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The ‘Obanian Iron Age’: human remains from the Oban cave sites, Argyll, Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alan Saville  and
Ywonne Hallén
Alan Saville
Affiliation:
Artefact Research Unit, Archaeology Department, National Museums of Scotland, Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JD, Scotland
Ywonne Hallén
Affiliation:
Artefact Research Unit, Archaeology Department, National Museums of Scotland, Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JD, Scotland
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While the caves round Oban, on the west coast of Scotland, are famous for their Mesolithic artefacts, they have also produced Bronze Age finds and numerous burials. Radiocarbon dates on human bones from one cave show these to be Iron Age, suggesting the Obanian assemblages are composites accumulated over millennia.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 261 , December 1994 , pp. 715 - 723
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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