Portmahomack : : Monastery of the Picts / / Martin Carver.
An archaeological window on a thousand formative years of the making of ScotlandPortmahomack today is a serene fishing village on the Dornoch Firth, north east Scotland where archaeological excavations have written a new history of the origins of Scotland. This book brings alive the expedition and i...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 60 B/W illustrations 24 colour illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Plates
- Tables
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1. Welcome to Portmahomack
- 2. Designing the Expedition
- 3. What We Found
- 4. An Elite Farmstead: Sixth to Seventh Centuries (Period 1)
- 5. The Monastery, its Rituals, Industries and Fate: Eighth Century (Period 2)
- 6. Serving New Masters: Ninth to Eleventh Centuries (Period 3)
- 7. Medieval Church and Village: Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries (Period 4)
- 8. Ritual Landscape, with Portage: The Tarbat Peninsula in History
- 9. Reflections
- References
- Index