Dig at ruins uncovered by storm (UK)

Archaeologists are excavating the remains of houses believed to date back 2,000 years after they were uncovered by a ferocious storm. Fife-based charity Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion (Scape) is leading a community project at the site on North Uist.

Scape is investigating the suspected Iron Age round houses before they vanish in another powerful storm.

The organisation is also carrying out work at another historic site in Brora.

Violent weather exposed the ruined houses at Baile Sear, North Uist, in January 2005.