Monday 12 December 2016
Iron Age settlements in north-west Skye
Based on the locations of the various brochs and duns, I've been trying to work out what the area of an average Iron Age community might be. The dots on the map have an area of just over 3 sq km. Do you think these might genuinely be separate communities or should we be amalgamating them to form fewer, larger communities? Or should we be thinking in terms of individual farmsteads, rather than nucleated communities?
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Just found this interesting snippet in a report by Archaeology Orkney: "the origin of the township territories and organisation may lie in prehistory - possibly at the beginning of the Middle Iron Age."
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