Excavations at Milla Skerra, Sandwick, UNST : rhythms of life in iron age Shetland / Olivia Lelong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lelong, Olivia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Iron age--Scotland.

Iron age.

Scotland--Antiquities.

Scotland.

Scotland--Unst.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK : Oxbow, [2019]

Summary:

"During the late 1st millennium BC into the early 1st millennium AD, the small island of Unst in the far north of the Shetland (and British) Isles was home to well-established and connected farming and fishing communities. The Iron Age settlement at Milla Skerra was occupied for at least 500 years before it was covered with storm-blown sand and abandoned. Although part of it had been lost to the sea, excavation revealed many details of the life of the settlement and how it was reused over many generations. From the middle of the 1st millennium BC people were constructing stone-walled yards and filling them with hearth waste and midden material. Later inhabitants built a house on top, with a paved floor and successive hearths, and more domestic rubbish accumulated inside it. Outside were new yards and workshops for crafts and metalworking, which were remodelled several times. The buildings fell into disrepair and became a dumping ground for domestic waste until the 2nd or 3rd century AD, when sand buried the settlement. Within a few generations, a man was buried beside the ruins along with some striking objects. Thousands of artefacts and environmental remains from Milla Skerra reveal the everyday practices and seasonal rhythms of the people that lived in this windswept and remote island settlement and their connections to both land and sea"-- Source other than Library of Congress

Contents:

Uncovering Milla Skerra / Olivia Lelong

The life and death of Milla Skerra / Olivia Lelong

Refining interpretations of the archaeological deposits / Brendan Derham, Clare Ellis and Jo McKenzie

Fires and food at Milla Skerra / Ruby Cer̤on-Carrasco, Brendan Derham, Jennifer Miller, Susan Ramsay and Catherine Smith

The making, using and breaking of pots / Olivia Lelong and Beverley Ballin Smith

Craftwork at Milla Skerra: metalworking and bone, stone and iron tools / Beverly Ballin Smith, Torben Bjarke Ballin, Ann Clarke, Amanda Forster, Martin Goldberg, Fraser Hunter, Richard Jones, Olivia Lelong, Dawn McLaren and Anthony Newton

Technologies of the self: painted pebbles, ornaments and the burial / Martin Goldberg and Fraser Hunter, with contributions by Paul Duffy, Katharina Dulias, Ceiridwen J. Edwards and Amanda Forster

Rhythms of life at Milla Skerra / Olivia Lelong.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785703447

1785703447

9781785703461

1785703463