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Inhabiting Broxmouth: Biographies of a Scottish Iron Age settlementBüster, Lindsey S. January 2012 (has links)
Roundhouses are ubiquitous in prehistoric Britain, yet previous studies of these iconic features have tended to overlook their human occupants, focusing instead on their external morphology and structural engineering. Those studies which have attempted to move beyond functionalist frameworks, have often applied overarching and broad-scale cosmological models which, though
re-orientating study towards social considerations, have likewise failed to shed light on the interaction between roundhouse and their inhabitants, particularly at a household level.
This research reanalyses the Late Iron Age settlement at Broxmouth, East Lothian, using new theoretical approaches and advances in AMS dating to ask new questions of a 30 year old data-set. Biographical and materiality approaches, which draw heavily on relational analogy with the ethnographic record, have allowed for detailed reconstruction of the life-history of each structure, and important moments within these histories. Roundhouse replacement appears to have taken place on a roughly generational basis, as a means by which households renegotiated their social identities within the community. Structured deposition, and the materiality of the roundhouse fabric itself, appears to have played an important role in the communication of identity, where the retention of previous structural fabric, the deposition of curated items, and the referencing of former internal features, created physical and symbolic links with the past, and with the ancestors. As such, this study demonstrates that roundhouses were far more than mere dwellings, and were integral to the ways in which past societies rationalised the world around them. / AHRC funding the affiliated Collaborative Doctoral Awards / The full text was made available at the end of the extended embargo, 31st March 2020.
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The impact of the Great War on a local community : the case of East Lothian.Cranstoun, James G. M. January 1992 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Open University. BLDSC no. DX175272.
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Stable isotope evidence for British Iron Age diet. Inter- and intra-site variation in carbon and nitrogen from bone collagen at Wetwang in East Yorkshire and sites in East Lothian, Hampshire and Cornwall.Jay, Mandy January 2005 (has links)
This thesis reports an investigation of Iron Age diet in Britain using carbon and
nitrogen stable isotope data obtained from skeletal material from four locations
across England and southern Scotland. Both human and animal bone Collagen
has been analysed from Wetwang in East Yorkshire and other sites in East
Lothian, Hampshire and Cornwall. Animal bone from Dorset has also been
included.
The aims of the study were to characterize British Iron Age diet in general
isotopic terms and also to provide a contextual base for future analysis which
allows an understanding of both inter- and intra-site variation in such data for
this and other periods. The comparisons across the locations allowed
consideration of geographical variability within England and southern Scotland
and included material from coastal sites (Cornwall and East Lothian), from sites
with easy access to rivers and estuaries (Hampshire) and an inland site where
access to water would have been more difficult (Wetwang).
All human groups were consuming high levels of animal protein and there was
very little evidence for the consumption of aquatic resources. There was
significant variation in 815N values between the locations, which was reflected
both in the humans and the herbivores, such that it is likely to be related to
environmental rather than to dietary differences. Intra-site group comparisons
at Wetwang showed very little variation within the cemetery population
IM according to age, sex, subjective status category or site phase. The data were
very consistent within the populations, although those for Hampshire displayed
more variation in nitrogen.
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