Scalloway : a broch, late Iron Age settlement and medieval cemetery in Shetland /
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| Author / Creator: | Sharples, Niall M. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford, England : Oxbow Books, 1998. |
| Description: | viii, 235 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxbow monograph 82 Cardiff studies in archaeology |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4429711 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | viii, 235 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-227) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1900188376 |