Little Bernera

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Little Bernera
Beach on the north bank
Beach on the north bank
Waters North Atlantic
Archipelago Outer Hebrides
Geographical location 58 ° 15 '53 "  N , 6 ° 52' 24"  W Coordinates: 58 ° 15 '53 "  N , 6 ° 52' 24"  W.
Little Bernera (Scotland)
Little Bernera
length 1.9 km
width 1 km
surface 1.38 km²
Highest elevation 42  m ASL
Residents uninhabited

Little Bernera ( Scottish Gaelic Bearnaraigh Beag ) is a Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides . It is located in the council area of the same name and was historically part of the traditional county of Ross-shire , or the administrative county of Ross and Cromarty .

geography

Little Bernera is located in Loch Roag Bay off the Isle of Lewis . It is only separated from the neighboring island of Great Bernera by a waterway almost 40 meters wide .

The island covered by Machair has a maximum length of 1.9 kilometers and a width of one kilometer. It occupies an area of ​​138  hectares . Its highest point rises 42 meters above sea level. Little Bernera has four cuts running from southeast to northwest.

Listed ruins of the Beinn at Teampuill

history

The oldest traces of settlement on Little Bernera date back to the late Bronze Age . A settlement by Vikings has also been proven. The most recent traces of permanent settlement date from the 19th century. Two chapels on Little Bernera are mentioned in older reports. Possibly it is an early Christian location in Scotland.

Remains of stone walls show the system of livestock farming on Little Bernera. The walls closed off the incisions in the island and thus kept the cattle trapped on their pastures in the valley. There was also a tapering wall system through which the cattle could be driven to the coast, from which they had to swim to the neighboring island.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  2. ↑ Bernera, Large and Little in: FH Groome (Ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882–1885.
  3. ↑ a b Measurement on Google Maps
  4. ↑ a b c d Entry on Tanganais  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  5. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  6. ↑ Entry on Teampull  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

Web links

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