A late iron age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides : excavations at Mound 1, Bornais, South Uist / / edited by Niall Sharples ; with contributions by J Bond ... [et al.]
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| Titolo: |
A late iron age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides : excavations at Mound 1, Bornais, South Uist / / edited by Niall Sharples ; with contributions by J Bond ... [et al.]
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxbow Books |
| Oakville, Conn., : David Brown Book Co., 2012 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (441 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 936.1/14 |
| 936.114 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Excavations (Archaeology) - Scotland - South Uist |
| Farms - Scotland - South Uist | |
| Soggetto geografico: | South Uist (Scotland) Antiquities |
| Western Isles (Scotland) Antiquities | |
| Altri autori: |
SharplesNiall M
BondJ (Jerry)
SharplesNiall M.
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| Note generali: | A companion volume to A Norse farmstead in the Outer Hebrides : excavation at Mound 3, Bornais, south Uist, edited by Niall Sharples. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Illustrations; Tables; List of Contributors; English-Gaelic glossary of place-names; 1 Bornais and the Iron Age; 2 The Late Iron Age settlement; 3 Norse reoccupation; 4 Comparative analysis of the site assemblage; 5 Chronology; 6 Resource exploitation; 7 Site activities; 8 Discussion; Appendix 1: The context list - N Sharples; Appendix 2: Artefact catalogue - A Clarke, P Macdonald and A Smith; Appendix 3: Flint catalogue - A Pannett; Appendix 4: Catalogue of illustrated pottery - A Lane; Appendix 5: Revisions to the mound 3 chronology - P Marshall; References; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The settlement at Bornais consists of a complex of mounds which protrude from the relatively flat machair plain in the township of Bornais on the island of South Uist. This sandy plain has proved an attractive settlement from the Beaker period onwards; it appears to have been intensively occupied from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Norse period. Mound 1 was the original location for settlement in this part of the machair plain; pre-Viking activity of some complexity is present and it is likely that the settlement activity started in the Middle Iron Age, if not earlier. The examination o |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A late iron age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides |
| ISBN: | 1-84217-927-6 |
| 1-84217-929-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910552996903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Cardiff studies in archaeology.