n.a. (1994). 8. The material culture. In: n.e. Howe: Four Millennia of Orkney Prehistory Excavations 1978-1982. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. pp. 143-259.
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8. The material culture | ||
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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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143 - 259 | ||
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This chapter describes the wealth and nature of the material culture form the excavations. It is of necessity confined to the Iron Age phase: earlier chapters have indicated that the material culture of the preceding Neolithic and Bronze Age phases is limited to a very few stone and ceramic items. In addition to the buildings, the most durable evidence of habitation and life in the settlements was the range of artefacts. Those best preserved were of bone, stone, metal and ceramic. Although the organic material of skins, hides, wool, leather and other vegetable matter did not survive, tools found amongst the bone and inorganic artefacts indicate their presence during the Iron Age. Over 18,300 artefacts were recorded, and this number excludes the organic material. This is due to the exceptionally good preservation and the total excavation of occupation contexts such as floors and of the walls and rubble foundations on which structures were built. It must be borne in mind that some of the apparent differences may be a product of the proportionately greater clearance of existing settlements, especially severe at the beginning of Phase 7. Problems are also apparent when reviewing the archaeological material from the later phases. Repeated contemporary cleaning, demolition and clearing of buildings, and the reworking of rubble layers have left a disjointed and somewhat unsatisfactory artefact record. There are specialist reports on bone, stone, pumice, flint and chert, metal, slag, glass, pottery, fired clay and 19th-century artefacts. | ||
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1994 | ||
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0903903091 | ||
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