Containment, closure and red deer: a Late Neolithic butchery site at Skaill Bay, Mainland, Orkney

Richards, Colin, Clarke, Anne, Ingrem, Claire, Mulville, Jacqueline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9392-3693 and Mainland, Ingrid 2015. Containment, closure and red deer: a Late Neolithic butchery site at Skaill Bay, Mainland, Orkney. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 145 , pp. 91-124. 10.5284/1000184

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Abstract

Erosion of sand dunes in the Bay of Skaill, close to the Neolithic site at Skara Brae, exposed a spread of faunal remains and stone tools representing a Late Neolithic butchery site separated by a wall from a deposit of articulated red deer bone. This is an unusual and significant bone assemblage comprising both fragmented and articulated remains of red deer together with some domesticates. Also a whale mandible was closely associated with the butchery area. An interpretation of the site incorporates a reappraisal of the role of red deer and cattle elsewhere in Late Neolithic Orkney

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology
Publisher:	Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
ISSN:	0081-1564
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	16 August 2017
Last Modified:	02 May 2023 13:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/103637

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