Ralston, Ian

Schoop, Ulf-Dietrich

Toolis, Ronan Patrick

2019-03-12T10:51:13Z

2019-03-12T10:51:13Z

2019-07-02

This critical review concerns a sequence of two archaeological excavations and a regional synthesis undertaken between 2003 and 2012 and subsequently published between 2007 and 2016. The various projects were focussed upon Galloway and were primarily concerned with settlement patterns between 400 BC and AD 650. The published work proposed for consideration comprises a monograph and three articles (Appendices B-E). Initial examination of the background to previous research into the later prehistoric and early medieval settlement record of Galloway, provided in Chapters 2 and 3, outlines the basis for the author’s research. The archaeological evidence recovered from the writer’s excavation of Carghidown Promontory Fort and Trusty’s Hill Fort is discussed in Chapters 4 and 5 respectively, revealing aspects of the later prehistoric and early medieval settlement pattern in Galloway within a local, regional and national context. This is followed, in Chapter 6, by an exploration of the classification, morphology and chronology of the later prehistoric and early medieval settlement record in Galloway, building on the results of the author’s previous work and examining the ephemeral basis for many site classifications and the distinctions made between sites in Galloway and other regions of southern Scotland. The concluding chapter (7) examines through regional, national, international and chronological perspectives how the archaeology of later prehistoric and early medieval Galloway is embedded within core underlying patterns of settlement and culture in Scotland between 400 BC and AD 650. This final chapter also draws out contrasts during this period between settlement and culture in Scotland and that of neighbouring countries.

http://hdl.handle.net/1842/35546

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The University of Edinburgh

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Toolis, R 2003 ‘A Survey of the Promontory Forts of the North Solway Coast’, Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 77, 37-78.

Toolis, R 2007 'Intermittent occupation and forced abandonment: excavation of an Iron Age promontory fort at Carghidown, Dumfries and Galloway', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 137, 265-318.

Toolis, R and Bowles, C 2013 'Excavations at Trusty's Hill, 2012', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 87, 27-50.

Toolis, R 2015 ‘Iron Age Settlement Patterns in Galloway’, Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 89, 17-34.

Toolis, R and Bowles, C 2016 The Lost Dark Age Kingdom of Rheged: the Discovery of a Royal Stronghold at Trusty’s Hill, Galloway. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

settlement patterns

Galloway

Pictish carvings

Iron Age settlement

early medieval settlement patterns

Later Prehistoric and Early Medieval (400 BC - AD 650) settlement record of Galloway

A contribution to the Later Prehistoric and Early Medieval (400 BC - AD 650) settlement record of Galloway_2025

Thesis or Dissertation

Doctoral

PhD(P) Doctor of Philosophy by Research Publications