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Children visiting and learning at St Kilda

Health issues in the ancient St Kilda

Narration of the ways communities at St Kilda managed diseases

Information about health in St Kilda during the outbreak of small pox

This pot has an unusual handle and an even more unusual attachment on the opposite side. It is very simply decorated with cut-away decoration around the body typical of material of the same period (Early to Middle Bronze Age), but the appendix and…

This jug dates to the beginning of the Iron Age. The black painted decoration resembles plant leaves or flowers. The body is barrel-shaped. It is also quite curious that half of the pot is reddish in colour; this might indicate that it was burned.

This is a Red-on-Black miniature bottle, probably used as a container for perfumes. It is dated at the Early Iron Age and is wheel made.