Timothy G Holden
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 245004 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Timothy G Holden |
| PRENOMES | Timothy G |
| SOBRENOME | Holden |
| ASSINATURA | HOLDEN T G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Oxford Archaeology |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Kisimul, Isle of Barra. Part 1
Kisimul Castle was taken into the guardianship of Historic Scotland in 2000 and in order to inform any future works for its upkeep a programme of archaeological evaluation, building recording and historical research was undertaken in 2001. Following on from this, a detailed programme of post-excavation analysis and research was conducted in 2011–12. The archaeological works revealed frustratingly little about the construction of the castle but di…
Brotchie's Steading, Dunnet, Caithness
Brotchie’s steading is a ruined croft house that is of particular interest because several large fragmentsof worked whale mandible were recently recovered from one of the rooms. These were identified ashaving supported the roof of the building as a pair of cruck blades (a Highland couple). The excavation programme was initially designed to further examine the role of whale bonesas a construction material within the context of the Caithness croft …
A possible Neolithic settlement at Kinbeachie, Black Isle, Highland
Account of the discovery and excavation of a site comprising a scatter of pits or post-holes, including a rectangular arrangement of post-holes interpreted as a timber building. Pottery, worked stone and carbonized crop plants were recovered and the site is interpreted as a relatively short-lived agricultural settlement. Radiocarbon dating suggests an occupation date of between 3,500 and 2,920 cal BC. The report discusses the wider issues of the …
New evidence for the origins and evolution of Dunbar
Report of an excavation in 1998 on the site previously occupied by the former lock house of a military barracks. A sequence of deposits was identified reflecting around 2,000 years of human influence. The earliest feature identified was a large ditch which may have formed part of the defences/enclosure system of the promontory fort previously identified at Castle Park. A rectangular building, probably contemporary with the Anglian occupation of t…
Three cists and a possible Roman road at Barbush Quarry, Dunblane, Perthshire
A concentration of archaeological features identified and excavated at the quarry included three short cists, one containing a cannel coal and jet disc-bead necklace and another a poorly-preserved skeleton and a Food Vessel. Finds appeared to be from the Early Bronze Age but a radiocarbon date from the skeletal material gave a later date of c. 2845 BP. Other finds included two parallel ditches associated with an area of packed gravel and cobbles …
No. 39 Arnol
The detailed recording of No. 39 Arnol was instigated by Historic Scotland prior to its consolidation as part of an extended visitor centre based around the nearby Blockhouse Museum at No. 42. Although occupied as a dwelling for a relatively short time, probably between the 1880s card 1920s, the building was modified many times. The original structure seems to have been constructed to a typical blackhouse pattern with an adjoining barn, byre/dwel…
Food for thought
A group of burnt mounds vulnerable to coastal erosion in Shetland was surveyed in Spring 1996. Rescue excavation conducted at one of these sites, Tangwick, uncovered a burnt mound in close association with a specialized, non-domestic structure of Bronze Age date. It is concluded that Tangwick represents a distinct site type, previously little recognized, and it is proposed that such sites may have been used for feasting, possibly on a seasonal ba…
The use of henbane ( Hyoscyamus niger L.) as a hallucinogen at Neolithic ‘ritual’ sites
Were drugs in use in prehistory? Recent claims for the use of hallucinogenic substances have been made, and caused a stir. However, new work on a Scottish Neolithic ceremonial site suggests archaeologists (and the media) may have been jumping to the wrong conclusions
Black Henbane (Hyoscyamus nigerL.) in the Scottish Neolithic
Excavation of a medieval grain-drying kiln and earlier mill-lade at Llanbryde, Moray
The remains of a series of ditches at Lhanbryde are interpreted as the remains of a mill-lade system.The northern end of the lade subsequently contained the remains of a possible grain-drying kiln from which burnt oats and a sherd of pottery indicate an llth-to 13th-century date
Excavation of Neolithic enclosures at Cowie Road, Bannockburn, Stirling, 1984-85
Excavations undertaken in 1984 and 1985 on cropmark sites identified as pit and post alignments revealed a bow-ended pit-defined enclosure dated to late-fifth to mid-fourth millennium BC, a post-defined enclosure dated to the mid-fourth to early-third millennium BC, and possible domestic activity. The pits of the enclosure showed up to three phases of use with deposits containing Carinated Bowl-type pottery in the later phases. Medieval or post m…
The excavation of Cairnwell ring-cairn, Portlethen, Aberdeenshire
