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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Links of Noltland is in Westray, Orkney Neolithic Farmsteads.
3300BC to 800BC. Links of Noltland [Map] is a farming settlement. Neolithic remains include a dozen buildings and the 'Westray Wifie' figurine. Grobust Bay is also home to Orkney's largest Bronze Age settlement.
Carbon Date. 2800BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as Microtus arvalis, vole, LN81, FQ 83, from calcareous matrix at Links of Noltland [Map], Isle of Westray, Orkney isles, off Scotland. Subm J C Clutton-Brock & M J Armour-Chelu. Comment (subm): date is too early for this level; however, similar date from Knap of Howar (Papa Westray) shows that Neolithic people were present on the islands by this point, and this early date probably indicates some earlier activity recorded into a later level on site. As with OxA-1080, small animal remains possibly not very suitable for close sequence dating.
ID: 6692, C14 ID: OxA-1081 Date BP: 4800 +/- 1280, Start Date BP:, End BP:
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 428, OS North: 493
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke et al
Reference Name: Archaeometry, 29, 1987, 301; Curr Archaeol, 6, 1978, 44-6
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
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Carbon Date. 2215BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, animal, id as Bos, from secondary plough soil immediately preceding main midden deposition in W midden area at Links of Noltland [Map], Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll D V Clarke.
ID: 3122, C14 ID: GU-1429 Date BP: 4215 +/- 65, Start Date BP: 4150, End BP: 4280
Abstract: Grooved Ware site
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke
Reference Name: Discovery Excav Scotland', 1982, 25; Renfrew C, 'The Prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 265; Brit Archaeol Rep, 117, 1983
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
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Carbon Date. 2140BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, animal, id as Bos, from secondary plough soil immediately preceding main midden deposition in W midden area at Links of Noltland [Map], Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll D V Clarke.
ID: 3123, C14 ID: GU-1428 Date BP: 4140 +/- 65, Start Date BP: 4075, End BP: 4205
Abstract: Grooved Ware site
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke
Reference Name: Discovery Excav Scotland', 1982, 25; Renfrew C, 'The Prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 265; Brit Archaeol Rep, 117, 1983
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
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Carbon Date. 1970BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as Lutra lutra, otter, LN81, HO 85, from within Neolithic house levels at Links of Noltland [Map], Isle of Westray, Orkney isles, off Scotland. Subm J C Clutton-Brock & M J Armour-Chelu. Comment (subm): date falls into middle of range for conventional radiocarbon dates obtained from this part of the site.
ID: 6693, C14 ID: OxA-1082 Date BP: 3970 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 3890, End BP: 4050
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 428, OS North: 493
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke et al
Reference Name: Archaeometry, 29, 1987, 301; Curr Archaeol, 6, 1978, 44-6
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
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Carbon Date. 1950BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, animal, id as Bos, from midden around articulated deer skeletons in W Midden at Links of Noltland [Map], Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll D V Clarke.
ID: 3124, C14 ID: GU-1431 Date BP: 3950 +/- 65, Start Date BP: 3885, End BP: 4015
Abstract: Grooved Ware site
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke
Reference Name: Discovery Excav Scotland', 1982, 25; Renfrew C, 'The Prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 265; Brit Archaeol Rep, 117, 1983
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
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Carbon Date. 1860BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, animal, id as Bos, from upper layer of midden deposition in W Midden area at Links of Noltland [Map], Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll D V Clarke.
ID: 3125, C14 ID: GU-1430 Date BP: 3860 +/- 60, Start Date BP: 3800, End BP: 3920
Abstract: Grooved Ware site
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke
Reference Name: Discovery Excav Scotland', 1982, 25; Renfrew C, 'The Prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 265; Brit Archaeol Rep, 117, 1983
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
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Carbon Date. 1840BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, animal, id as Bos, Sus, ovicaprid and Cervus elaphus from midden material used to fill in the structure 'at Grobust' at Links of Noltland [Map], Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll D V Clarke.
ID: 3126, C14 ID: GU-1433 Date BP: 3840 +/- 60, Start Date BP: 3780, End BP: 3900
Abstract: Grooved Ware site
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke
Reference Name: Discovery Excav Scotland', 1982, 25; Renfrew C, 'The Prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 265; Brit Archaeol Rep, 117, 1983
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
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Carbon Date. 1722BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, animal, id as Cervus elaphus from deer butchering site in windblown sand abutting well-preserved wall sealed by midden with Beaker pottery at Links of Noltland [Map], Westray, Orkney. Coll D V Clarke.
ID: 3127, C14 ID: GU-1432 Date BP: 3722 +/- 60, Start Date BP: 3662, End BP: 3782
Abstract: Grooved Ware site
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke
Reference Name: Discovery Excav Scotland', 1982, 25; Renfrew C, 'The Prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 265; Brit Archaeol Rep, 117, 1983
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
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Carbon Date. 1590BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as Microtus arvalis, vole, LN80, FG 005, from calcareous matrix at Links of Noltland [Map], Isle of Westray, Orkney isles, off Scotland. Subm J C Clutton-Brock & M J Armour-Chelu. Comment (subm): date is about 200 years too late for this level; either ploughing had disturbed deposit or animal had burrowed. Date has confirmed Neolithic dating for voles. Small animal remains possibly not very suitable for close sequence dating.
ID: 6691, C14 ID: OxA-1080 Date BP: 3590 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 3510, End BP: 3670
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 428, OS North: 493
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke et al
Reference Name: Archaeometry, 29, 1987, 301; Curr Archaeol, 6, 1978, 44-6
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
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