Cille Pheadair : A Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist

Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Cille Pheadair and the Norse period in South Uist: M. Parker Pearson -- 1. Previous research in Cille Pheadair township -- 2. The Viking Age and the Late Norse period i...

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Main Author: Parker Pearson, Michael (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited , 2018
Series:Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides Ser v.7
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Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Cille Pheadair : A Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist
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Summary:Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Cille Pheadair and the Norse period in South Uist: M. Parker Pearson -- 1. Previous research in Cille Pheadair township -- 2. The Viking Age and the Late Norse period in South Uist -- 3. The Viking Age and the Late Norse period in the Western Isles -- 4. The project's research design -- 5. The excavation 1996-1998 -- 6. This report -- 2. The Pictish burial cairn, cal AD 640-780: M. Parker Pearson -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The cairn -- 3. The burial -- 4. The small mammals in the burial -- 5. The human skeleton -- 6. Radiocarbon and stable isotope analysis -- 7. Combined lead, strontium and oxygen isotope analysis -- 8. Comparisons and discussion -- 3. Initial construction and occupation (phase 1), starting cal AD 945-1020: M. Parker Pearson and M. Brennand -- 1. Ploughing -- 2. The possible post-built structure -- 3. The sandbank and its stone revetment walls -- 4. The pits within the embanked enclosure -- 5. Soil micromorphology of windblown sand with ploughmarks (621) -- 6. Artefacts and other remains from the pits -- 7. Overview -- 4. The earliest deposits above the pits (phase 2), starting cal AD 945-1020: M. Parker Pearson and M. Brennand -- 1. Chronology and stratigraphy of the phase 2 features -- 2. Contexts within the sandbank enclosure -- 3. Contexts in the northern part of the sandbank enclosure and outside it -- 4. Outside the entranceway and east of the sandbank enclosure -- 5. The soil micromorphology of the levelling layer (600) -- 6. Artefacts and other remains from phase 2 -- 7. Overview -- 5. The first stone longhouse: House 700 (phase 3), constructed cal AD 1030-1095: M. Parker Pearson and M. Brennand -- 1. The house and its deposits -- 2. The spatial patterning of debris within the house floor.
24. Radiocarbon dating P. Marshall, M. Parker Pearson and G. Cook -- 25. The Cille Pheadair farmstead in its context -- 1. Politics and power in the Western Isles -- 2. The Norse-period farmstead at Cille Pheadair -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
3. Deposition outside the enclosure and the formation of the midden -- 4. The associated middens -- 5. Artefacts and other remains from the house and its associated deposits -- 6. Overview -- 6. The second stone longhouse: House 500 (phase 4), constructed cal AD 1060-1110: M. Parker Pearson and M. Brennand -- 1. The house and its deposits -- 2. The entrance and forecourt -- 3. The associated middens -- 4. The spatial patterning of debris within the house floor -- 5. Soil micromorphology of the house floor, floor of the north room, wall construction and midden -- 6. Artefacts and other remains from the house and its associated deposits -- 7. Small mammal bones from the floor of House 500 -- 8. Overview -- 7. Modification of House 500 (phase 5), rebuilt cal AD 1070-1125: M. Parker Pearson and M. Brennand -- 1. The house and its deposits -- 2. The outhouse (Structure 353) and the stack-base (421) -- 3. The middens -- 4. The spatial patterning of debris within hearth layer 503 -- 5. Artefacts and other remains from the longhouse, the outhouse and their associated deposits -- 6. Overview -- 8. The sheds (phase 6), constructed cal AD 1100-1155: M. Parker Pearson and M. Brennand -- 1. A break in the sequence of inhabitation -- 2. Pre-construction layers -- 3. Sheds 406 and 400, and their replacement Shed 365 -- 4. Construction of the sheds -- 5. The working floor or stack-base (350) -- 6. Abandonment deposits -- 7. The spatial patterning of debris within the shed floors -- 8. Soil micromorphology of the shed floor -- 9. Artefacts and other remains from the sheds and associated deposits -- 10. Overview -- 9. The east-west longhouse: House 312 (phase 7), constructed cal AD 1105-1160: M. Parker Pearson and M. Brennand -- 1. The house and its deposits -- 2. Outhouse 006 and its deposits -- 3. The spatial patterning of debris within the house and outhouse floors.
4. Soil micromorphology of the house floor -- 5. The midden deposits -- 6. Artefacts and other remains from the house and its associated deposits -- 7. Overview -- 10. The last longhouse: House 007 (phase 8), constructed cal AD 1140-1205: M. Parker Pearson and M. Brennand -- 1. The house and its deposits -- 2. Outhouse 006 (stages III/IV and V) and its deposits -- 3. The spatial patterning of debris within the house and outhouse floors -- 4. Soil micromorphology of the passageway into the house -- 5. Artefacts and other remains from the house and associated deposits -- 6. Overview -- 11. Reuse and abandonment of the ruins of House 007 (phase 9), ending cal AD 1160-1245: M. Parker Pearson and M. Brennand -- 1. Final use of the site -- 2. Hut 084/026 -- 3. Hut 075/031 -- 4. The spatial patterning of debris within the hut floors -- 5. Artefacts and other remains from the huts and associated deposits -- 6. The final use and abandonment of the site -- 12. The ceramics -- 1. The local pottery -- 2. The imported pottery -- 3. The other ceramic artefacts -- 13. The combs, ornaments, weights and coins C. Paterson with contributions by M. Parker Pearson and E. Besly -- 14. The bone and antler tools C. Paterson -- 15. The iron knives, tools and weapons M. Parker Pearson -- 16. The stone artefacts M. Parker Pearson -- 17. Industrial activity -- 1. Ironworking debris -- 2. Fuel ash slag -- 18. The faunal remains -- 1. The large mammals -- 2. The small mammals -- 3. The coprolites -- 4. Bone collagen stable isotope analysis -- 19. The faunal remains -- 1. The birds -- 2. The fish -- 20 The human remains A. Chamberlain -- 21. The carbonized plant remains and wood charcoal -- 1. The carbonized plant remains -- 2. The wood charcoal macroremains -- 22. Absorbed and visible organic residues: L. Cramp and R.P. Evershed -- 23. Soil micromorphology C. Ellis.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (650 pages)
ISBN:9781785708541

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