Site Represents a site. Contact museums@eu-lac.org Status public Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Archaeological Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Udal Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource eulac3d Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2958 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,57.6812279,-7.3307711; Description An account of the resource Iain Crawford, a passionate archaeologist and ethnographer, influenced by the writings of Beveridge, decided to concentrate his searches in the 1960s on sites that might have been continuously inhabited over a very long period and yet were still visible. He wanted to get a clearer picture of daily life and work from the Mesolithic, through to the Bronze and Iron Ages, and onwards as close to the present day as possible. The two main sandhills, North and South, at Udal, gradually provided him with settlement remains which represent the rarity and importance of this site. The Udal South Mound revealed evidence of two stone built round houses or 'wheelhouses', now extremely vulnerable to the elements. Pottery shards, stone tools and some bronze and metal items, held by Glasgow University, show evidence of habitation from the Late Bronze Age through to the Late Iron Age. The Udal North hill takes the period of settlement up to Viking and Mediaeval times and the finds include jewellery and a Norse gold coin of Harald Hardrada. There is evidence of continuous settlement through to the 19th century and much more exciting excavation remains to be researched by the Udal project on this site of major historical significance. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 26/06/2023 Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Udal Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT