n.a. (1999). The Biggings Papa Stour Shetland: the history and archaeology of a royal Norwegian farm. In: n.e. The Biggings Papa Stour Shetland: the history and archaeology of a royal Norwegian farm. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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The Biggings Papa Stour Shetland: the history and archaeology of a royal Norwegian farm | ||||||
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The Biggings Papa Stour Shetland: the history and archaeology of a royal Norwegian farm | ||||||
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series | ||||||
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15 | ||||||
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268 | ||||||
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This study of a royal Norwegian farm on the Shetland island of Papa Stour was inspired by a document of 1299 recording the meeting between a Norwegian royal official and a woman who had accused him of treachery to his royal master. Place-name evidence suggested that the building where this meeting took place (described as the 'stofa', a log-timbered house imported from Norway) was most probably located at the Biggings, on the east of the island. Excavations there between 1977 and 1990 uncovered evidence for a succession of buildings, amongst them a timber-built structure whose style and dating identified it as the 'stofa' of the 1299 document. This volume details this and the other structures preserved on the site as well as the range of artefacts, including wood and textiles, pottery and steatite vessels, and the micro- and macro-botanical material. it places the archaeological evidence from the site against the background of the changing political and economic history of Shetland in its Norwegian, Hanseatic and Scottish phases, providing an insight into the story of this enduring community from its high-status moment as an important centre of Norwegian administration through to its 19th-century decline and survival into the present day. | ||||||
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1999 | ||||||
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0 903903 15 6 | ||||||
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19 Jan 2009 |
