Yr Athro Niall Sharples
Professor in Archaeology
Trosolwyg
Research interests
- Monumentality
- Material Culture
- British Prehistory
- The Norse settlement of the North Atlantic
- The history of Archaeology in the 20th Century
Cyhoeddiad
2024
- Sandoval-Castellanos, E. et al. 2024. Ancient mitogenomes from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Central Anatolia and the effects of a Late Neolithic bottleneck in sheep (Ovis aries). Science Advances 10(15), article number: eadj0954. (10.1126/sciadv.adj0954)
2023
- Davis, O. et al. 2023. Trelai Park, Cardiff: An interim report on the 2022 excavations. Cardiff: Department of Archaeology & Conservation, School of History Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University.
- Sharples, N. 2023. The use of space in Norse houses: some observations from the Hebrides.. In: Horne, T., Pierce, E. and Barrowman, R. eds. The Viking Age in Scotland. Studies in Scottish Scandinavian Archaeology.. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 75-84.
2021
- Sharples, N. 2021. The reuse of monuments in Atlantic Scotland; variation between practices in the Hebrides and Orkney. In: Stoddart, S., Aines, E. D. and Malone, C. eds. Gardening Time. Monuments and landscape from Sardinia, Scotland and Central Europe in the very long Iron Age. Cambridge, UK: MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, pp. 141-150.
2020
- Greaney, S. et al. 2020. Tempo of a mega-henge: a new chronology for Mount Pleasant, Dorchester, Dorset. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 86, pp. 199-236. (10.1017/ppr.2020.6)
- Sharples, N. 2020. Katharina Rebay-Salisbury. The human body in early Iron Age Europe: burial practices and images of the Hallstatt world [Book Review]. European Journal of Archaeology 23(4), pp. 613-616. (10.1017/eaa.2020.44)
- Sharples, N. ed. 2020. The economy of a Norse settlement in the Outer Hebrides: excavations at mounds 2 and 2A Bornais, South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Casanova, E., Knowles, T. D., Ford, C., Cramp, L., Sharples, N. and Evershed, R. P. 2020. Compound-specific radiocarbon, stable carbon isotope and biomarker analysis of mixed marine/terrestrial lipids preserved in archaeological pottery vessels. Presented at: 9th Radiocarbon & Archaeology Symposium, Athens, GA, United States, 20-24 May 2019Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium, Vol. 62. Cambridge University Press pp. 1679-1697., (10.1017/RDC.2020.11)
- Davis, O. and Sharples, N. 2020. Excavations at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff: towards a narrative for the hillforts of southeast Wales. In: Late Prehistoric Fortifications in Europe: Defensive, Symbolic and Territorial Aspects from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age: Proceedings of the International Colloquium 'FortMetalAges', Guimarães, Portugal. Archaeopress, pp. 163-181.
2019
- Sharples, N. ed. 2019. A Norse settlement in the Outer Hebrides: excavations at mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sharples, N. 2019. Monumentalising the domestic: house societies in Atlantic Scotland. In: Curras, B. X. and Sastre, I. eds. Alternative Iron Ages. Social Theory from Archaeological Analysis. Routledge Studies in Archaeology Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 284-306.
- Waddington, K., Bayliss, A., Higham, T., Madgwick, R. and Sharples, N. 2019. Histories of deposition: creating chronology for the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age transition in Southern Britain. Archaeological Journal 176(1), pp. 84-133. (10.1080/00665983.2018.1504859)
2017
- Clarke, D. et al. 2017. The end of the world, or just 'Goodbye to all that'? Contextualising the red deer heap from the Links of Noltland, Westray, within late third millennium cal BC Orkney. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 146, pp. 57-89. (10.9750/PSAS.146.1226)
- Davis, O. and Sharples, N. 2017. Early Neolithic enclosures in Wales: a review of the evidence in light of recent discoveries at Caerau, Cardiff. Antiquaries Journal 97, pp. 1-26. (10.1017/S0003581517000282)
- Sharples, N. 2017. Introduction: westward on the high-hilled plains. In: Hurst, D. ed. Westward on the high-hilled plains: the later prehistory of the West Midlands.. Oxford: Oxbow Books
2016
- Sharples, N. and Dennis, I. 2016. Combs and comb production in the Western Isles during the Norse period. In: Hunter, F. and Sheridan, A. eds. Ancient Lives. Object, people and place in early Scotland. Essays for David V. Clarke on his 70th birthday.. Leiden, Netherlands: Sidestone Press, pp. 331-357.
- Davis, O. and Sharples, N. 2016. Excavations at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff, South Wales, 2015: an interim report. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff Studies in Archaeology.
- Davis, O., Sharples, N., Wyatt, D., Brook, D. and Young, T. 2016. Geophysical survey and community engagement at Caerau Ringwork, Cardiff. Archaeology in Wales 55, pp. 13-19.
