Outer Hebrides Road Trip: Great Bernera’s Iron Age Shore

A Storm Ripped This Beach Apart — What It Revealed Had Been Hidden for 2,000 Years
A violent storm tore the sand away at Bosta Beach and exposed the remains of an Iron Age village buried beneath the dunes for centuries.

0:00 To The Beach
7:14 Hidden In The Dunes
10:15 Reconstruction
14:12 Unfriendly Locals
16:48 Pigs
18:14 Next Time

In this episode, we head to Bosta Beach on Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides — a place where history quite literally emerged from the sand.
Bosta is also home to one of the UK’s Time and Tide Bells. These sculptural bells ring with the movement of the sea at high tide, acting as a reminder of the power of the ocean and rising sea levels.
There are currently 11 installed Time and Tide Bells around the UK coastline, with more planned.
We also tell the remarkable story of how a severe storm uncovered the remains of an Iron Age settlement that had been hidden beneath the dunes for over two millennia, and we take a look at the outside of the reconstructed Iron Age house built close to the original site.
Leaving Bosta, we stop to look at a couple of honesty boxes — guarded by some unfriendly locals — and meet a very chatty pig before leaving Great Bernera behind.

The episode ends as we leave the island, with a question that will be answered in the next video.

UK Time and Tide Bells (Installed)
Appledore, Devon – July 2009
https://maps.google.com/?q=Appledore+...
Bosta Beach, Great Bernera, Isle of Lewis – June 2010
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Trinity Buoy Wharf, London – September 2010
https://maps.google.com/?q=Trinity+Bu...
Aberdyfi, Gwynedd – July 2011
https://maps.google.com/?q=Aberdyfi+G...
Cemaes, Anglesey – April 2014
https://maps.google.com/?q=Cemaes+Ang...
Morecambe, Lancashire – March 2019
https://maps.google.com/?q=Morecambe+...
Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire – June 2019
https://maps.google.com/?q=Mablethorp...
Harwich, Essex – September 2022
https://maps.google.com/?q=Harwich+Essex
Par, Cornwall – April 2023
https://maps.google.com/?q=Par+Cornwall
Brixham, Devon – June 2023
https://maps.google.com/?q=Brixham+Devon
Happisburgh, Norfolk – July 2023
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