Research Catalog

Title

Coastal erosion and the archaeological assessment of an eroding shoreline at St Boniface Church, Papa Westray, Orkney / Christopher Lowe ; with contributions from Sheila Boardman ... [et al.].

Author

Lowe, Christopher.

Publication

Phoenix Mill, Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton Publishing ; Edinburgh : Historic Scotland, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Boardman, Sheila.

Description

xvi, 215 p. : ill.; 31 cm.

Summary

"The excavation at St. Boniface Church, Papa Westray, Orkney was undertaken in May and June 1990 in response to the continuing threat of coastal erosion of the exposed cliff-section adjacent to the church." "This report traces the development of the settlement complex at St. Boniface church and describes the project design and its execution, against the archaeological and historical background to the site, and discussion and synthesis of its results."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

St Boniface Church Orkney

Subject

• Excavations (Archaeology) > Scotland > Papa Westray
• Coast changes > Scotland > Papa Westray
• Papa Westray (Scotland) > Antiquities
• Orkney (Scotland) > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-215).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Pt. 1 Physical, Historical and Archaeological Background (starting p. 1) -- Archaeological and Historical Background (starting p. 3) -- Pt. 2 Method and Survey (starting p. 13) -- Project Design (starting p. 13) -- Archaeological Survey (starting p. 17) -- Pt. 3 The Cliff-Section Excavation (starting p. 21) -- Excavated Structures, Features and Deposits (starting p. 23) -- Pt. 4 Chronology, Sequence and Phasing (starting p. 97) -- Radiocarbon Dating, Calibration and Statistical Analysis (starting p. 97) / Magnar Dalland -- The Artefactual Sequence (starting p. 108) -- Anthropogenic Content and the Ecofactual Sequence (starting p. 109) -- The Architectural Sequence (starting p. 113) -- Correlation of Dating Evidence (starting p. 114) -- Phasing and Connected Account (starting p. 114) -- Pt. 5 Material Culture (starting p. 125) -- The Coarse Pottery / Ann MacSween -- catalogue / Jenny Shiels -- geological identifications and comment (starting p. 125) / Dianne Dixon -- The Coarse Stone, Flint and Pumice (starting p. 133) / Ann Clark -- The Worked Bone and Antler (starting p. 139) / Graeme Wilson -- Metal Artefacts and Metalworking (starting p. 142) / Ann MacSween, Gerry McDonnell -- Lime Mortar (starting p. 144) / Christopher Lowe -- Pt. 6 The Palaeoenvironmental Evidence (starting p. 145) -- Human Bone (starting p. 145) / Daphne Home Lorimer -- Mammal Bone (starting p. 146) / Finbar McCormick -- Fish Bone (starting p. 149) / Ruby Ceron-Carrasco -- Bird Bone (starting p. 155) / Sheila Hamilton-Dyer -- The Crustacean Remains (starting p. 155) / Sheila Hamilton-Dyer -- Mollusc Shell (starting p. 156) / Stephen Carter -- The Charred Plant Remains (starting p. 157) / Sheila Boardman -- Carbonized Wood (starting p. 161) / Anne Crone -- Pollen Analysis of the Late Iron Age Buried Soil (starting p. 162) / Richard Tipping -- Diatoms (starting p. 169) / David G. Mann -- Soil Micromorphology (starting p. 172) / Stephen Carter -- Pt. 7 Discussion (starting p. 187) -- 'Farm Mounds' and the Formation of the Area 1 Sediments (starting p. 187) / Stephen Carter -- The Settlement Complex: Discussion and Overview (starting p. 199) -- Conclusion (starting p. 209) -- Bibliography (starting p. 211)

ISBN

0750917555

LCCN

^^^99170743^

OCLC

• 39963741
• SCSB-12255030

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library