2015
- Sharples, N., Ingrem, C., Marshall, P., Mulville, J., Powell, A. and Reed, K. 2015. The Viking occupation of the Hebrides: evidence from the excavations at Bornais, South Uist. In: Barrett, J. H. and Gibbon, S. J. eds. Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World. Society of Medieval Archaeology Monographs Vol. 37. Leeds: Maney Publishing, pp. 237-258.
- Davis, O., Sharples, N. M. and Wyatt, D. 2015. The CAER Heritage Project: A note on a second season of fieldwork at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff, 2014. Archaeology in Wales 54, pp. 35-42.
- Davis, O., Sharples, N. and Wyatt, D. 2015. Excavations at Caerau hillfort, Cardiff, South Wales, 2014: an interim report. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: School of History Archaeology and Religion Cardiff University,. Available at: https://caerheritageprojectdotcom1.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/caerau-interim-v1-1.pdf
- Sharples, N. 2015. A short history of archaeology in the Uists, Outer Hebrides. Journal of the North Atlantic 9(sp9), pp. 1-15. (10.3721/037.002.sp910)
2014
- Cramp, L. J. E. et al. 2014. Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281(1780), article number: 20132372. (10.1098/rspb.2013.2372)
- Sharples, N. M. 2014. Problems and opportunities: Iron Age burial traditions in southern Britain. In: Cahen-Delhaye, A. and De Mulder, G. eds. Des espaces aux esprits: L'organisation de la mort aux âges des Métaux dans le nord-ouest de l'Europe. Etudes et Documents, Archéologie Vol. 32. Namur: Institute du Patrimoine Wallon (IPW), pp. 141-159.
- Sharples, N. M. 2014. Are the developed hillforts of southern England urban?. In: Fernandez-Gotz, M., Wendling, H. and Winger, K. eds. Paths to Complexity. Centralisation and Urbanisation in Iron Age Europe. Oxbow Books, pp. 224-232.
- Davis, O. and Sharples, N. M. 2014. Excavations at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff, South Wales, 2013: an interim report.. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff University. Available at: https://caerheritageprojectdotcom1.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/caerau-interim-web.pdf
- Davis, O., Sharples, N. M. and Wyatt, D. 2014. The CAER Heritage Project: A preliminary note on recent research and community engagement at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff. Archaeology in Wales 53, pp. 119-125.
2013
- Sharples, N. M. 2013. Longbridge Deverill Cow Down. An Early Iron Age settlement in West Wiltshire. By Sonia Chadwick Hawkes with Christopher Hawkes [Book Review]. [Online]. London, UK: Prehistoric Society. Available at: http://www.prehistoricsociety.org/files/reviews/Longbridge_Deverill_Cow_Review.pdf
2012
- Sharples, N. M. 2012. From Bronze Age enclosure to Anglo-Saxon settlement. Archaeological excavations at Taplow Hillfort, Buckinghamshire 1999-2005 by T Allen, C Hayden and H Lamdin-Whymark and Castle Hill and its landscape archaeological investigations at the Wittenhams, Oxfordshire by T Allen, K Cramp, H Lamdin-Whymark and L Webley [Book Review]. [Online]. London, UK: Prehistoric Society. Available at: http://www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications/reviews/search/
- Sharples, N. M. 2012. Winds of Change. The living landscapes of Hirta, St Kilda by Jill Harden & Olivia Lelong [Book Review]. [Online]. London, UK: Prehistoric Society. Available at: http://www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications/reviews/search/
- Sharples, N. M. ed. 2012. A late iron age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at mound 1, Bornais, South Uist. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sharples, N. M. and Hamilton, M. 2012. Early Bronze Age settlement at Machair Mheadhanaach and Cill Donnain. In: Parker Pearson, M. ed. From machair to mountains: archaeological survey and excavation in South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 199-214.
- Sharples, N. M. 2012. The Beaker-period and Early Bronze Age settlement at Sligeanach, Cill Donnain. In: Parker Pearson, M. ed. From Machair to Mountains: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in South Uist. Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides Vol. 4. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 215-258.
- Sharples, N. M., Cummings, V. and Henley, C. 2012. The chambered cairns of South Uist. In: Parker Pearson, M. ed. From machair to mountains: archaeological survey and excavation in South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 118-133.
2011
- Sharples, N. M. 2011. Aspiring to greatness: the recent excavations at Maiden Castle. In: Schofield, J. ed. Great Excavations: Shaping the Archaeological Profession. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 58-73.
- Sharples, N. M. 2011. Boundaries, status and conflict: an exploration of Iron Age research in the 20th century. In: Moore, T. and Armada, X. eds. Atlantic Europe in the first millennium BC: crossing the divide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 668-682.
