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A Broch, Late Iron Age Settlement and Medieval Cemetery in Shetland
出版Oxbow Books, 1998
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralSocial Science / Archaeology
ISBN19001883769781900188371
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ReqAAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.