Excavations at Milla Skerra, Sandwick, UNST: rhythms of life on iron age Shetland
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 be...
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Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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adam_text | Contents
List of figures vm
List of tables x
Acknowledgements x
Summary xu
1. Uncovering Milla Skerra 1
Olivia Lelong
The lie of the land 1
Layers in the landscape 3
Fieldwork methods 4
2. The life and death of Milla Skerra 9
Olivia Lelong
Chronology 9
Phase 1: Intermittent activity - 3rd to early 1st millennia BC 10
Phase 2: The early settlement - 6th to 4th century BC 10
Phase 3: A midden heap covers the yard (5) - 4th to 3rd century BC 18
Phase 4: New yards and a house - 2nd to early 1st century BC 18
Phase 5: Continued occupation of the house (1) and remodelling of the yard (3) -
1st century BC to 1st century AD 28
Phase 6: The house (1) is abandoned while the yard (3) and cell (2) continue in use -
1st century AD 32
Phase 7: Final use of the yard (3) and cell (2) and an informal yard (6) in the ruins of
the house (1) - late 1st to 2nd century AD 34
Phase 8: Inundation - 2nd to 3rd century AD 38
Phase 9: The burial - 3rd to 4th century AD 39
Phase 10: A temporary camp and further burial - 5th to 6th century AD 41
3. Refining interpretations of the archaeological deposits 43
Brendan Derham, Clare Ellis and Jo McKenzie
Soil micromorphology analysis 43
Clare Ellis
Phosphate analysis 46
Jo McKenzie
Geochemical analysis 49
Brendan Derham
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Contents
Fires and food at Milla Skerra
Ruby Cerón-Carrasco, Brendan Derham, Jennifer Miller, Susan Ramsay and Catherine Smith
The carbonised plant remains
Jennifer Miller and Susan Ramsay
The mammal and bird remains
Catherine Smith
The fish remains
Ruby Cerón-Carrasco
Marine mol lusca, with notes on crustacean and echinoidea remains
Ruby Cerón-Carrasco
Geochemical analysis of pottery residues
Brendan Derham
The making, using and breaking of pots
Olivia Lelong and Beverley Ballin Smith
Methods
Fabrics
Evidence for manufacturing and firing
Vessel forms
Phase summary
Discussion
Catalogue of the illustrated pottery
Craftwork at Milla Skerra: metalworking and bone, stone and iron tools
Beverley Ballin Smith, Torben Bjarke Ballin, Ann Clarke, Amanda Forster,
Martin Goldberg, Fraser Hunter, Richard Jones, Olivia Lelong, Dawn McLaren
and Anthony Newton
The bog ore and slag
Dawn McLaren
The block tuyère
Amanda Forster and Dawn McLaren
Pumice artefacts
Beverley Ballin Smith
Provenance of the pumice
Anthony Newton
Re-worked pottery sherds
Olivia Lelong and Beverley Ballin Smith
Steatite artefacts
Amanda Forster
Heavy stone tools
Ann Clarke
Struck quartz
Torben Bjarke Ballin
Objects made of iron and bone
Martin Goldberg and Fraser Hunter
Contents vii
7. Technologies of the self: painted pebbles, ornaments and the burial 112
Martin Goldberg and Fraser Hunter, with contributions by Paul Duffy, Katharina Dulias, 11
Ceiridwen J. Edwards and Amanda Forster
Painted pebbles 112
Ornaments in shale, glass and marine ivory 112
The burial 113
Paul Duffy
Technologies of the self 118
Conclusions 118
8. Rhythms of life at Milla Skerra 120
Olivia Lelong
Building and rebuilding 120
Rhythms of food production and craft work 123
Middens and the significance of stuff 125
Seasonal rhythms 126
The character of the settlement 127
Life after death 130
Bibliography 133
Index 139
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