The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3

Christopher D. Morris is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, having previously been Reader in Viking Archaeology at the University of Durham. His lifelong research interests have been in the Early Medieval period, especially post-Roman, Anglo-Scandinavian, Pictish, Viking and Late Norse. He has carried out archaeological fieldwork in Orkney, Shetland, Caithness, Sutherland, the Isle of Man, northern England and Cornwall, and his many publications include four major site monographs together with two edited volumes on the Viking Age and Late Norse settlements across the North Atlantic region. Rachel Barrowman is a research associate at the University of Glasgow. She worked with colleagues on the Viking and Early Settlement Archaeological Research Project in the 1990s, when she was involved in excavations at Tintagel in Cornwall. She has since published work on the chapel and burial ground on St Ninians Isle, Shetland, the late medieval clan stronghold of Dn istean, and the chapel-sites of Lewis. She lives and works with her husband and family in Ness at the north end of Lewis.

List of illustrations List of tables Preface Acknowledgements Part I. Background and context for investigations 19462014 1. Background by Christopher D Morris 2. The Birsay Bay Project and the Brough of Birsay by Christopher D Morris Part II. Area I: The church and churchyard 3. Historical background to the 1950s1960s investigations at the church, associated buildings and churchyard on the Brough of Birsay by C A Ralegh Radford 4. Investigations by Ralegh Radford and Stewart Cruden on the church compiled by Christopher D Morris 5. Investigations by Ralegh Radford and Stewart Cruden on the buildings north of the church compiled by Christopher D Morris 6. An architectural analysis of the church and related buildings on the Brough of Birsay by Richard Fawcett 7. The graves, churchyard enclosures and notable stone monuments compiled by Christopher D Morris 8. Reassessment of the Celtic Enclosure in 1981 by Christopher D Morris Part III. Area II: The buildings east of the churchyard 9. Investigations by Radford and Cruden on the area to the east of the churchyard (The Viking House) and excavations in Room 5 of the Small buildings in 1973/4 10. Explorations in 1993 on the cliff-side to the south-east of the churchyard by Christopher D Morris Part IV. Area III: The buildings west of the churchyard 11. Investigations by Radford and Cruden on the buildings to the south-west of the churchyard by Christopher D Morris 12. Area excavations 197480 in and around Structure N by Christopher D Morris 13. Area excavations in 19745 in and around Structure L and trial excavations in 1977 on features around Structure M by Christopher D Morris 14. Area excavations in 197680 in and around Structure E to the west of the churchyardby Christopher D Morris 15. Area excavations in 197781 in and around Structures S and B to the west and north-west of the churchyard and re-assessment of the dating of Structures F, P and R to the north 16. Specialist studies relating to Area III Part V. The south-western cliff-side area 17. Survey and trial investigations 1979 and re-assessment of the dating of Sites VIII and IXby Christopher D Morris 18. Investigations on the Peerie Brough 197981 by Christopher D Morris Part VI. Economy, landscape and analysis 19. The artefactual assemblage by Colleen E Batey 20. The biological assemblage by Christopher D Morris based on work by D James Rackham with others 21. Geophysical prospection 2007 on the Brough of Birsay by Susan Ovenden and David W Griffiths 22. Overall re-assessment of radiocarbon dates from Birsay by Zoe Outram 23. Birsay Bay landscape geophysical surveys, 20036 by David W Griffiths with Susan Ovenden Part VII. Drawing the threads together 24. The Brough of Birsay and Birsay Bay in retrospect by Christopher D Morris 25. An overview and final assessment by Christopher D Morris Appendices Bibliography Index