380 research outputs found
English Heritage book of Maiden Castle
No full textMaiden Castle is Britain's largest hillfort. Based partly on the authors own excavations, this book provides a survey of this monument placing it in the context of the surrounding area and relating it to significant regional and national developments from the same period. "Maiden Castle" is written by Niall Sharples who is an archaeologist and was Director of the Maiden Castle project
Social Relations in Later Prehistory: Wessex in the First Millennium BC
No full textIn this fully illustrated study, Niall Sharples examine the complex social relationships of the Wessex region of southern England in the first millennium BC. He considers the nature of the landscape and manner of its organization, the methods that bring people together into large communities, the role of the individual, and how the region relates to other regions of Britain and Europe. These thematic concerns cover a detailed analysis of the significance of hillforts, the development of coinage and other exchange processes, the character of houses, and the nature of burial practices. Sharples offers an exciting new picture of a period and a region which has considerable importance for British archaeology, and he also provides all archaeologists interested in prehistory with a model of how later prehistoric society can be interpreted
The use of space in Norse houses: some observations from the Hebrides.
No full textIn this short chapter, I intend to briefly discuss the results of the recent excavation at the settlement of Bornais on the island of South Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland (Sharples 2005, 2012, 2020a and 2020b). The settlement at Bornais is located on the machair plain (a thick deposit of shell sand created by glacial activity) of the west coast of the island and is an unusually large settlement that covers approximately 4,625m² and comprises five discrete settlement mounds. The principal focus for the settlement is Mound 2, the largest settlement mound, in which excavation revealed a sequence..
Scalloway: A Broch, Late Iron Age Settlement and Medieval Cemetery
No full textThe Scalloway archive consists of stratigraphic reports and lists, finds catalogues and additional specialist reports resulting from excavations undertaken between 1989 and 1990 on a ridge overlooking Scalloway, on the island of Shetland. The excavations revealed evidence of occupation between the 1st century BC and the medieval period
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