Excavations at Cill Donnain : a Bronze Age settlement and Iron Age wheelhouse in South Uist

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Excavations at Cill Donnain : a Bronze Age settlement and Iron Age wheelhouse in South Uist

Title remainder

a Bronze Age settlement and Iron Age wheelhouse in South Uist

Statement of responsibility

by Mike Parker Pearson and Marek Zvelebil ; with contributions by Sean Bell, Gordon Cook, Chris Cumberpatch, Martin Dearne, Irene Deluis, Karen Godden, Pam Grinter, John Hamshaw Thomas, Kate MacDonald, Peter Marshall, Eddie Moth, Jean Luc Schwenninger, Helen Smith, Saleem ul Haq, Soultana Maria Valamoti and Kim Vickers

Creator

• Parker Pearson, Michael, 1957-

Contributor

• Zvelebil, Marek

Subject

• Bronze age
• Bronze age -- Scotland | South Uist
• Dwellings
• Dwellings -- Scotland | South Uist
• Economics, Prehistoric
• Economics, Prehistoric -- Scotland | South Uist
• Electronic books
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Excavations (Archaeology) -- Scotland | South Uist
• HISTORY -- Ancient | General
• HISTORY / Europe / General
• Human ecology
• Human ecology -- Scotland | South Uist
• Human settlements
• Human settlements -- Scotland | South Uist
• Iron age
• Iron age -- Scotland | South Uist
• Material culture
• Material culture -- Scotland | South Uist
• Scotland -- South Uist
• Social archaeology
• Social archaeology -- Scotland | South Uist
• South Uist (Scotland) -- Antiquities
• Antiquities

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"The SEARCH (Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides) project began in 1987 and covers the Scotland's Outer Hebrides. The aim of the project is to investigate how human societies adapted in the long-term to the isolated environment of the Outer Hebrides. The first major excavation on South Uist discovered that what was thought to be a shell midden at Cill Donnain was in fact a wheelhouse, a type of dwelling used in the period c. 300 BC-AD 500, under which lay the remains of a Bronze Age settlement. This settlement was partly investigated by Marek Zvelebil in 1991 and then later by Mike Parker Pearson and Kate MacDonald in 2003. The site itself is situated at the foot of a high steep-sided dune on the eastern edge of a large sand valley, close to the western shore of Loch Cill Donnain. The archaeological report of the excavation at the Cill Donnain wheelhouse shows that, in comparison with contemporary neighbouring settlements, it was unlikely that each was an independent unit and that they were linked by social and economic inter-dependency. The wheelhouse thus provides striking new evidence that contributes to developing theories about the social, material and economic life in the period. This volume presents the extensive archaeological evidence found at the site, including pottery, faunal remains and a variety of bone and metal tools, illustrating that the Cill Donnain landscape is rich in archaeological sites of all periods from the Beaker to the post-Medieval"--Publisher's website

Member of

• Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides

Series volume

v. 9