Buckquoy, Orkney

Addressing the Pictish-Viking transition in northern Scotland

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6415313
AutoresGordon Noble (0000-0003-4670-5658, University of Aberdeen), David Griffiths (0000-0002-4162-9804, University of Oxford), Charlotta Hillerdal (0000-0001-5778-6153, University of Aberdeen), Jennifer Allison (0000-0003-3533-5639, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland), Derek Hamilton (0000-0003-4019-3823, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), University of Glasgow), Colleen Batey (0000-0002-0384-014X, University of the Highlands and Islands)
Año2025
Volumen99
Número408
Páginas1623-1639
Fecha de publicación2025-10-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditorialAntiquity Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15184/aqy.2025.10231
OpenAlexW4415692319
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas14

An increase in knowledge is usually beneficial but can also highlight misapprehensions of existing data. Such is the case for the Pictish-Norse transition in Northern Scotland in the later first millennium AD. New radiocarbon dates from the key ‘transitional’ settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney, reveal that traits previously published as indicative of incoming Norse influence pre-date the start of the Viking Age, suggesting a greater level of endogenous change than hitherto has been appreciated. Here, the authors underscore the need for a re-evaluation of other settlement sequences across the later Pictish and early Norse periods, reopening many questions about the transition