- Waddington, K. E. and Sharples, N. . M. 2011. The excavations at Whitchurch 2006-2009: an interim report. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Department of Archaeology, School of History Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cf.ac.uk/share/resources/Whitchurch%20interim%20Web.pdf
2010
- Sharples, N. M. 2010. Social Relations in Later Prehistory: Wessex in the First Millennium BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2009
- Mulville, J., Madgwick, R., Stevens, R., O'Connell, T., Powell, A., Sharples, N. M. and Parker Pearson, M. 2009. Isotopic analysis of faunal material from South Uist, Western Isles, Scotland. Journal of the North Atlantic, pp. 51-59. (10.3721/037.002.0106)
- Allen, M. J., Sharples, N. M. and O'Connor, T. 2009. Land and people: Papers in memory of John G. Evans. Prehistoric Society Research Papers Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sharples, N. M. 2009. Beaker settlement in the Western Isles. In: Allen, M. J., Sharples, N. M. and O'Connor, T. eds. Land and People: Papers in Memory of John G. Evans. Prehistoric Society Research Papers Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 147-158.
- Sharples, N. M. and Smith, R. 2009. Norse settlement in the Western Isles. In: Woolf, A. ed. Scandinavian Scotland - Twenty Years After. St John's House Papers Vol. 12. St Andrews: The Committee for Dark Age Studies, University of St Andrews, pp. 103-130.
2008
- Sharples, N. M. 2008. Comment I. Contextualising Iron Age art. In: Garrow, D., Gosden, C. and Hill, J. D. eds. Rethinking Celtic Art. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 203-213.
- Sharples, N. M. 2008. New perspectives in later prehistory. Presented at: 8th Annual Iron Age Research Student Seminar, Cardiff, UK, 18-19 May 2006 Presented at Davis, O., Sharples, N. M. and Waddington, K. E. eds.Changing Perspectives on the First Millennium BC: Proceedings of the Iron Age Research Student Seminar 2006. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxford: Oxbow pp. 1-10.
- Davis, O., Sharples, N. M. and Waddington, K. eds. 2008. Changing perspectives on the First Millennium BC: proceedings of the Iron Age Research Student Seminar 2006. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow.
2007
- Sharples, N. M. 2007. A find of Ringerike art from Bornais in the Outer Hebrides. In: Hines, J., Lane, A. and Redknap, M. eds. Land, Sea and Home. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs Vol. 20. Leeds: Maney, pp. 255-272.
2006
- Sharples, N. M. 2006. The first (permanent) houses: an interpretation of the monumental domestic architecture of Iron Age Orkney. Journal of Iberian Archaeology 8, pp. 281-305.
2005
- Sharples, N. M. 2005. A Norse farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: excavations at Mound 3, Bornais, South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sharples, N. M. 2005. Building communities and creating identities in the first millennium BC. In: Haselgrove, C. and Pope, R. eds. The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 174-184.
- Sharples, N. M. 2005. Life histories and the buildings of the Atlantic Iron Age. In: Dockrill, S. et al. eds. Tall Stories: 2 Millennia of Brochs. Lerwick: Shetland Amenity Trust, pp. 102-114.
2004
- Parker Pearson, M., Sharples, N. M. and Symonds, J. 2004. South Uist: archaeology and history of a Hebridean island. Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd.
- Sharples, N. M., Parker Pearson, M. and Symonds, J. 2004. The archaeological landscape of South Uist. In: Housley, R. A. and Coles, G. eds. Atlantic Connections and Adaptations: Economies, environments and subsistence in lands bordering the North Atlantic. Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology Vol. 21. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 28-47.
2003
- Sharples, N. M. 2003. From monuments to artefacts: changing social relationships in the later Iron Age. In: Downes, J. and Ritchie, A. eds. Sea Change: Orkney and Northern Europe in the Later Iron Age AD 300-800. Balgavies: Pinkfoot Press, pp. 151-165.
2000
- Sharples, N. M. 2000. Antlers and Orcadian rituals: An ambiguous role for red deer in the Neolithic. In: Ritchie, A. ed. Neolithic Orkney in its European context. McDonald Institute Monographs Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, pp. 107-116.
1999
- Parker Pearson, M. and Sharples, N. M. 1999. Between land and sea: excavations at Dun Vulan, South Uist. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
- Sharples, N. M. 1999. Stuart Piggott (1910-1996). In: Murray, T. ed. Encyclopedia of archaeology: the great archaeologists. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 615-634.
1998
- Sharples, N. M. 1998. Scalloway: A broch, Late Iron Age settlement and Medieval cemetery in Shetland. Oxbow Monographs in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
1997
- Sharples, N. M. and Parker Pearson, M. 1997. Why were brochs built? Recent studies in the iron age of Atlantic Scotland. In: Gwilt, A. and Haselgrove, C. eds. Reconstructing Iron Age Societies: New Approaches to the British Iron Age. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 254-265.
1996
- Sharples, N. M. 1996. Nationalism or internationalism: the problematic Scottish experience. In: Atkinson, J. A., Banks, I. and O'Sullivan, J. eds. Nationalism and Archaeology: Scottish Archaeological Forum. Glasgow: Cruithne Press, pp. 77-88.
1991
- Sharples, N. M. 1991. English Heritage book of Maiden Castle. London: B. T. Batsford/English Heritage.
- Sharples, N. 1991. Maiden Castle. Excavations and field survey 1985-6. Archaeological Report Vol. 19. London: English Heritage.
- Sharples, N. M. 1991. Warfare in the Iron Age of Wessex. Scottish Archaeological Review 8, pp. 79-89.
1990
- Sharples, N. M. 1990. Late iron age society and continental trade in Dorset. Revue Archeologique de l'Ouest(Supp 3), pp. 299-304.
1985
- Sharples, N. 1985. Radiocarbon dates from three chambered tombs at Loch Calder, Caithness. Scottish Archaeological Review 4(1), pp. 2-10.
1981
- Sharples, N. 1981. The excavation of a chambered cairn, the Ord North, at Lairg, Sutherland, by J. X. W. P. Corcoran. Proceedings Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 111, pp. 21-62.
Adrannau llyfrau
- Sharples, N. 2023. The use of space in Norse houses: some observations from the Hebrides.. In: Horne, T., Pierce, E. and Barrowman, R. eds. The Viking Age in Scotland. Studies in Scottish Scandinavian Archaeology.. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 75-84.
- Sharples, N. 2021. The reuse of monuments in Atlantic Scotland; variation between practices in the Hebrides and Orkney. In: Stoddart, S., Aines, E. D. and Malone, C. eds. Gardening Time. Monuments and landscape from Sardinia, Scotland and Central Europe in the very long Iron Age. Cambridge, UK: MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, pp. 141-150.
- Davis, O. and Sharples, N. 2020. Excavations at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff: towards a narrative for the hillforts of southeast Wales. In: Late Prehistoric Fortifications in Europe: Defensive, Symbolic and Territorial Aspects from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age: Proceedings of the International Colloquium 'FortMetalAges', Guimarães, Portugal. Archaeopress, pp. 163-181.
- Sharples, N. 2019. Monumentalising the domestic: house societies in Atlantic Scotland. In: Curras, B. X. and Sastre, I. eds. Alternative Iron Ages. Social Theory from Archaeological Analysis. Routledge Studies in Archaeology Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 284-306.
- Sharples, N. 2017. Introduction: westward on the high-hilled plains. In: Hurst, D. ed. Westward on the high-hilled plains: the later prehistory of the West Midlands.. Oxford: Oxbow Books
- Sharples, N. and Dennis, I. 2016. Combs and comb production in the Western Isles during the Norse period. In: Hunter, F. and Sheridan, A. eds. Ancient Lives. Object, people and place in early Scotland. Essays for David V. Clarke on his 70th birthday.. Leiden, Netherlands: Sidestone Press, pp. 331-357.
- Sharples, N., Ingrem, C., Marshall, P., Mulville, J., Powell, A. and Reed, K. 2015. The Viking occupation of the Hebrides: evidence from the excavations at Bornais, South Uist. In: Barrett, J. H. and Gibbon, S. J. eds. Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World. Society of Medieval Archaeology Monographs Vol. 37. Leeds: Maney Publishing, pp. 237-258.
- Sharples, N. M. 2014. Problems and opportunities: Iron Age burial traditions in southern Britain. In: Cahen-Delhaye, A. and De Mulder, G. eds. Des espaces aux esprits: L'organisation de la mort aux âges des Métaux dans le nord-ouest de l'Europe. Etudes et Documents, Archéologie Vol. 32. Namur: Institute du Patrimoine Wallon (IPW), pp. 141-159.
- Sharples, N. M. 2014. Are the developed hillforts of southern England urban?. In: Fernandez-Gotz, M., Wendling, H. and Winger, K. eds. Paths to Complexity. Centralisation and Urbanisation in Iron Age Europe. Oxbow Books, pp. 224-232.
- Sharples, N. M. and Hamilton, M. 2012. Early Bronze Age settlement at Machair Mheadhanaach and Cill Donnain. In: Parker Pearson, M. ed. From machair to mountains: archaeological survey and excavation in South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 199-214.
- Sharples, N. M. 2012. The Beaker-period and Early Bronze Age settlement at Sligeanach, Cill Donnain. In: Parker Pearson, M. ed. From Machair to Mountains: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in South Uist. Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides Vol. 4. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 215-258.
- Sharples, N. M., Cummings, V. and Henley, C. 2012. The chambered cairns of South Uist. In: Parker Pearson, M. ed. From machair to mountains: archaeological survey and excavation in South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 118-133.
- Sharples, N. M. 2011. Aspiring to greatness: the recent excavations at Maiden Castle. In: Schofield, J. ed. Great Excavations: Shaping the Archaeological Profession. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 58-73.
