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. |
المحتوى
Excavation of an inhumation above the centre of the broch | 4 |
Phase 1 activity | 11 |
The cremation after the removal of the eastern edge | 12 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
animal bones antler Archaeol artefacts Ash layer assemblage barley block broch wall Bronze Age Brough of Birsay cattle century Ceramics Cetacean clay Clickhimin Cobble group comb contexts and finds copper alloy Crosskirk crucible decoration deposits Disc distribution ditch Dunadd evidence excavation Fish bones Fojut forthcoming fragments g waste grains group A Sandstone hearth indicate inside the broch Jarlshof Kebister Late Iron Age late phase material metal metalworking midden Middle Iron Age mould Norse Northern Isles objects occupation Orkney painted pebbles pelitic perforated Pictish plant remains Pollachius pottery Pounder/grinder present Proc Soc Antiq quern radiocarbon dates recovered red ash Revetment Rubble layer 7.1 samples Sandstone scapula Schist Schist pelitic Scotland settlement sheep sherds Shetland Siltstone similar skeleton slabs Soc Antiq Scot Soil layer species steatite structure suggests Table Upper Scalloway vertebrae vessels whorls wild worn