Clachtoll : : An Iron Age Broch Settlement in Assynt, North-West Scotland / / edited by Graeme Cavers.

• TeilnehmendeR: Cavers, M. Graeme,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Oxbow Books,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)

Results of a major, community-based excavation of an Iron Age broch that collapsed in on itself after a fire, sealing a unique and undisturbed domestic assemblage.

Table of Contents

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction and background, conservation context
• 2. The structure and the archaeological excavations / Nicholas Johnstone
• 3. Radiocarbon dating / Graeme Cavers
• 4. The artefacts
• 4.1. The pottery / Dawn McLaren
• 4.2. Heat-affected clay and associated materials / Dawn McLaren
• 4.3. Organic residue analysis of the ceramics and steatite vessels / Richard P. Evershed
• 4.4. The iron objects from Clachtoll / Andy Heald
• 4.5. Copper alloy / Andy Heald
• 4.6. Ironworking and other residues / Andy Heald
• 4.7. The coarse stone, pumice and steatite / Fiona McGibbon
• 4.8. The talc-rich schist objects / Richard Jones
• 4.9. The worked bone / Jackaline Robertson
• 4.10. The organic materials / Dawn McLaren
• 4.11. The waterlogged wood / Anne Crone
• 4.12. The artefact distribution / Graeme Cavers
• 5. Environmental evidence
• 5.1. The macroplants / Jackaline Robertson
• 5.2. The charcoal / Jackaline Robertson
• 5.3. Waterlogged macroplant remains / Jackaline Robertson
• 5.4. Animal bone / Jackaline Robertson
• 5.5. Fish bone / Jen Harland
• 5.6. Shellfish / Jackaline Robertson
• 5.7. Insects from Cell 1 / Enid Allison
• 6. The floors and internal deposits: soil micromorphology / Lynne Roy
• 7. The burning layer: spatial analysis of the macroplant assemblage / Graeme Cavers
• 8. The environmental context of Clachtoll and Assynt / Louisa Matthews
• 9. The Iron Age landscape of Stoer / Alex Wood
• 10. Interpretation, discussion and conclusion / John Barber.