Scotland: archaeology and early history

Authors:J. N. G. Ritchie, Anna Ritchie

Summary:Scotland 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.

Print Book, English, 1991

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Publisher: Edinburgh Eniversity Press, Edinburgh, 1991

Genre:History

Physical Description:206 pages : illustrations

ISBN:

9780748602919, 0748602917

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:221593436

Subjects:

Antiquities

Excavations (Archaeology)

Excavations (Archaeology) Scotland

Écosse Antiquités

Écosse Histoire

Historic sites

Historic sites Scotland

History

Lieux historiques Écosse

Megalithic monuments

Megalithic monuments Scotland

Monuments

Monuments Écosse

Monuments Scotland

Monuments mégalithiques Écosse

Scotland

Scotland Antiquities

Scotland History

Contents:

Hunters and fishermen; early farming communities - chambered tombs/settlements/pottery/stone axes and carved stone balls; Henge monuments and stone circles; the first metal workers - pottery and burials/cairns and standing stones/decorated stones/bronze and gold objects/settlements and agriculture; warrior celts - forts/palisaded homesteads and settlements/brochs/duns/crannogs/souterrains/wheelhouses/social structure and art; Roman Scotland - Gnaeus Julius Agricola/the Antonine wall/the Severan campaigns/forts and practice siege works/religious life; Britons, Angles and Scots; the Pictish Kingdom - Pictish art/Pictish society/the Church in Pictland/Fine metalwork/burials/forts and settlements.