High Pasture Cave : Ritual, Memory, and Identity in the Iron Age of Skye
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
178570950X
ISBN-13
9781785709500
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Imprint
Oxbow Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 15th, 2025
Print length
656 Pages
Weight
2,662 grams
Dimensions
21.80 x 31.00 x 4.40 cms
Product Classification:
Prehistoric archaeology
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Details excavations at High Pasture Cave Complex, Skye, Scotland, challenging our current understanding of Iron Age cave use and function.
High Pasture Cave served as a significant site for ritual activities and communal events from the Neolithic thought the Scottish Iron Age.
High Pasture Cave, located on the island of Skye, Scotland, occupies a liminal location on the very edge of a settlement, and appears to have been a focus for specific and special activities. Its extended period of use is indicated by ephemeral signs of Neolithic Activity, limited Bronze Age usage, and vast artefactual and environmental assemblages recovered dating to the Early to Middle Scottish Iron Age, c. 800 BC to AD 150.
High Pasture Cave details the research-led excavations at the cave and its context in the landscape, including geology and stratigraphy, the use and transformation of the cave from the Neolithic, post-Medieval activity after the sites closure, chronology and radiocarbon dating, the human remains, and stable isotope analysis.
The examination of the site indicates that the High Pasture Cave Complex was a special place, a focus for significant communal events, for undertaking ritual and special activities, and a place for deposition of significant objects a place whose significance remained embedded in social memory long after active use ceased. These findings challenge our current understanding with regards to cave use and function, and with relation to the wider understanding of Iron Age cultural and religious beliefs.
High Pasture Cave, located on the island of Skye, Scotland, occupies a liminal location on the very edge of a settlement, and appears to have been a focus for specific and special activities. Its extended period of use is indicated by ephemeral signs of Neolithic Activity, limited Bronze Age usage, and vast artefactual and environmental assemblages recovered dating to the Early to Middle Scottish Iron Age, c. 800 BC to AD 150.
High Pasture Cave details the research-led excavations at the cave and its context in the landscape, including geology and stratigraphy, the use and transformation of the cave from the Neolithic, post-Medieval activity after the sites closure, chronology and radiocarbon dating, the human remains, and stable isotope analysis.
The examination of the site indicates that the High Pasture Cave Complex was a special place, a focus for significant communal events, for undertaking ritual and special activities, and a place for deposition of significant objects a place whose significance remained embedded in social memory long after active use ceased. These findings challenge our current understanding with regards to cave use and function, and with relation to the wider understanding of Iron Age cultural and religious beliefs.
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