The ring-cairn was completely excavated prior to its reconstruction nearby. The site originally comprised an arc of pits, in use by the Neo period (4320±80 BP -- GU-4402) surrounding a stone circle which may have been of similar date. After a long hiatus, a pyre was burnt within the stone circle (3070±60 BP -- GU-4399). A timber enclosure, with an entrance to the south, was then erected within the stone circle and five urned cremations interred i…
Excavation of a cropmark enclosure at Brixwold, (Dalhousie Mains), Bonnyrigg, Midlothian
Excavation recorded a large, sub-rectangular, ditched enclosure, previously identified from aerial photographic evidence as a cropmark. The deep U-shaped ditch contained waterlogged deposits with preserved organic materials. The radiocarbon dates obtained from waterlogged seeds in the ditch indicate two phases of activity, one in the fourth to second centuries BC and one in the first to second centuries AD. Analyses of the macroplant and insect a…
Food Remains from the Gut of the Huldremose Bog Body
The excavation of a Neolithic, Bronze Age and Early Historic features near Ratho, Edinburgh
Excavations near Ratho in early summer 1993 yielded evidence for Neolithic, Bronze Age and Early Historic activity on the site. Neolithic features consisted of a small number of pits containing fragments of carinated bowls; the Bronze Age funerary remains were more extensive, including a ring-ditch which enclosed two cremations in cordoned urns, and one unurned cremation. There were also additional dispersed cists and pits containing burnt bone, …
The plants and the people from Buiston Crannog, Ayrshire, Scotland
In ANTIQUITY for 1993 Barber & Crone reported their excavations at Buiston, one of the crannogs of southwestern Scotland, whose archaeology was in a remarkable good state despite the draining of its watery site. This further account, in reporting on botanical materials from the site, is able to develop a better knowledge of the plants around the crannog, and of their human uses
Mesolithic plant exploitation at the Roc del Migdia, Catalonia
An Analysis of the Gut Contents of Five Well-Preserved Human Bodies from Tarapacá, Northern Chile
Evidence of prehistoric diet from northern Chile
The arid climate in the Tulán quebrada, situated on the eastern shore line of the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile has resulted in the exceptional preservation of a wide range of ancient organic debris. This paper reports on the analysis of a number of human coprolites, and flotation samples from two habitation sites dated to approximately 3000 BP and two samples of human gut contents from well‐preserved bodies from a nearby cemetery. The results…
Establishing a minimum damage procedure for the gut sampling of intact human bodies
The investigation of the Lindow I1 bog body (Stead et al. 1986), made it necessary to consider aspects of previously discovered human remains of a similar kind. Two of us (DL and DB) found that further studies could profitably be undertaken on the specimens in the National Museum of Copenhagen. As a result of this, a number of detailed specialist reports relating to the Huldremose bog body are being prepared for press. An overriding concern in th…
Evidence of prehistoric diet from northern Chile
The arid climate in the Tulán quebrada, situated on the eastern shore line of the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile has resulted in the exceptional preservation of a wide range of ancient organic debris. This paper reports on the analysis of a number of human coprolites, and flotation samples from two habitation sites dated to approximately 3000 BP and two samples of human gut contents from well‐preserved bodies from a nearby cemetery. The results…
Mesolithic plant exploitation at the Roc del Migdia, Catalonia
Excavation of Neolithic enclosures at Cowie Road, Bannockburn, Stirling, 1984-85
Excavations undertaken in 1984 and 1985 on cropmark sites identified as pit and post alignments revealed a bow-ended pit-defined enclosure dated to late-fifth to mid-fourth millennium BC, a post-defined enclosure dated to the mid-fourth to early-third millennium BC, and possible domestic activity. The pits of the enclosure showed up to three phases of use with deposits containing Carinated Bowl-type pottery in the later phases. Medieval or post m…
Black Henbane (Hyoscyamus nigerL.) in the Scottish Neolithic
An Analysis of the Gut Contents of Five Well-Preserved Human Bodies from Tarapacá, Northern Chile
Food for thought
A group of burnt mounds vulnerable to coastal erosion in Shetland was surveyed in Spring 1996. Rescue excavation conducted at one of these sites, Tangwick, uncovered a burnt mound in close association with a specialized, non-domestic structure of Bronze Age date. It is concluded that Tangwick represents a distinct site type, previously little recognized, and it is proposed that such sites may have been used for feasting, possibly on a seasonal ba…
The use of henbane ( Hyoscyamus niger L.) as a hallucinogen at Neolithic ‘ritual’ sites
Were drugs in use in prehistory? Recent claims for the use of hallucinogenic substances have been made, and caused a stir. However, new work on a Scottish Neolithic ceremonial site suggests archaeologists (and the media) may have been jumping to the wrong conclusions
The excavation of a Neolithic, Bronze Age and Early Historic features near Ratho, Edinburgh
