Scalloway: A Broch, Late Iron Age Settlement and Medieval Cemetery in ShetlandOxbow Books, 1998 - 235 من الصفحات This excavation report is important for understanding the Early Historic Settlement of the Northern Isles. It contains results and analysis from the 1989-90 excavations on a ridge overlooking Scalloway on Shetland. They revealed a pattern of intense activity since the 1st century BC, and prior evidence of a cremation burial, probably Bronze Age. Successive phases of occupation were identified into the medieval period, including a broch occupied up to the 8th century, which seems to have been a mixed farming community which practised metalwork. No Viking settlement was found on site, but finds suggest one to have been situated nearby. A shortlived cemetery, probably medieval, and the 17th-century site which continues in use today complete the picture. |
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Phase 1 activity | 11 |
The Iron Age structural sequence 2220 | 20 |
13 | 49 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
activity alloy animal appear artefacts Ash layer assemblage associated barley block bone broch building cattle century clay cobble tool comb common complete construction contained contexts copper decoration deposits Disc discussed distinctive distribution ditch earlier early east evidence example excavation final finds fish fragments grains hearth identified important included indicate individuals Iron Age Isles Late Iron Age later material metal metalworking mould natural northern noted objects occupation occur original Orkney pebbles period phase pieces plant possible Post hole pottery present primary probably produced range recovered remains represent result Revetment Rubble layer samples Sandstone Scalloway Schist Scotland settlement shape sheep sherds Shetland side significant similar skeleton slabs Smith Soil layer species steatite stone structure suggests surface Table upper vessels wall weight wild