Carried through the rushes: FDEMI prospection on the Isle of Eigg, Scotland

New Viking-age/Norse settlement and landing site hypothesis, Peat bog is a locational factor, Combining EMI and test trenching for challenging coastal island environment.
In the scope of the research project ‘The Norse and the Sea: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Scandinavian Scotland’ (Kalmring et al., 2022) archaeological and geophysical fieldwork was conducted on the island of Eigg (Inner Hebrides) in September 2022. The project itself embarked to apply Westerdahl’s concept of the Maritime Cultural Landscape (Westerdahl, 1992) onto the so-called ‘Western Viking Highway’ (Richie, 1993) in Western Scotland. While the project mainly aims to assemble existing data related to the overall topic, only limited, target-orientated fieldwork was carried out as individual case studies at particularly promising sites.