Excavations near Ratho in early summer 1993 yielded evidence for Neolithic, Bronze Age and Early Historic activity on the site. Neolithic features consisted of a small number of pits containing fragments of carinated bowls; the Bronze Age funerary remains were more extensive, including a ring-ditch which enclosed two cremations in cordoned urns, and one unurned cremation. There were also additional dispersed cists and pits containing burnt bone, …
The excavation of Cairnwell ring-cairn, Portlethen, Aberdeenshire
The ring-cairn was completely excavated prior to its reconstruction nearby. The site originally comprised an arc of pits, in use by the Neo period (4320±80 BP -- GU-4402) surrounding a stone circle which may have been of similar date. After a long hiatus, a pyre was burnt within the stone circle (3070±60 BP -- GU-4399). A timber enclosure, with an entrance to the south, was then erected within the stone circle and five urned cremations interred i…
Excavation of a cropmark enclosure at Brixwold, (Dalhousie Mains), Bonnyrigg, Midlothian
Excavation recorded a large, sub-rectangular, ditched enclosure, previously identified from aerial photographic evidence as a cropmark. The deep U-shaped ditch contained waterlogged deposits with preserved organic materials. The radiocarbon dates obtained from waterlogged seeds in the ditch indicate two phases of activity, one in the fourth to second centuries BC and one in the first to second centuries AD. Analyses of the macroplant and insect a…
The plants and the people from Buiston Crannog, Ayrshire, Scotland
In ANTIQUITY for 1993 Barber & Crone reported their excavations at Buiston, one of the crannogs of southwestern Scotland, whose archaeology was in a remarkable good state despite the draining of its watery site. This further account, in reporting on botanical materials from the site, is able to develop a better knowledge of the plants around the crannog, and of their human uses
Establishing a minimum damage procedure for the gut sampling of intact human bodies
The investigation of the Lindow I1 bog body (Stead et al. 1986), made it necessary to consider aspects of previously discovered human remains of a similar kind. Two of us (DL and DB) found that further studies could profitably be undertaken on the specimens in the National Museum of Copenhagen. As a result of this, a number of detailed specialist reports relating to the Huldremose bog body are being prepared for press. An overriding concern in th…
Establishing a minimum damage procedure for the gut sampling of intact human bodies
The investigation of the Lindow I1 bog body (Stead et al. 1986), made it necessary to consider aspects of previously discovered human remains of a similar kind. Two of us (DL and DB) found that further studies could profitably be undertaken on the specimens in the National Museum of Copenhagen. As a result of this, a number of detailed specialist reports relating to the Huldremose bog body are being prepared for press. An overriding concern in th…
Evidence of prehistoric diet from northern Chile
The arid climate in the Tulán quebrada, situated on the eastern shore line of the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile has resulted in the exceptional preservation of a wide range of ancient organic debris. This paper reports on the analysis of a number of human coprolites, and flotation samples from two habitation sites dated to approximately 3000 BP and two samples of human gut contents from well‐preserved bodies from a nearby cemetery. The results…
An Analysis of the Gut Contents of Five Well-Preserved Human Bodies from Tarapacá, Northern Chile
Mesolithic plant exploitation at the Roc del Migdia, Catalonia
The excavation of a Neolithic, Bronze Age and Early Historic features near Ratho, Edinburgh
Excavations near Ratho in early summer 1993 yielded evidence for Neolithic, Bronze Age and Early Historic activity on the site. Neolithic features consisted of a small number of pits containing fragments of carinated bowls; the Bronze Age funerary remains were more extensive, including a ring-ditch which enclosed two cremations in cordoned urns, and one unurned cremation. There were also additional dispersed cists and pits containing burnt bone, …
The plants and the people from Buiston Crannog, Ayrshire, Scotland
In ANTIQUITY for 1993 Barber & Crone reported their excavations at Buiston, one of the crannogs of southwestern Scotland, whose archaeology was in a remarkable good state despite the draining of its watery site. This further account, in reporting on botanical materials from the site, is able to develop a better knowledge of the plants around the crannog, and of their human uses
Food Remains from the Gut of the Huldremose Bog Body
Excavation of a medieval grain-drying kiln and earlier mill-lade at Llanbryde, Moray
The remains of a series of ditches at Lhanbryde are interpreted as the remains of a mill-lade system.The northern end of the lade subsequently contained the remains of a possible grain-drying kiln from which burnt oats and a sherd of pottery indicate an llth-to 13th-century date
Excavation of Neolithic enclosures at Cowie Road, Bannockburn, Stirling, 1984-85