- Sharples, N. M. 2011. Boundaries, status and conflict: an exploration of Iron Age research in the 20th century. In: Moore, T. and Armada, X. eds. Atlantic Europe in the first millennium BC: crossing the divide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 668-682.
- Sharples, N. M. 2009. Beaker settlement in the Western Isles. In: Allen, M. J., Sharples, N. M. and O'Connor, T. eds. Land and People: Papers in Memory of John G. Evans. Prehistoric Society Research Papers Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 147-158.
- Sharples, N. M. and Smith, R. 2009. Norse settlement in the Western Isles. In: Woolf, A. ed. Scandinavian Scotland - Twenty Years After. St John's House Papers Vol. 12. St Andrews: The Committee for Dark Age Studies, University of St Andrews, pp. 103-130.
- Sharples, N. M. 2008. Comment I. Contextualising Iron Age art. In: Garrow, D., Gosden, C. and Hill, J. D. eds. Rethinking Celtic Art. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 203-213.
- Sharples, N. M. 2007. A find of Ringerike art from Bornais in the Outer Hebrides. In: Hines, J., Lane, A. and Redknap, M. eds. Land, Sea and Home. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs Vol. 20. Leeds: Maney, pp. 255-272.
- Sharples, N. M. 2005. Building communities and creating identities in the first millennium BC. In: Haselgrove, C. and Pope, R. eds. The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 174-184.
- Sharples, N. M. 2005. Life histories and the buildings of the Atlantic Iron Age. In: Dockrill, S. et al. eds. Tall Stories: 2 Millennia of Brochs. Lerwick: Shetland Amenity Trust, pp. 102-114.
- Sharples, N. M., Parker Pearson, M. and Symonds, J. 2004. The archaeological landscape of South Uist. In: Housley, R. A. and Coles, G. eds. Atlantic Connections and Adaptations: Economies, environments and subsistence in lands bordering the North Atlantic. Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology Vol. 21. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 28-47.
- Sharples, N. M. 2003. From monuments to artefacts: changing social relationships in the later Iron Age. In: Downes, J. and Ritchie, A. eds. Sea Change: Orkney and Northern Europe in the Later Iron Age AD 300-800. Balgavies: Pinkfoot Press, pp. 151-165.
- Sharples, N. M. 2000. Antlers and Orcadian rituals: An ambiguous role for red deer in the Neolithic. In: Ritchie, A. ed. Neolithic Orkney in its European context. McDonald Institute Monographs Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, pp. 107-116.
- Sharples, N. M. 1999. Stuart Piggott (1910-1996). In: Murray, T. ed. Encyclopedia of archaeology: the great archaeologists. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 615-634.
- Sharples, N. M. and Parker Pearson, M. 1997. Why were brochs built? Recent studies in the iron age of Atlantic Scotland. In: Gwilt, A. and Haselgrove, C. eds. Reconstructing Iron Age Societies: New Approaches to the British Iron Age. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 254-265.
- Sharples, N. M. 1996. Nationalism or internationalism: the problematic Scottish experience. In: Atkinson, J. A., Banks, I. and O'Sullivan, J. eds. Nationalism and Archaeology: Scottish Archaeological Forum. Glasgow: Cruithne Press, pp. 77-88.
Cynadleddau
- Casanova, E., Knowles, T. D., Ford, C., Cramp, L., Sharples, N. and Evershed, R. P. 2020. Compound-specific radiocarbon, stable carbon isotope and biomarker analysis of mixed marine/terrestrial lipids preserved in archaeological pottery vessels. Presented at: 9th Radiocarbon & Archaeology Symposium, Athens, GA, United States, 20-24 May 2019Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium, Vol. 62. Cambridge University Press pp. 1679-1697., (10.1017/RDC.2020.11)
- Sharples, N. M. 2008. New perspectives in later prehistory. Presented at: 8th Annual Iron Age Research Student Seminar, Cardiff, UK, 18-19 May 2006 Presented at Davis, O., Sharples, N. M. and Waddington, K. E. eds.Changing Perspectives on the First Millennium BC: Proceedings of the Iron Age Research Student Seminar 2006. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxford: Oxbow pp. 1-10.
