Olwyn Owen

Biographic Data

ID5704419
NAMEOlwyn Owen
GIVEN NAMESOlwyn
FAMILY NAMEOwen
SIGNATUREOWEN O
AFFILIATIONSHistoric Environment Scotland
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Revisiting Tuquoy – Still Full of Surprises …

    Olwyn OwenCHAPTERViking Age in Scotland2023

    This chapter reports on the excavations and survey undertaken at Tuquoy, in Westray, Orkney, in the 1980s and early 1990s, which produced evidence for a high-status Norse farmstead and settlement situated adjacent to the medieval church of Crosskirk. Advances in survey and sampling techniques identified extensive building remains, and collected a wealth of palaeoenvironmental and artefactual evidence, including metalwork and bone dress ornaments,…

  • Later Prehistoric and Norse Communities in the Northern Isles

    Scott Timpany, Tim Mighall et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2020References: 27

    Little is known about the impact that Norse communities had on the landscape of Orkney. To redress this, a palaeoenvironmental investigation was conducted from the infilled Loch of Tuquoy, a basin located close to the high-status Norse farmstead and Crosskirk at Tuquoy on Westray, Orkney. Pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, microscopic charcoal, sediment geochemistry and mineral magnetic measurements were performed on a 2.25 m core. The results sugg…

  • The Scar Boat Burial — and the Missing Decades of the Early Viking Age in Orkney and Shetland

    Olwyn OwenCHAPTERScandinavia and Europe 800-13502004

    This volume examines the various forms of contact between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe from 800 to 1350. It consists of twenty-five papers from international scholars specialising in archaeology, onomastics, literature, art history, epigraphy, religious history and linguistics. The volume is innovative in three respects: (i) in transcending conventional historical boundaries, by bringing together work on both the viking and medieval periods…

  • Sound foundations

    Open AccessOlwyn Owens, Olwyn OwenARTICLEAntiquity2002References: 9

    We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.T.S. ELIOTIntroductionThink of Scotland. The chances are that what springs to mind is a picture of mountains, lochs, glens and coasts - an outstanding natural heritage which uplifts the spirit and overflows the pages of the tourist brochures. Paradoxically, though, modern Scotland has an urban heart, with its …

  • The discovery of medieval deposits beneath the Earl's Palace, Kirkwall, Orkney

    Eoin McB Cox, Olwyn Owen et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…1999

    Discusses the 1982 archaeological investigations below the tennis courts and walls of the seventeenth-century palace which revealed a range of medieval features and deposits probably associated with the earlier Bishop's Palace or Palace of the Yards. A major find of the excavations was a wooden Scandinavian-type comb and it is suggested that it may have been brought from Trondheim in Norway in the thirteenth century (given the close connection be…

  • Historic Scotland's Backlog Project and the Projects Database

    Gordon J Barclay, Olwyn OwenARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…1996Cited by: 2

    The removal of the backlog of unpublished excavations funded or encouraged by Historic Scotland over the last two decades has been managed within the normal rescue archaeology programme. Sympathetic help has been offered to the directors of these excavations, and the potential problem of a ‘logjam’ in publication will be overcome

  • A traveller's end? - an associated group of Early Historic artefacts from Carronbridge, Dumfries & Galloway

    Olwyn Owen, Richard Welander et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…1996

  • Carronbridge, Dumfries and Galloway

    Daniel A Johnston, Lindsay Allason‐Jones et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…1995Cited by: 1

    Cropmarks of a square, double-ditched Iron Age/Romano-British enclosure, a Roman temporary camp and another sub-rectangular enclosure were excavated in advance of road building. All the monuments were plough damaged. The square enclosure had three main enclosure phases. It contained six intersecting circular buildings, one of which was surrounded by a large ditch and three large sunken features with complex, charcoal-rich fills. A cobbled surface…

  • A Runic Inscription from Tuquoy, Westray, Orkney

    Olwyn Owen, John MckinnellARTICLEMedieval Archaeology1989

    A RUNE-INSCRIBED STONE was found built into the partition wall of a substantial ‘hall-like’ structure. It is translated ‘Porsteinn Einarsson cawed these runes’

  • Kebister, Shetland

    Olwyn Owen, Brian Smith et al.ARTICLEPost-Medieval Archaeology1988Cited by: 1References: 1

    At Kebister, Shetland, a settlement site spanning from the Neolithic to the 19th century was surveyed and excavated between 1985 and 1987, in advance of oil-related developments. Among the surface mounds visible before excavation, the only clearly delineated feature was a large rectangular structure which proved to be of post-medieval date. In 1986, an elaborately carved armorial stone was discovered, lying face down immediately outside the sole …

  • Skaill, Sandwick, Orkney

    Open AccessChristopher D Morris, NORMAN EMERY et al.ARTICLEGlasgow Archaeological Journal1985

    A large mound-site near Skara Brae has been subject to severe erosion. Surveys of the site have been undertaken and major structural elements recognised. It is a ‘settlement mound’ as recently recognised elsewhere in Orkney, but in addition probably had a Viking grave placed in it. Earlier structural elements are undated and may be early prehistoric. The site is considered against the context of the archaeology of the Bay of Skaill