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    Inhabiting Broxmouth: Biographies of a Scottish Iron Age settlement

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    Publication date
    2012
    Author
    Büster, Lindsey S.
    Supervisor
    Armit, Ian
    McKenzie, Jo
    Fojut, N.
    Keyword
    Iron Age; Roundhouse; Settlement; Hillfort; Biography; Broxmouth, East Lothian, Scotland
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    The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.
    Institution
    University of Bradford
    Department
    Department of Archaeological Sciences
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    2012
    
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    Abstract
    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.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/14101
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    Thesis
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    PhD
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    The full text was made available at the end of the extended embargo, 31st March 2020.
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