A lake dwelling in its landscape : Iron Age settlement at Cults Loch, Castle Kennedy, Dumfries & Galloway /
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Author / Creator: | Cavers, M. Graeme, author. |
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Imprint: | Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2018. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11761039 |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- research framework
- landscape setting; geology and hydrology
- history of previous archaeological investigations at Cults Loch
- Methodology
- community initiative
- Note on site labels
- 2. Cults Loch 3; the promontory crannog
- 2a. structural sequence
- Phase 1 Construction of the crannog mound
- Phase 2 Structure 1
- Phase 3 Structure 2
- Phase 3 Deposits and structures in the N quadrant
- Phase 4 Structure 3
- Phase 5 decay horizon
- Access onto the crannog
- trackway across the crannog
- final act?
- 2b. Chronology / Anne Crone
- Introduction
- Radiocarbon dating
- Dendrochronological studies
- 14C wiggle-match dating and the structural sequence at Cults Loch 3 / Gordon Cook
- Comment / Graeme Cavers
- 2c. Ecofact analyses
- Introduction
- Phase 1 crannog mound
- Phase 2 Structure 1
- Phase 3 Structure 2
- Phase 3 Deposits in the N quadrant
- Phase 4 Structure 3
- Phase 5 decay horizon
- Deposits off the crannog mound
- macroplant assemblage / Jackaline Robertson
- Insect remains / Enid Allison
- Micromorphology / Lynne Roy
- 2d. artefact assemblage
- wooden artefacts / Anne Crone
- shale / Fraser Hunter
- glass bead / Fraser Hunter
- coarse stone / Dawn McLaren
- chipped stone assemblage / Rob Engl
- burnt clay / Dawn McLaren
- Synthesis of the material culture from Cults Loch 3 / Dawn McLaren
- 2e. structural timbers
- Introduction
- Vertical components
- Horizontal components
- Woodworking debris
- Charred timbers
- Discussion
- Wood use on the crannog
- 2f. Summary of evidence for construction and occupation on Cults Loch 3
- Duration and continuity
- Construction
- floor surfaces and living conditions on the crannog
- Domestic and agricultural activities
- 3. Cults Loch 4; the promontory fort
- Introduction
- Aerial photography
- Geophysical survey / Tessa Poller
- Excavation results
- Neolithic activity
- Bronze Age activity and the early phase of enclosure
- earlier Iron Age enclosures
- Interior features
- Environmental remains / Jackaline Robertson
- form and function of the enclosure
- Inland promontory forts
- 4. Cults Loch 5; the palisaded enclosure
- Introduction
- Geophysical survey / Graeme Cavers
- Excavation results
- Earlier prehistoric features
- Phase 1
- Phase 2
- Other features within the enclosure
- Modern features
- Chronology
- Material culture
- coarse stone / Dawn McLaren
- Ceramic and vitrified material / Dawn McLaren
- Environmental remains / Jackaline Robertson
- Cults Loch 5; discussion
- 5. Cults Loch 2 and Cults Loch 6
- Cults Loch 2; the knoll
- Cults Loch 6; the pits
- Discussion
- 6. Radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling of Cults Loch 3, 4 and 5 / Tony Krus
- Methodological approach
- Cults Loch 3; the crannog
- Cults Loch 4; the promontory fort
- Cults Loch 5; the palisaded enclosure
- Discussion
- 7. material world of Iron Age Wigtownshire / Gemma Cruickshanks
- Introduction
- Luce Sands
- Material patterns
- Stone
- Iron and ironworking
- Copper alloys and their manufacture
- Decoration and adornment
- Contacts
- Artefacts and society
- Roman world
- Conclusions
- 8. environment in and around Cults Loch
- 8a. offsite palaeoenvironmental programme / Ciara Clarke
- Background
- Reconnaissance
- Sampling
- Core TCL1; age-depth model
- Lake ecology
- Discussion and conclusions
- 8b. on-site evidence for the environment around Cults Loch
- 9. Liminal living in a dynamic landscape?
- 9a. Cults Loch 3; chronology, form and functionality
- Chronology
- Form
- Functionality; or reasons for living out on the water
- 9b. sites in their local and national context; the later prehistoric settlement record of Wigtownshire
- Settlement development in the 1st millennium BC in southern Scotland
- earlier Iron Age settlement landscape in SW Scotland
- Cults Loch landscape: settlement, duration and evolution 500-0 BC
- Architectural forms in the Cults Loch settlements
- 10. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Appendices
- 1. Cults Loch 3; the environmental assemblages / Jackaline Robertson
- 2. Cults Loch 3; the insect remains / Enid Allison
- 3. Cults Loch 3; soil micromorphology / Lynne Roy
- 4. Analysis of the glass bead / Mary Davis
- 5. Summary of finds from Wigtownshire Iron Age sites
- 6. Stray finds of certain or likely Iron Age date from Wigtownshire.