Erthyglau
- Sandoval-Castellanos, E. et al. 2024. Ancient mitogenomes from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Central Anatolia and the effects of a Late Neolithic bottleneck in sheep (Ovis aries). Science Advances 10(15), article number: eadj0954. (10.1126/sciadv.adj0954)
- Greaney, S. et al. 2020. Tempo of a mega-henge: a new chronology for Mount Pleasant, Dorchester, Dorset. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 86, pp. 199-236. (10.1017/ppr.2020.6)
- Sharples, N. 2020. Katharina Rebay-Salisbury. The human body in early Iron Age Europe: burial practices and images of the Hallstatt world [Book Review]. European Journal of Archaeology 23(4), pp. 613-616. (10.1017/eaa.2020.44)
- Waddington, K., Bayliss, A., Higham, T., Madgwick, R. and Sharples, N. 2019. Histories of deposition: creating chronology for the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age transition in Southern Britain. Archaeological Journal 176(1), pp. 84-133. (10.1080/00665983.2018.1504859)
- Clarke, D. et al. 2017. The end of the world, or just 'Goodbye to all that'? Contextualising the red deer heap from the Links of Noltland, Westray, within late third millennium cal BC Orkney. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 146, pp. 57-89. (10.9750/PSAS.146.1226)
- Davis, O. and Sharples, N. 2017. Early Neolithic enclosures in Wales: a review of the evidence in light of recent discoveries at Caerau, Cardiff. Antiquaries Journal 97, pp. 1-26. (10.1017/S0003581517000282)
- Davis, O., Sharples, N., Wyatt, D., Brook, D. and Young, T. 2016. Geophysical survey and community engagement at Caerau Ringwork, Cardiff. Archaeology in Wales 55, pp. 13-19.
- Davis, O., Sharples, N. M. and Wyatt, D. 2015. The CAER Heritage Project: A note on a second season of fieldwork at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff, 2014. Archaeology in Wales 54, pp. 35-42.
- Sharples, N. 2015. A short history of archaeology in the Uists, Outer Hebrides. Journal of the North Atlantic 9(sp9), pp. 1-15. (10.3721/037.002.sp910)
- Cramp, L. J. E. et al. 2014. Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281(1780), article number: 20132372. (10.1098/rspb.2013.2372)
- Davis, O., Sharples, N. M. and Wyatt, D. 2014. The CAER Heritage Project: A preliminary note on recent research and community engagement at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff. Archaeology in Wales 53, pp. 119-125.
- Mulville, J., Madgwick, R., Stevens, R., O'Connell, T., Powell, A., Sharples, N. M. and Parker Pearson, M. 2009. Isotopic analysis of faunal material from South Uist, Western Isles, Scotland. Journal of the North Atlantic, pp. 51-59. (10.3721/037.002.0106)
- Sharples, N. M. 2006. The first (permanent) houses: an interpretation of the monumental domestic architecture of Iron Age Orkney. Journal of Iberian Archaeology 8, pp. 281-305.
- Sharples, N. M. 1991. Warfare in the Iron Age of Wessex. Scottish Archaeological Review 8, pp. 79-89.
- Sharples, N. M. 1990. Late iron age society and continental trade in Dorset. Revue Archeologique de l'Ouest(Supp 3), pp. 299-304.
- Sharples, N. 1985. Radiocarbon dates from three chambered tombs at Loch Calder, Caithness. Scottish Archaeological Review 4(1), pp. 2-10.
- Sharples, N. 1981. The excavation of a chambered cairn, the Ord North, at Lairg, Sutherland, by J. X. W. P. Corcoran. Proceedings Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 111, pp. 21-62.
Gwefannau
- Sharples, N. M. 2013. Longbridge Deverill Cow Down. An Early Iron Age settlement in West Wiltshire. By Sonia Chadwick Hawkes with Christopher Hawkes [Book Review]. [Online]. London, UK: Prehistoric Society. Available at: http://www.prehistoricsociety.org/files/reviews/Longbridge_Deverill_Cow_Review.pdf
- Sharples, N. M. 2012. From Bronze Age enclosure to Anglo-Saxon settlement. Archaeological excavations at Taplow Hillfort, Buckinghamshire 1999-2005 by T Allen, C Hayden and H Lamdin-Whymark and Castle Hill and its landscape archaeological investigations at the Wittenhams, Oxfordshire by T Allen, K Cramp, H Lamdin-Whymark and L Webley [Book Review]. [Online]. London, UK: Prehistoric Society. Available at: http://www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications/reviews/search/
- Sharples, N. M. 2012. Winds of Change. The living landscapes of Hirta, St Kilda by Jill Harden & Olivia Lelong [Book Review]. [Online]. London, UK: Prehistoric Society. Available at: http://www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications/reviews/search/
Llyfrau
- Sharples, N. ed. 2020. The economy of a Norse settlement in the Outer Hebrides: excavations at mounds 2 and 2A Bornais, South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sharples, N. ed. 2019. A Norse settlement in the Outer Hebrides: excavations at mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sharples, N. M. ed. 2012. A late iron age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at mound 1, Bornais, South Uist. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sharples, N. M. 2010. Social Relations in Later Prehistory: Wessex in the First Millennium BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Allen, M. J., Sharples, N. M. and O'Connor, T. 2009. Land and people: Papers in memory of John G. Evans. Prehistoric Society Research Papers Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Davis, O., Sharples, N. M. and Waddington, K. eds. 2008. Changing perspectives on the First Millennium BC: proceedings of the Iron Age Research Student Seminar 2006. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow.
