In the cemetery at Hallam on South Uist the dead have names and, occasionally, portraits. Their stones face eastwards over the autumn bronze peatlands to the rising sun and the hope of future resurrection. Below the modern graveyard an ancient one amongst the hummocking Atlantic sand-dunes. Over three thousand years ago peat mummified ancestors were resurrected by the anonymous Bronze Age islanders.
Celtic cross, Hallan Cemetery, South Uist
Atlantic Ocean beach at Hallam, South Uist
Passage from “Into The Peatlands” au Cladh Hallam, South Uist
Mumified skeleton, Cladh Hallam, South Uist
Robin A Crawford 