Freswick links, caithness.: a re-appraisal of the late norse site in its context

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Viking Burials in Scotland: Two 'New' Boat Burial Finds

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Furnishing an early medieval monastery:New evidence from Iona

This paper describes and discusses the significance of a number of metalwork and glass finds from the important early medieval monastery on the island of Iona, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The finds mainly come from previously unpublished excavations, especially those by Charles Thomas from 1956–63. They include unique items such as an 8th-century lion figurine, and a 12th-century human head, both in copper alloy. These finds attest, for the first time, to the production of complex ecclesiastical metalwork such as reliquaries at Iona, and are some of the few such items to be recovered from excavated contexts. Fragments of early medieval window glass demonstrate that the buildings of the early monastery were more sophisticated than previously believed, and moulds and a reticella rod indicate decorative glass-working. A number of copper-alloy pins, strap-fittings and other decorative pieces of 9th- and 10th-century date show significant Norse-period occupation, and probably continuing metalworking traditions throughout the early medieval period. Taken together, these new finds begin to reveal that Iona was furnished with richly decorated shrines and reliquaries similar in sophistication to the illustrated manuscripts and sculptured monuments known to have been produced in the monastery

The nature of the feast: commensality and the politics of consumption in Viking Age and Early Medieval Northern Europe

In Early Medieval Northern Europe, food was more than mere sustenance. Rather, dietary choices were used to define and manipulate identity and shape power politics. Using the Norse Earldom of Orkney as a case study and commensality as an analytical framework, the authors explore how the archaeology of food, and in particular zooarchaeological evidence, can be used alongside near contemporary historical sources to better understand the political and social role of food, as well as the likely scale and impact of commensal activities on farming economies and environments in the Medieval North Atlantic. They argue that feasting and, by extension, the mechanisms by which preferentially consumed foodstuffs were grown, procured and processed, would have had a transformative impact on Norse society at diverse scales, from enabling individuals to participate in social negotiations to driving local and regional economies

Þinghald að fornu : fornleifarannsóknir 2003

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Kumlin hjá Litlu-Núpum í Aðaldal. Fornleifarannsókn 2004.

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Þinghald að fornu : fornleifarannsóknir 2003

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Worked stone

A consideration of a dated Post medieval stone assemblage from a clan stronghold at Dun Eistein, Ness (Isle of Lewis)

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Foreword

This is the introduction to a Publication deriving from a Heritage Lottery and Leader Funded Community Heritage Project. The project was put forward for National recognition