Archaeologists discover Iron Age dwelling on remote island

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a permanent settlement which could date back to the Iron Age on one of Europe's most inhospitable islands.

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a permanent settlement which could date back to the Iron Age on one of Europe's most inhospitable islands.

It had been thought that no people had lived on the St Kildan island of Boreray, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides in the Atlantic Ocean.

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