A 2,000-year-old underground chamber has been uncovered during work to build a house on the Isle of Lewis.
The Iron Age soutterrain was revealed during the digging of the foundations for the property in Ness.
Local archaeologists, husband and wife team Chris and Rachel Barrowman, are recording the soutterrain.
Mr Barrowman said theories on the purpose of the stone-lined, flat stone-roofed structures included storing food.
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