Project Details
Description
This project is run by Dr david Griffiths and Dr Jane Harrison, University fo Oxford, and concerns a programme of investigation in the west mainland area of Orkney. In particular, it involves landscape and settlement research at the Bay of Skaill, where excavations at the Castle of Snusgar and East Mound have uncovered extensive cultural remains. My role in the project is the recording and analysis of Viking-Age comb material, with a view to its implications for chronology, culture contact, and the inference of status.
Layman's description
At the Bay of Skaill, on Orkney’s West Mainland, a massive Norse longhouse lay lost to memory, beneath a deep blanket of windblown sand – until it was re-discovered and excavated by Oxford University archaeologists.
| Status | Finished |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 7/03/04 → 18/03/13 |