Nigel D Melton
Biographic Data
| ID | 2429185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nigel D Melton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nigel D |
| FAMILY NAME | Melton |
| SIGNATURE | MELTON N D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On the Curious Date of the Rylstone Log-Coffin Burial
Radiocarbon dates have been obtained from a log-coffin burial excavated in 1864 by Canon William Greenwell from a ditched round barrow at Scale House, near Rylstone, North Yorkshire. The oak tree-trunk coffin had contained an extended body wrapped in a wool textile. The body had entirely decayed and there were no other extant grave goods. In the absence of other grave goods, Greenwell attributed the burial to the Bronze Age because it lay under a…
Strategic and sporadic marine consumption at the onset of the Neolithic
Stable isotope analysis has provided crucial new insights into dietary change at the Neolithic transition in north-west Europe, indicating an unexpectedly sudden and radical shift from marine to terrestrial resources in coastal and island locations. Investigations of early Neolithic skeletal material from Sumburgh on Shetland, at the far-flung margins of the Neolithic world, suggest that this general pattern may mask significant subtle detail. An…
A possible 17th-century Scottish merchants' booth at Eastshore, Dunrossness, Shetland
The paper identifies and describes a building at Brough Head, Eastshore, Dunrossness, Shetland and suggests that it is likely to be a seventeenth-century Scottish merchants' booth. Documentary evidence for the activities of Scottish merchants at Eastshore in the seventeenth century is outlined in order to present a context for the possible identification of the building
Post-medieval spindle whorls in the Northern Isles
Recent excavations by the University of Bradford and Shetland Amenity Trust at Old Scatness, Shetland, have resulted in the recovery of a number of spindle whorls made with reworked potsherds dating from the 17th and 18th centuries.This note describes these examples, together with other unpublished examples from elsewhere in Orkney and Shetland.The re-fashioning of potsherds as spindle whorls is briefly considered within a regional context
Strategic and sporadic marine consumption at the onset of the Neolithic
Stable isotope analysis has provided crucial new insights into dietary change at the Neolithic transition in north-west Europe, indicating an unexpectedly sudden and radical shift from marine to terrestrial resources in coastal and island locations. Investigations of early Neolithic skeletal material from Sumburgh on Shetland, at the far-flung margins of the Neolithic world, suggest that this general pattern may mask significant subtle detail. An…
On the Curious Date of the Rylstone Log-Coffin Burial
Radiocarbon dates have been obtained from a log-coffin burial excavated in 1864 by Canon William Greenwell from a ditched round barrow at Scale House, near Rylstone, North Yorkshire. The oak tree-trunk coffin had contained an extended body wrapped in a wool textile. The body had entirely decayed and there were no other extant grave goods. In the absence of other grave goods, Greenwell attributed the burial to the Bronze Age because it lay under a…
Post-medieval spindle whorls in the Northern Isles
Recent excavations by the University of Bradford and Shetland Amenity Trust at Old Scatness, Shetland, have resulted in the recovery of a number of spindle whorls made with reworked potsherds dating from the 17th and 18th centuries.This note describes these examples, together with other unpublished examples from elsewhere in Orkney and Shetland.The re-fashioning of potsherds as spindle whorls is briefly considered within a regional context
A possible 17th-century Scottish merchants' booth at Eastshore, Dunrossness, Shetland
The paper identifies and describes a building at Brough Head, Eastshore, Dunrossness, Shetland and suggests that it is likely to be a seventeenth-century Scottish merchants' booth. Documentary evidence for the activities of Scottish merchants at Eastshore in the seventeenth century is outlined in order to present a context for the possible identification of the building
Strategic and sporadic marine consumption at the onset of the Neolithic
Stable isotope analysis has provided crucial new insights into dietary change at the Neolithic transition in north-west Europe, indicating an unexpectedly sudden and radical shift from marine to terrestrial resources in coastal and island locations. Investigations of early Neolithic skeletal material from Sumburgh on Shetland, at the far-flung margins of the Neolithic world, suggest that this general pattern may mask significant subtle detail. An…
On the Curious Date of the Rylstone Log-Coffin Burial
Radiocarbon dates have been obtained from a log-coffin burial excavated in 1864 by Canon William Greenwell from a ditched round barrow at Scale House, near Rylstone, North Yorkshire. The oak tree-trunk coffin had contained an extended body wrapped in a wool textile. The body had entirely decayed and there were no other extant grave goods. In the absence of other grave goods, Greenwell attributed the burial to the Bronze Age because it lay under a…
Geography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Shetland (2 works)