The Viking Age in Scotland: Studies in Scottish Scandinavian Archaeology

ISBN-13: 9781474485838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024

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Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; The Contributors; Preface; A Dedication to Colleen Batey; Foreword by Judith Jesch; Before Vikings in Scotland – A Brief History of Viking-age Archaeology in Scotland, Olwyn Owen; I. The Arrival of the Vikings and Native-Norse Interactions; 1. Landnám and Landscape in Viking Orkney, David Griffiths; 2. What Does Landnám Look Like? Excavations at Swandro and Old Scatness, Stephen J. Dockrill and Julie M. Bond; 3. The Tarbat peninsula in Northern Pictland: Portmahomack as a Case Study in Native-Norse Interaction during the 9th to 11th Centuries, Cecily Spall; 4. Echoes of Native-Norse Relationships in the Archaeology at St Ninian’s Isle, Shetland, Rachel Barrowman; II. Scandinavian Settlement; 5. The Use of Space in Norse Houses: Some Observations from the Hebrides, Niall Sharples; 6. Hamar and Underhoull, Unst: Settlement in Northernmost Scotland, Julie M. Bond and Stephen J. Dockrill; 7. Investigating the Origins of Steatite Vessels across the Viking Diaspora, Amanda K. Forster and Richard E. Jones; 8. Machair Bharabhais, Leòdhas: A Scandinavian Settlement in its Context, Mary Macleod Rivett and Trevor Cowie; III. Place-names: Interactions with the Landscape; 9. Norse Settlement in the Southern Hebrides: The Place-name Evidence from Islay, Alan Macniven; 10. Understanding the Norse Period through Place-names Evidence: A Case Study from the Island of Mull, Alasdair C. Whyte; 11. The Church and Gaelic-Norse Contact in the Hebrides, Thomas Owen Clancy; IV. Environmental impact and Land Use; 12. Isotope Zooarchaeology in Viking Scotland: Previous Research, Possibilities and Future Directions, Jennifer R. Jones; 13. Feasts, Food and Fodder: Viking and Late Norse Farming Systems in Scotland, Ingrid Mainland; 14. Norse Shielings in Scotland: An Example of Cultural Contact, Ryan Foster; V. Power and the Political Landscape; 15. Thing-sites and the Political Landscape in the North, Alexandra Sanmark; 16. The Brough of Birsay, Orkney, Christopher D. Morris; 17. The Earl’s Bu, Orphir, Orkney, Colleen E. Batey; 18. Revisiting Tuquoy - Still Full of Surprises…, Olwyn Owen; 19. The Lewis Hoard of Gaming Pieces – Evoking and Reassembling a Viking past?, Mark A. Hall and David H. Caldwell; VI. Economy and Exchange; 20. The Viking-Age Silver and Gold of Scotland, James Graham-Campbell; 21. The Galloway Hoard, Martin Goldberg; 22. Viking and Norse Bullion Economies in Scandinavian Scotland, Tom Horne; 23. Small Finds, Big Questions: Two Decades of Research on Combs in Viking-Age Scotland, Steven P. Ashby; VII. Death and Burial; 24. The 'Pagan Norse Graves of Scotland’ Research Project, James Graham-Campbell, Caroline Paterson and Stephen Harrison; 25. Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan: A Viking Boat Burial, Colleen E. Batey; 26. Carrick, Mid Ross: A Viking Cemetery on Loch Lomond, Colleen E. Batey; Afterword; Major Advances and Future Directions, Colleen E. Batey and James Graham-Campbell, Index.