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The Temple Point Project

AaM is working with Harris Archaeology Group, one of fifteen other partners in an exciting new Landscape Partnership Scheme being taken forward by Harris Development Ltd. If successful, a raft of conservation projects will work with Harris community groups and individuals to safeguard and promote the unique heritage of the island.

Rubh 'An Teampull (Temple point) along the south west coast of Harris is arguably one of the UK’s most beautiful landscapes. Rubh 'An Teampull features the upstanding remains of Toe Head Temple, a small medieval chapel which overlies the remains of a broch and sits yards away from evidence for Mesolithic activity in the form of eroding coastal middens (the earliest settlement evidence in the Outer Hebrides).

The Chapel is in need of conservation and has been identified as one of the LPS projects to be led by local Harris Archaeology Group (HAG). HAG are working with Harris Development Ltd, AaM, and Birmingham University to develop their proposal to arrest the decline of the building and to carry out archaeological investigation into the eroding iron age deposits at the site.

HDL will hear the results of applications to fund the development phase of the project in October 2008.

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