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Clachtoll - An Iron Age Broch Settlement in Assynt, North-west Scotland (Hardcover)
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Clachtoll - An Iron Age Broch Settlement in Assynt, North-west Scotland (Hardcover)
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Clachtoll broch is one of the most spectacular Iron Age settlements
on the northern mainland of Scotland. When it became clear that the
structure was threatened by coastal erosion, community heritage
group Historic Assynt launched a major programme of conservation
and excavation works designed to secure the vulnerable structure
and recover the archaeological evidence of its occupation and use.
The resulting excavation provided evidence of a long and complex
history of construction and rebuilding, with the final, middle Iron
Age occupation phase ending in a catastrophic fire and collapse of
the tower by the early years of the first century AD. The internal
deposits span perhaps 50 years of the broch’s final occupation
and were remarkably well preserved, with no evidence for secondary
re-use or disturbance after the fire. As a result, the excavation
provides a remarkable snapshot of life in Iron Age Scotland, with
an artefact assemblage attesting to daily agricultural life as well
as long-range contacts that sets the broch within a wider Atlantic
community. Specialist analysis of the artefactual and
palaeoenvironmental evidence coupled with detailed analysis of the
structure in its local geographical context combine to provide a
major new contribution to the archaeology of north-west Scotland,
with wider implications for our understanding of late prehistoric
society in northern Britain. This report comprises the results of
the archaeological investigations at Clachtoll, compiled by a team
of archaeologists and specialists from AOC Archaeology Group, and
brings together evidence from a range of specialist analyses as
well as environmental and landscape investigations.
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