The slides to accompany a community lecture at the Galson Trust Estate in Lewis. The lecture is also podcast on the web and traces the history of the village from prehistory to the present, looking at the Iron age, Norse, and 20th century evolution of the village

1. Galson:
The evolution of a crofting village
Professor Frank Rennie
Lews Castle College
University of the Highlands and Islands

2. Location

3. Currently unknown prehistorical date
Lazy beds and ruins

4. Galson Dun, circa 600 BC

5. http://www.isle-of-lewis.com/attractions/historical-
attractions/carloway-broch/

6. Iron-Age midden Circa 1000 AD

7. Iron-Age house

8. Pottery fragments – indefinite age (Iron-age to modern)

9. Other Galson finds…
Whalebone weaving comb
Worked antler
Bone
needle
100-
800 AD
Bronze horse-harness mount
Decorated bone plate (box cover?)
c 500 AD
Rope toggle (antler)

10. Site of a Viking village
1000 –
1100
AD

11. 1000 –
1100
AD

13. Bronze horse-harness
mount, inlaid with red
and green enamel,
from a Viking grave in
Galson (850-950 AD)

14. Viking Trade Routes

15. Blaeu’s Atlas 1654
http://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu/browse/104

16. 1819Teampull cro Naomh, William Daniell prints

18. 1855

19. 1863
Remains of pre-clearance houses, North Galson

20. 1895

21. Corn-drying kiln, Shawbost

22. Scott, L. (1951) Corn-drying kilns. Antiquity 25 (Is. 100) pp196-208. DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00020524
Galson corn-drying kiln

24. Corn-drying kiln, Galson

25. 1921
-23

26. 1999

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