High Pasture Cave
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 sp...
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| description | 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. Footsteps in the Dark 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1573572025-07-31T07:29:58Z High Pasture Cave Birch, Steven McKenzie, Jo History Europe Great Britain bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history 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. Footsteps in the Dark 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. 2025-03-14T05:44:45Z 2025-03-14T05:44:45Z 2025-03-12T05:31:02Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/99342 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/157357 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/99342/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/99342/1/external_content.pdf Oxbow Books Oxbow Books 53fda2f2-3fe6-4765-8758-df63da48bd65 Knowledge Unlatched Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Open Services Oxbow Books open access |
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