ponting |
| Public access | Yes |
Dail Mòr (or Dalmore) is a hamlet situated in the Northside of Carloway, a major settlement on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. The hamlet has a beach and a cemetery. A small well kept car park is available for visitors as are picnic & public BBQ facilities. The beach is a known surf destination mentioned in numerous guidebooks. Note there is a strong rip current at the north end of the beach.
Despite its remoteness, five of the six houses in the village were connected to fibre broadband in November 2012.[1]
Archaeology
Excavations were conducted at Dail Mòr in the autumn of 1982 by Gerald and Margaret Ponting when part of the sea wall collapsed near the beach. This was further excavated by Sharples and Curtis. Prehistoric stone structures were found and documented, suggested to be a dwelling, along with various artefacts left in place by Beaker culture with some earlier finds from the neolithic. These included tools made of bone or antler and pottery. A large number of flints and arrowheads found during excavations and on the beach nearby suggest the area may have been used for a workshop of their manufacture.[2] One noted artefact recovered was the Dalmore bone; a square-sectioned 34mm with perforation. Zig-zag markings just over 5mm apart on the bone were analysed by P.J. Scott and Margaret Ponting.[2][3][4][5]
References
- ↑ Stornoway Gazette
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "ArmitScotland1996" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This article about a location in the Western Isles is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
