num_pages: 235
description: This excavation report is important for understanding the Early Historic Settlement of the Northern Isles. It contains results and analysis from the 1989-90 excavations on a ridge overlooking Scalloway on Shetland. They revealed a pattern of intense activity since the 1st century BC, and prior evidence of a cremation burial, probably Bronze Age. Successive phases of occupation were identified into the medieval period, including a broch occupied up to the 8th century, which seems to have been a mixed farming community which practised metalwork. No Viking settlement was found on site, but finds suggest one to have been situated nearby. A shortlived cemetery, probably medieval, and the 17th-century site which continues in use today complete the picture.
language: English
title: Scalloway: A Broch, Late Iron Age Settlement and Medieval Cemetery In Shetland
titlecomplete: Scalloway: A Broch, Late Iron Age Settlement and Medieval Cemetery In Shetland (Cardiff Studies in Archaeology)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Oxbow Books