Excavations on Iron Age and Medieval Earthworks At the Dod, Borders Region, 1979–81

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ID11613732
AutoresIan M Smith (0000-0003-4340-5385), Jeremy Taylor (0000-0002-0448-0254)
Ano2000
Volume157
Fascículo1
Páginas229-353
Data de publicação2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoArchaeological Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00665983.2000.11078959
OpenAlexW2316638665
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas8

Over three seasons between 1979 and 1981 the author undertook, on behalf of the then Historic Buildings and Monuments Directorate (Scottish Development Department), the rescue excavation of a 2.4 ha native settlement in advance of land reclamation for upland arable farming. Though limited in extent, the excavations identified a complex sequence of four major phases of occupation. Dating evidence was scarce but occupation appears to have begun as an unenclosed settlement during the Iron Age that was subsequently enclosed within earthen ramparts. Occupation inside the earthworks continued at least until the second century A.D. and a succession of later phases of building indicates that the site may have been settled continually or intermittently until the seventeenth century

Agriculture · Arable land · Archaeology · Cartography · Earthworks · Ecological succession · Excavation · Geography · Iron Age · Land reclamation · Settlement (finance · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology