Settlements at Skaill, Deerness, Orkney : excavations by Peter Gelling of the prehistoric, Pictish, Viking and later periods, 1963-1981
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Settlements at Skaill, Deerness, Orkney : excavations by Peter Gelling of the prehistoric, Pictish, Viking and later periods, 1963-1981
(BAR British series, 260)
Archaeopress, 1997
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Bibliography : p. 271-276
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This study documents excavations by Peter Gelling of Prehistoric, Pictish, Viking and later remains at Skaill from 1963-1981. The earliest evidence of occupation was provided by ard-marks cut into the subsoil, which relate to cultivation in the Early-Middle Bronze Age. Two stone-built structures were also found, dating to the Late Bronze Age. Iron Age occupation centred on a substantial round house with adjoining structures. Continuity of occupation into the 7th/8th centuries was suggested by a handful of artefacts from both this and the Late Bronze Age settlement. Settlement of the Norse period was found at a third location, where a sequence of five superimposed buildings were uncovered and substantial remains of a medieval building overlay the Norse remains on another site.
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