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MONOGRAPHS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND

Society Of Antiquaries Of Scotland Edinburgh 1982
Monograph Series Number 1

PICTISH AND NORSE FINDS FROM THE BROUGH OF BIRSAY 1934-74

Author: C.L. Curle
Illustration T. Borthwick
Appendix J.R. Hunter & C.D. Morris

CONTENTS

Preliminaries

Foreword by David M. Wilson

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

1 Introduction

2 Area II: The Pictish assemblage

The Pictish horizon

Isolated Pictish finds from below the lower Norse horizon

Pictish finds from Norse layers

Pictish find from the cemetery

3 Area II: The Norse assemblage

The lower Norse horizon

The middle Norse horizon

The upper Norse horizon

4 Area III: Isolated house sites W of Area I

5 Area I: The church and cemetery

6 Conclusions

7 Catalogue

Catalogue index

8 Appendix: Excavation of Room 5, Brough of Birsay, Clifftop Settlement
1973-4 J R Hunter and C D Morris

8:1 The site

8:2 Bone material T J Seller

8:3 Charcoal A M Donaldson

8:4 Shell F R Woodward

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