Excavations undertaken in 1984 and 1985 on cropmark sites identified as pit and post alignments revealed a bow-ended pit-defined enclosure dated to late-fifth to mid-fourth millennium BC, a post-defined enclosure dated to the mid-fourth to early-third millennium BC, and possible domestic activity. The pits of the enclosure showed up to three phases of use with deposits containing Carinated Bowl-type pottery in the later phases. Medieval or post m…
The excavation of Cairnwell ring-cairn, Portlethen, Aberdeenshire
The ring-cairn was completely excavated prior to its reconstruction nearby. The site originally comprised an arc of pits, in use by the Neo period (4320±80 BP -- GU-4402) surrounding a stone circle which may have been of similar date. After a long hiatus, a pyre was burnt within the stone circle (3070±60 BP -- GU-4399). A timber enclosure, with an entrance to the south, was then erected within the stone circle and five urned cremations interred i…
Excavation of a cropmark enclosure at Brixwold, (Dalhousie Mains), Bonnyrigg, Midlothian
Excavation recorded a large, sub-rectangular, ditched enclosure, previously identified from aerial photographic evidence as a cropmark. The deep U-shaped ditch contained waterlogged deposits with preserved organic materials. The radiocarbon dates obtained from waterlogged seeds in the ditch indicate two phases of activity, one in the fourth to second centuries BC and one in the first to second centuries AD. Analyses of the macroplant and insect a…
Black Henbane (Hyoscyamus nigerL.) in the Scottish Neolithic
Food for thought
A group of burnt mounds vulnerable to coastal erosion in Shetland was surveyed in Spring 1996. Rescue excavation conducted at one of these sites, Tangwick, uncovered a burnt mound in close association with a specialized, non-domestic structure of Bronze Age date. It is concluded that Tangwick represents a distinct site type, previously little recognized, and it is proposed that such sites may have been used for feasting, possibly on a seasonal ba…
The use of henbane ( Hyoscyamus niger L.) as a hallucinogen at Neolithic ‘ritual’ sites
Were drugs in use in prehistory? Recent claims for the use of hallucinogenic substances have been made, and caused a stir. However, new work on a Scottish Neolithic ceremonial site suggests archaeologists (and the media) may have been jumping to the wrong conclusions
No. 39 Arnol
The detailed recording of No. 39 Arnol was instigated by Historic Scotland prior to its consolidation as part of an extended visitor centre based around the nearby Blockhouse Museum at No. 42. Although occupied as a dwelling for a relatively short time, probably between the 1880s card 1920s, the building was modified many times. The original structure seems to have been constructed to a typical blackhouse pattern with an adjoining barn, byre/dwel…
A possible Neolithic settlement at Kinbeachie, Black Isle, Highland
Account of the discovery and excavation of a site comprising a scatter of pits or post-holes, including a rectangular arrangement of post-holes interpreted as a timber building. Pottery, worked stone and carbonized crop plants were recovered and the site is interpreted as a relatively short-lived agricultural settlement. Radiocarbon dating suggests an occupation date of between 3,500 and 2,920 cal BC. The report discusses the wider issues of the …
New evidence for the origins and evolution of Dunbar
Report of an excavation in 1998 on the site previously occupied by the former lock house of a military barracks. A sequence of deposits was identified reflecting around 2,000 years of human influence. The earliest feature identified was a large ditch which may have formed part of the defences/enclosure system of the promontory fort previously identified at Castle Park. A rectangular building, probably contemporary with the Anglian occupation of t…
Three cists and a possible Roman road at Barbush Quarry, Dunblane, Perthshire
A concentration of archaeological features identified and excavated at the quarry included three short cists, one containing a cannel coal and jet disc-bead necklace and another a poorly-preserved skeleton and a Food Vessel. Finds appeared to be from the Early Bronze Age but a radiocarbon date from the skeletal material gave a later date of c. 2845 BP. Other finds included two parallel ditches associated with an area of packed gravel and cobbles …
Brotchie's Steading, Dunnet, Caithness
Brotchie’s steading is a ruined croft house that is of particular interest because several large fragmentsof worked whale mandible were recently recovered from one of the rooms. These were identified ashaving supported the roof of the building as a pair of cruck blades (a Highland couple). The excavation programme was initially designed to further examine the role of whale bonesas a construction material within the context of the Caithness croft …
Kisimul, Isle of Barra. Part 1
Kisimul Castle was taken into the guardianship of Historic Scotland in 2000 and in order to inform any future works for its upkeep a programme of archaeological evaluation, building recording and historical research was undertaken in 2001. Following on from this, a detailed programme of post-excavation analysis and research was conducted in 2011–12. The archaeological works revealed frustratingly little about the construction of the castle but di…
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