Olwyn Owen
Olwyn Owen FSA Scot | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Education | BA at Durham University and MA at Durham University |
| Occupation | Archaeologist |
| Known for | Expert in Viking history of Scotland |
Olwyn Owen, FSA Scot, is a British archaeologist and academic specialising in Scandianvian Scotland.[1]
She is an expert in Viking material culture, and has commented on the Galloway Hoard for National Geographic magazine.[2]
She has excavated widely in Scotland and Scandinavia and has had a long career in a range of heritage management roles.[3]
Owen is also an archaeological consultant and in March 2017, she was made Visiting Reader at Orkney College, University of Highlands and Islands.[4]
Education[edit]
She was awarded a BA in English[5] from Durham University in 1976, during which time she also took classes in archaeology under Rosemary Cramp.
In 1979, she completed her MA degree, also at Durham University, with a thesis on the English Urnes Style.
Career[edit]
Owen has written extensively on Scandinavian links with Scotland, and introduced audiences to Scotland's Viking past, for example in her book Things in the Viking World (2012).[6]
She appeared in an episode of Time Team series 5 episode 3, at Sanday, Orkney, which aired on 18 January 1998.
Selected works[edit]
- (1999) The Sea Road, Edinburgh, ISBN 0-86241-873-9.
- (1999) Scar: a Viking boat burial on Orkney (Tuckwell Press monograph; with Magnar Dalland)
- (1999) The Sea Road: a Viking voyage through Scotland (= The Making of Scotland series, Canongate).
- (1999) Kebister, Shetland: the four thousand year old story of one Shetland township (= Society of Antiquaries of Scotland monograph, 14; with C E Lowe).(2016) ‘A decorative mount from the Brough of Birsay, Orkney’, in Morris, C D (ed), The Birsay Bay Project 3.
- (2001) ‘The strange beast that is the English Urnes Style’, in Graham-Campbell, J, Hall, R, Jesch, J and Parsons, D N (eds), Vikings and the Danelaw, 203-22 (= Proceedings of the 13th Viking Congress, Oxbow).
- (2001) ‘The Southwell lintel, its style and significance’, in Graham-Campbell, J, Hall, R, Jesch, J and Parsons, D N (eds), Vikings and the Danelaw, 203-22 (= Proceedings of the 13th Viking Congress, Oxbow) (with Philip Dixon & David Stocker).(2016) Shetland and the Viking World: Papers from the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Viking Congress, Lerwick (eds Turner, V E, Owen, O A and Waugh, D J).
- (2002) ‘Sound Foundations: Archaeology in ’s towns and cities and the role of the Scottish Burgh Survey’, Antiquity 76 (2002), 802-807.
- (2002) ‘Inveresk and Historic Scotland: managing and protecting the archaeological remains’, in Bishop, M C (ed), Roman Inveresk: Past, Present and Future, 81-87. Armatvra Press.
- (2003) ‘Curiouser and curiouser: mysteries of Scar and Tuquoy, Orkney’, in Waugh, D J (ed), The Faces of Orkney: Stones, Skalds & Saints, 138-160 (= Scottish Society for Northern Studies, 11).
- (2004) ‘The Scar boat burial - and the missing decades of the early Viking Age in Orkney and Shetland’, in Adams, J & Holman, K (eds), Scandinavia and 800-1350, Contact, Conflict and Coexistence, 3-33 (= Medie Texts and Cultures of , 4, Brepols).
- (2005) ‘A brief guide to saga sites to visit in Orkney’, in Owen, O (ed) The World of Orkneyinga Saga – ‘The Viking Broad-cloth Trip’, 224-231.
- (2005) ‘History, archaeology and Orkneyinga saga: the case of Tuquoy’, in Owen, O (ed) The World of Orkneyinga Saga – ‘The Viking Broad-cloth Trip’, 192-212.
- (2005) ‘’s Viking towns: a contradiction in terms?’, in Mortensen, A & Arge, S V (eds), Viking and Norse in the North Atlantic, 297-306 (= Proceedings of the 14th Viking Congress, Faroe Islands).
- (2011) ‘Norse influence at Govan on the Firth of Clyde, Scotland’, in Sigmundsson, S (ed), Viking Settlements and Viking Society, 333-46 (= Proceedings of the 16th Viking Congress, ) (with Stephen Driscoll).
- (2012) Things in the Viking World. Lerwick (edited by O Owen), Shetland Amenity Trust, ISBN 978-0956569882
- (2013) Viking Unst: Excavation and Survey in Northern Shetland 2006-2010. Lerwick (edited by O Owen).
- (2013) 'The legacy of the Viking Unst project', in Turner, V E, Bond, J M and Larsen, A-C, Viking Unst: Excavation and Survey in Northern Shetland 2006-2010, 234-52 (with V E Turner).
- (2015) 'Galloway's Viking treasure: the story of a discovery', British Archaeology, no 140 (Jan/Feb 2015), 16-23.
References[edit]
- ^ "Olwyn Owen - Academia.edu". independent.academia.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ "Pictures: An Elite Viking's Prized Possessions". National Geographic News. 2016-03-23. Archived from the original on March 27, 2016. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ "Landing in Paradise: The Vikings in Scotland". Museums and Galleries Edinburgh. 2018-02-20. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ "Archaeology Institute - Staff". www.uhi.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ "Gazette, XXII (ns) including supplement". Durham University. p. 54.
- ^ "Town's Viking past to be revealed". 2013-09-16. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
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