- Sharples, N. M. 2005. A Norse farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: excavations at Mound 3, Bornais, South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Parker Pearson, M., Sharples, N. M. and Symonds, J. 2004. South Uist: archaeology and history of a Hebridean island. Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd.
- Parker Pearson, M. and Sharples, N. M. 1999. Between land and sea: excavations at Dun Vulan, South Uist. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
- Sharples, N. M. 1998. Scalloway: A broch, Late Iron Age settlement and Medieval cemetery in Shetland. Oxbow Monographs in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sharples, N. M. 1991. English Heritage book of Maiden Castle. London: B. T. Batsford/English Heritage.
- Sharples, N. 1991. Maiden Castle. Excavations and field survey 1985-6. Archaeological Report Vol. 19. London: English Heritage.
Monograffau
- Davis, O. et al. 2023. Trelai Park, Cardiff: An interim report on the 2022 excavations. Cardiff: Department of Archaeology & Conservation, School of History Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University.
- Davis, O. and Sharples, N. 2016. Excavations at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff, South Wales, 2015: an interim report. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff Studies in Archaeology.
- Davis, O., Sharples, N. and Wyatt, D. 2015. Excavations at Caerau hillfort, Cardiff, South Wales, 2014: an interim report. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: School of History Archaeology and Religion Cardiff University,. Available at: https://caerheritageprojectdotcom1.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/caerau-interim-v1-1.pdf
- Davis, O. and Sharples, N. M. 2014. Excavations at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff, South Wales, 2013: an interim report.. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff University. Available at: https://caerheritageprojectdotcom1.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/caerau-interim-web.pdf
- Waddington, K. E. and Sharples, N. . M. 2011. The excavations at Whitchurch 2006-2009: an interim report. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Department of Archaeology, School of History Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cf.ac.uk/share/resources/Whitchurch%20interim%20Web.pdf
- Sharples, N. M. ed. 2012. A late iron age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at mound 1, Bornais, South Uist. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sharples, N. M. 2011. Boundaries, status and conflict: an exploration of Iron Age research in the 20th century. In: Moore, T. and Armada, X. eds. Atlantic Europe in the first millennium BC: crossing the divide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 668-682.
- Waddington, K. E. and Sharples, N. . M. 2011. The excavations at Whitchurch 2006-2009: an interim report. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Department of Archaeology, School of History Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cf.ac.uk/share/resources/Whitchurch%20interim%20Web.pdf
- Sharples, N. M. 2010. Social Relations in Later Prehistory: Wessex in the First Millennium BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Allen, M. J., Sharples, N. M. and O'Connor, T. 2009. Land and people: Papers in memory of John G. Evans. Prehistoric Society Research Papers Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sharples, N. M. 2009. Beaker settlement in the Western Isles. In: Allen, M. J., Sharples, N. M. and O'Connor, T. eds. Land and People: Papers in Memory of John G. Evans. Prehistoric Society Research Papers Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 147-158.
- Sharples, N. M. and Smith, R. 2009. Norse settlement in the Western Isles. In: Woolf, A. ed. Scandinavian Scotland - Twenty Years After. St John's House Papers Vol. 12. St Andrews: The Committee for Dark Age Studies, University of St Andrews, pp. 103-130.
- Sharples, N. M. 2005. A Norse farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: excavations at Mound 3, Bornais, South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sharples, N. M. 1998. Scalloway: A broch, Late Iron Age settlement and Medieval cemetery in Shetland. Oxbow Monographs in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sharples, N. 1991. Maiden Castle. Excavations and field survey 1985-6. Archaeological Report Vol. 19. London: English Heritage.
Ymchwil
Projects
Hillforts
2007-ongoing. I am currently involved in a number of projects which are attempting to understand the role of hillforts in Later Prehistoric Britain.
- I am co-manager of the excavations at Ham Hill a joint University of Cardiff and Cambridge Archaeological Unit project that is excavating a large area in the interior of Britain's largest hillfort.
- I am a consultant for Herefordshire County Council working in particular on the excavations at Credenhill Camp in 2007 and 2008 and in their current project "An assessment of the Archaeological and Conservation Status of Major Later Prehistoric Enclosures in Herefordshire and Shropshire".
- I am academic leader for the University of Cardiff involvement with the CAER heritage Project, which is designed to understand the hillfort of Caerau, Ely, Cardiff.
These projects will provide an invaluable addition to our knowledge of the large hillforts of western Britain and have the potential to transform our understanding as previous explorations in these areas have been minimal. They build on my work at Maiden Castle in the 1980s and the reconsideration of the hillforts of Wessex in my book Social Relations in Later Prehistory.
