n.a. (1994). Howe: four millennia of Orkney prehistory, excavations 1978--1982. In: n.e. Howe: Four Millennia of Orkney Prehistory Excavations 1978-1982. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. pp. 1-305.
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Howe: four millennia of Orkney prehistory, excavations 1978--1982 | ||
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Howe: Four Millennia of Orkney Prehistory Excavations 1978-1982 | ||
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series | ||
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09 | ||
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305 | ||
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1 - 305 | ||
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Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report |
The excavation at Howe, Stromness, Orkney, was one of the largest and most complex undertaken in Scotland at the time. It provided a hitherto unparalleled opportunity to excavate fully the remains of a broch settlement. The discovery of earlier Neolithic structures and enclosed Early Iron Age settlements added importance to the site. The earliest levels, a sequence of fragmentary structures, were dated by incorporation of material of Neolithic type and the nature of the structures, including a stalled tomb and a Maeshowe chambered tomb, comparable to others of the period on Orkney in the fourth and third millennia BC. Sherds of Beaker pottery suggest some activity probably around the turn of the second millennium, but no Bronze Age phase as such could be identified. Occupation resumed in the Early Iron Age (eighth---fourth centuries BC). The first of three major structural complexes, the roundhouse, has brackets of occupation somewhere between the fourth and third centuries. There was no direct radiocarbon dating evidence for the first broch, which overlay the roundhouse; extrapolation from the earliest dates for the second broch put its construction and occupation in the second and first centuries cal BC. This Middle Iron Age broch and settlement was the most massive and best preserved of the structural complexes, overlying and partly destroying the earlier evidence; first to fourth centuries cal AD cover a number of periods of collapse and rebuilding. The later Iron Age farmstead occupied a period from fourth to seventh or eighth centuries cal AD. | ||
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1994 | ||
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0903903091 | ||
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