Scotland, Archaeology and Early HistoryScotland is unusually rich in field monuments and objects surviving from early times. This comprehensive survey of Scotland's prehistoric and early historic archaeology covers the full chronological range from the earliest inhabitants to the union of the Picts and Scots in AD 843. Fully illustrated throughout, this book will help both students and visitors to monuments to understand the lifestyles of Scotland's early societies. |
Contents
Preface to Second Paperback Edition | 7 |
Hunters and Fishermen | 13 |
Henge Monuments and Stone Circles | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Scotland: Archaeology and Early History: A General Introduction J N Graham Ritchie Limited preview - 2019 |
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50 cm divisions Aberdeenshire Angus Antiq archaeological artefacts axes barrows beaker bone Britain broch Bronze Age Buckquoy building built burial Celtic central centre century Chambered cairn chambered tombs circular cist Class Clyde construction crannog cremation decorated deposits diameter ditch Dunadd early East Lothian Edinburgh entrance evidence example excavation Fife flint forts grooved ware henge monuments Hill hillforts hoard indicate inhumation Iona Ireland Iron Age island Jura Knap of Howar later Loch Mesolithic metalwork Mid Argyll millennium BC Neolithic north-east Northumbrian occupation Orkney Oronsay palisade passage-grave Peeblesshire period Perthshire Pictish Pictland Picts pottery Proc radiocarbon dates ring Rinyo Ritchie Roman Roxburghshire scale in 50 Scot Scotland Scottish settlement Shetland Skara Brae slabs souterrains south-west standing stones stone circles stone-built Stones of Stenness structure suggested survived symbol stones timber timber-laced tion Unstan Unstan ware upright vessels wall wheelhouse