All Outputs (9)

A charcoal-rich horizon at Ø69, Greenland: Evidence for vegetation burning during the Norse landnám? (2013)
Journal Article
Bishop, R., Church, M., Dugmore, A., Madsen, C., & Møller, N. (2013). A charcoal-rich horizon at Ø69, Greenland: Evidence for vegetation burning during the Norse landnám?. Journal of Archaeological Science, 40(11), 3890-3902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.04.012

It is often assumed that the colonisation of Greenland by Norse settlers in c. A.D. 985 had a sudden and dramatic effect on the environment, involving substantial vegetation clearance and environmental degradation. Consequently, it has been argued th... Read More about A charcoal-rich horizon at Ø69, Greenland: Evidence for vegetation burning during the Norse landnám?.

Re-deposited cryptotephra layers in Holocene peats linked to anthropogenic activity (2013)
Journal Article
Swindles, G., Galloway, J., Outram, Z., Turner, K., Schofield, J., Newton, A., …Bashford, D. (2013). Re-deposited cryptotephra layers in Holocene peats linked to anthropogenic activity. Holocene, 23(10), 1493-1501. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683613489586

Tephra layers can form useful age-equivalent stratigraphic markers for correlating palaeoenvironmental sequences and they provide information about the spatio-temporal nature of past volcanic ash fall events. The use of microscopic ‘cryptotephra’ lay... Read More about Re-deposited cryptotephra layers in Holocene peats linked to anthropogenic activity.

The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands (2013)
Journal Article
Church, M., Arge, S., Edwards, K., Ascough, P., Bond, J., Cook, G., …Simpson, I. (2013). The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 77, 228-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.011

We report on the earliest archaeological evidence from the Faroe Islands, placing human colonization in the 4th–6th centuries AD, at least 300–500 years earlier than previously demonstrated archaeologically. The evidence consists of an extensive wind... Read More about The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands.

Pabaigh Mòr (2013)
Journal Article
Church, M., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2013). Pabaigh Mòr. Discovery and excavation in Scotland, 14,

Tràigh na Beirigh 9 (2013)
Journal Article
Snape-Kennedy, L., Church, M., Bishop, R., Clegg, C., Johnson, L., Piper, S., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2013). Tràigh na Beirigh 9. Discovery and excavation in Scotland, 14,

Tràigh na Beirigh 2 (2013)
Journal Article
Bishop, R., Church, M., Clegg, C., Johnson, L., Piper, S., Rowley-Conwy, P., & Snape-Kennedy, L. (2013). Tràigh na Beirigh 2. Discovery and excavation in Scotland, 14, 198-199

Gleann Mor Barabhais (2013)
Journal Article
Piper, S., Rowley-Conwy, P., & Church, M. (2013). Gleann Mor Barabhais. Discovery and excavation in Scotland, 14, 190-191

A special place in the saltings? Survey and excavation of an Iron Age estuarine islet at An Dunan, Lewis, Western Isles (2013)
Journal Article
Church, M., Nesbitt, C., & Gilmour, S. (2013). A special place in the saltings? Survey and excavation of an Iron Age estuarine islet at An Dunan, Lewis, Western Isles. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 143, 157-226

This is the third of a series of four papers that present the excavations undertaken on the Uig Peninsula,Isle of Lewis, as part of the Uig Landscape Project. We present the archaeological evidence from An Dunan, a causewayed tidal islet in the salt... Read More about A special place in the saltings? Survey and excavation of an Iron Age estuarine islet at An Dunan, Lewis, Western Isles.

Small-scale evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland (2013)
Journal Article
Nesbitt, C., Church, M., Gilmour, S., & Burgess, C. (2013). Small-scale evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland. Journal of the North Atlantic, 22, 1-19

This paper presents the results of the excavation of two dry-stone structures in the abandoned blackhouse village of Bereiro, near to the township of Crowlista, Isle of Lewis. The research was undertaken as part of a wider landscape project investiga... Read More about Small-scale evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland.