A lake dwelling in its landscape : Iron Age settlement at Cults Loch, Castle Kennedy, Dumfries & Galloway /

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"Cults Loch, at Castle Kennedy in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, loch lies within a landscape rich in prehistoric cropmark sites and within the loch itself are two crannogs, one of which has been the focus of this study. A palisaded enclosure and a promontory fort on the shores of the loch...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Cavers, M. Graeme (Autor), Crone, Anne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2018.
Temas:
Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings > Scotland > Castle Kennedy.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Scotland > Castle Kennedy.
Iron age > Scotland > Castle Kennedy.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Iron age
Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings
Castle Kennedy (Scotland) > Antiquities.
Scotland > Castle Kennedy
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  • research framework
  • landscape setting; geology and hydrology
  • history of previous archaeological investigations at Cults Loch
  • Methodology
  • community initiative
  • Note on site labels
  • 2. Cults Loch 3; the promontory crannog
  • 2a. structural sequence
  • Phase 1 Construction of the crannog mound
  • Phase 2 Structure 1
  • Phase 3 Structure 2
  • Phase 3 Deposits and structures in the N quadrant
  • Phase 4 Structure 3
  • Phase 5 decay horizon
  • Access onto the crannog
  • trackway across the crannog
  • final act?
  • 2b. Chronology / Anne Crone
  • Introduction
  • Radiocarbon dating
  • Dendrochronological studies
  • 14C wiggle-match dating and the structural sequence at Cults Loch 3 / Gordon Cook
  • Comment / Graeme Cavers
  • 2c. Ecofact analyses
  • Introduction
  • Phase 1 crannog mound
  • Phase 2 Structure 1
  • Phase 3 Structure 2
  • Phase 3 Deposits in the N quadrant
  • Phase 4 Structure 3
  • Phase 5 decay horizon
  • Deposits off the crannog mound
  • macroplant assemblage / Jackaline Robertson
  • Insect remains / Enid Allison
  • Micromorphology / Lynne Roy
  • 2d. artefact assemblage
  • wooden artefacts / Anne Crone
  • shale / Fraser Hunter
  • glass bead / Fraser Hunter
  • coarse stone / Dawn McLaren
  • chipped stone assemblage / Rob Engl
  • burnt clay / Dawn McLaren
  • Synthesis of the material culture from Cults Loch 3 / Dawn McLaren
  • 2e. structural timbers
  • Introduction
  • Vertical components
  • Horizontal components
  • Woodworking debris
  • Charred timbers
  • Discussion
  • Wood use on the crannog
  • 2f. Summary of evidence for construction and occupation on Cults Loch 3
  • Duration and continuity
  • Construction
  • floor surfaces and living conditions on the crannog
  • Domestic and agricultural activities
  • 3. Cults Loch 4; the promontory fort
  • Introduction
  • Aerial photography
  • Geophysical survey / Tessa Poller
  • Excavation results
  • Neolithic activity
  • Bronze Age activity and the early phase of enclosure
  • earlier Iron Age enclosures
  • Interior features
  • Environmental remains / Jackaline Robertson
  • form and function of the enclosure
  • Inland promontory forts
  • 4. Cults Loch 5; the palisaded enclosure
  • Introduction
  • Geophysical survey / Graeme Cavers
  • Excavation results
  • Earlier prehistoric features
  • Phase 1
  • Phase 2
  • Other features within the enclosure
  • Modern features
  • Chronology
  • Material culture
  • coarse stone / Dawn McLaren
  • Ceramic and vitrified material / Dawn McLaren
  • Environmental remains / Jackaline Robertson
  • Cults Loch 5; discussion
  • 5. Cults Loch 2 and Cults Loch 6
  • Cults Loch 2; the knoll
  • Cults Loch 6; the pits
  • Discussion
  • 6. Radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling of Cults Loch 3, 4 and 5 / Tony Krus
  • Methodological approach
  • Cults Loch 3; the crannog
  • Cults Loch 4; the promontory fort
  • Cults Loch 5; the palisaded enclosure
  • Discussion
  • 7. material world of Iron Age Wigtownshire / Gemma Cruickshanks
  • Introduction
  • Luce Sands
  • Material patterns
  • Stone
  • Iron and ironworking
  • Copper alloys and their manufacture
  • Decoration and adornment
  • Contacts
  • Artefacts and society
  • Roman world
  • Conclusions
  • 8. environment in and around Cults Loch
  • 8a. offsite palaeoenvironmental programme / Ciara Clarke
  • Background
  • Reconnaissance
  • Sampling
  • Core TCL1; age-depth model
  • Lake ecology
  • Discussion and conclusions
  • 8b. on-site evidence for the environment around Cults Loch
  • 9. Liminal living in a dynamic landscape?
  • 9a. Cults Loch 3; chronology, form and functionality
  • Chronology
  • Form
  • Functionality; or reasons for living out on the water
  • 9b. sites in their local and national context; the later prehistoric settlement record of Wigtownshire
  • Settlement development in the 1st millennium BC in southern Scotland
  • earlier Iron Age settlement landscape in SW Scotland
  • Cults Loch landscape: settlement, duration and evolution 500-0 BC
  • Architectural forms in the Cults Loch settlements
  • 10. Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Appendices
  • 1. Cults Loch 3; the environmental assemblages / Jackaline Robertson
  • 2. Cults Loch 3; the insect remains / Enid Allison
  • 3. Cults Loch 3; soil micromorphology / Lynne Roy
  • 4. Analysis of the glass bead / Mary Davis
  • 5. Summary of finds from Wigtownshire Iron Age sites
  • 6. Stray finds of certain or likely Iron Age date from Wigtownshire.

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