South Uist
1995-ongoing. In the 1990s I co-directed a large fieldwork project on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides in collaboration with the University of Sheffield and others. This was designed to explore the history of settlement on the island from its initial occupation through to the clearences. A detailed account of the project is available on the project web site.
My principal excavations were at the site of Bornais and were undertaken between 1994 and 2004. These revealed one of the largest known Norse settlements in Scotland and a sequence of occupation dating from the 3rd century AD to the 14th century AD at Bornais, South Uist. Two volumes have now been published on these excavations and work is ongoing to complete the final volumes.
The site provides crucial evidence for the development of commercial fishing, the organisation of craft activities and the use of domestic space in the Norse period. The quantity of artefacts and the quality of the stratigraphy provide an unparalleled opportunity for understanding chronological changes during this period.
The project aims:
- To understand the nature of the Norse settlement of the North Atlantic.
- To understand the development of domestic architecture in the Atlantic fringe of Scotland.
- To understand the change nature of agricultural practice in a marginal and fragile ecosystem.
This project is funded by Historic Scotland and Cardiff University, and has a value of £240,000.
Middens and Whitchurch
2006-ongoing. I am working with Kate Waddington (University of Bangor) and Richard Madgwick on the problem of the large middens that appear in southern England in the first half of the first millennium BC. The project aims include:
- Understanding the conspicuous consumption required to create the large middens that are found at the beginning of the first millennium BC.
- Reconsidering the social role of metal production, us and deposition at the beginning of the first millennium BC.
- Examining the taphonomic processes that inform the accumulation of material in these extraordinary sites.
The principal field element of the project was the excavation of the midden at Whitchurch in Warwickshire, an unusual site that lies on the periphery of the distribution. The excavations should provide an important framework for the Late Bronze Age early Iron Age transition in the West Midlands. The project has also obtained a large number of radiocarbon dates from the midden at East Chisenbury which should provide an unparalleled opportunity to precisely date these sites.
This project is funded by the Archaeological Society, the Prehistoric Society, NERC and Cardiff University.
Addysgu
- Later Bronze Age Britain - 10 credits (HS2305)
- Iron Age Britain - 20 credits (HS2306)
- Complex Societies in Barbarian Europe - 10 credits (HS2365)
- Later Prehistoric Britain (HST730)
Bywgraffiad
Rwyf wedi graddio o Brifysgol Glasgow lle gwnes i radd archeoleg gyda thraethawd hir ar y cloddiadau ym meddrod siambr Ord North yn Sutherland. Ar ôl graddio, treuliais bum mlynedd yn gweithio yn Uned Ymchwil Arteffact o'r hyn a elwid bryd hynny yn Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Hynafiaethau'r Alban. Gwariwyd y rhan fwyaf o fy egni ar gyfarwyddo a goruchwylio gwaith maes yn Orkney ac Ynysoedd y Gorllewin ar safleoedd gan gynnwys Chwarel Pierowall a Chysylltiadau Noltland ar ynys Westray a Dalmore, ar Ynys Lewis.
Yn 1985 cefais fy nghyflogi i gyfarwyddo'r cloddiadau yng Nghastell Maiden yn Dorset. Cwblhawyd y prosiect hwn gyda chyhoeddi'r adroddiad cloddio a'r llyfr poblogaidd ym 1991. Yna dychwelais i'r Alban a chefais fy nghyflogi gan Historic Environment Scotland (Historic Environment Scotland erbyn hyn) i oruchwylio eu Cynllun Wardeiniaid Henebion, a oedd yn caniatáu imi ymweld â llawer o henebion aneglur a diddorol ledled y wlad. Yn 1995 cefais fy nghyflogi gan Brifysgol Caerdydd a phob un ers hynny rwyf wedi bod yn gweithio yn yr Adran Archaeoleg yn yr Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd. Yn 2012 fe ddes i'n Athro ac yn 2013 roeddwn i'n Bennaeth yr Ysgol am gyfnod byr.
Yn ystod fy nghyfnod ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd, rwyf wedi parhau i ymchwilio'n weithredol i gynhanes Prydain drwy wneud gwaith maes ar amrywiaeth o henebion archeolegol cyffrous; gan gynnwys y fryngaer ysblennydd yn Ham Hill, Gwlad yr Haf; y gaer a'r fryngaer sarnog yng Nghaerau, Caerdydd; yr Oes Efydd Diweddar/Oes Haearn Gynnar Midden yn yr Eglwys Newydd, Swydd Warwick; a'r anheddiad Oes Haearn ar Orosay, De Uist. Fodd bynnag, y prif ffocws ar gyfer fy ngweithgareddau gwaith maes fu'r anheddiad hanesyddol a Llychlynnaidd cynnar pwysig yn Bornais yn Ne Uist. Gwnaed gwaith cloddio ar y safle hwn rhwng 1995 a 2004 a daeth y gyfrol derfynol sy'n cwblhau cyhoeddi'r cloddiadau allan yn 2020.