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Book a self drive or rail package by March 31st.Bosta (Bostadh) Iron Age House is located in the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Herbrides part of Scotland. In 1993 in the midst of a great storm, the beach at Bostadh was reconfigured which it revealed a vast amount of stonework within the sand dunes. The site in 1996 was excavated and a series of preserved houses, some intact were founded. The main housing village of four properties were established and it was recognised that these would have been settled during the 6th-9th centuries AD (a period described variously as Late Iron Age, or Pictish-period.
During the excavation dig and all the environmental information that was found, it was able to produce a picture of the lifestyle that was had by villagers during that time, who lived by mixing farming, fishing, hunting and collecting seafood and sea birds. The site had a Viking house from which the name 'Bostadh' (meaning farm in Old Norse) presumably derived.
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