Settlements at Skaill, Deerness, Orkney: Excavations by Peter Gelling of the Prehistoric, Pictish, Viking and Later Periods, 1963-1981Detailed reports of the excavations carried out by Peter Gelling between 1963 and 1981. Five locations have been investigated, revealing a sequence of settlement from the Late Bronze Age to the post-medieval period. Published in the association with Historic Scotland. With contributions by Enid Allison, Jane Bellam, Sally Brooks, Judson Chesterman, Rachel Edwards, Peter Gelling, Raymond Lamb, Susan Limbrey, Jessica Lloyd-Jones, Gerry McDonnell, Rebecca Nicholson, Barbara Noddle and Deborah Porter. Illustrations by Jane Bellam, Sally Brooks, Mark Breedon, Henry Buglass, Nigel Dodds and Jessica Lloyd-Jones. The University of Birmingham 1997.
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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO THE NORSE SETTLEMENT Raymond Lamb | 13 |
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6th century antler ard-marks ard-points artefacts assemblage associated bead Birm bone pins broch Broken Brough of Birsay Buckquoy building burnishing burnt mound carinated catalogue century Chapter clay combs construction context decoration Deerness earlier east wall entrance everted rims evidence examples excavations at Skaill Fab Fab Fab fabric types Flagstone flat flat-rimmed fragments Gelling Gelling's hearth incised indicate interpretation inverted Iron Age Jarlshof Late Bronze Age Late Iron later layer Level material MD(perf medieval Midden Norse olivine Orkney Orkneyinga Saga paving perforation period phase Pictish ploughsoil possible pottery probably radiocarbon dates rectangular reindeer antler remains rims Type Room rough stone tools round house sand Sandstone sequence settlement shape sherds side similar slabs slightly small finds soil steatite stratigraphic structures suggests surface treatment surviving temper thick Thorkel trench unprovenanced Unstrat vessels Viking ware whorls