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Cille Pheadair - A Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist (Hardcover)
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Cille Pheadair - A Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist (Hardcover)
Series: Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides, 7
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Cille Pheadair is one of more than 20 Viking Age and Late Norse
settlements discovered on the island of South Uist in the Outer
Hebrides (Western Isles), off the west coast of Scotland. Its
unusually well-preserved stratigraphic sequence of nine phases of
occupation, including five longhouses and many smaller buildings,
provides a remarkable insight into daily life on a Norse farmstead
during two centuries of near-continuous occupation c. AD 1000
-1200. Although the excavation at Cille Pheadair was a rescue
project undertaken before the site was destroyed by coastal
erosion, it provided an opportunity to address important research
questions about the domestic use of space, agricultural economy,
and relationships with the wider world beyond the Outer Hebrides.
Careful and ground-breaking analysis of preserved house floors
provided profound insights into the changing use of space within a
Norse longhouse and its surrounding outbuildings. The rich
assemblage of pottery, ironwork, gold and silver reveals that the
inhabitants of Cille Pheadair had long-distance connections across
the Viking world. A battery of scientific studies, including faunal
and floral analyses, isotopic and lipid residue analyses, and soil
chemistry, have revealed much about the social and economic
dimensions of life on a Norse farm. Detailed survey and excavation
in South Uist, reveals a remarkable picture of Norse-period
settlement across this island which was part of the insular Viking
world between Ireland and Norway, becoming part of the Kingdom of
Man and later the Kingdom of the Isles. Cille Pheadair's status as
an ordinary, if wealthy, farmstead can be contrasted with the much
larger and longer-lived high-status settlement at Bornais to the
north. The two sites together provide a fascinating insight into
similarities and differences within the settlement hierarchy of the
time that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of
the Viking world.
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