The origin centre of the Pictish symbol stones
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Author | : Elizabeth Sutherland |
Publisher | : Birlinn Publishers |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
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This guide to the Picts covers all known Pictish stones. It incorporates the latest discoveries, along with a full listing of symbols and their possible meaning, a complete gazetteer, and location maps with ordnance survey grid references.
Author | : Iain Fraser |
Publisher | : Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : James Carnegie Earl of Southesk |
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Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Art, Pictish |
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Author | : Anthony Jackson |
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Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Art, Pictish |
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Author | : Gordon Noble |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2019-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788851935 |
Some years ago a revolution took place in Early Medieval history in Scotland. The Pictish heartland of Fortriu, previously thought to be centred on Perthshire and the Tay found itself relocated through the forensic work of Alex Woolf to the shores of the Moray Firth. The implications for our understanding of this period and for the formation of Scotland are unprecedented and still being worked through. This is the first account of this northern heartland of Pictavia for a more general audience to take in the full implications of this and of the substantial recent archaeological work that has been undertaken in recent years. Part of the The Northern Picts project at Aberdeen University, this book represents an exciting cross disciplinary approach to the study of this still too little understood yet formative period in Scotland's history.
Author | : Alastair Mack |
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Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Archaeology, Medieval |
ISBN | : 9781874012061 |
Author | : Stuart McHardy |
Publisher | : Luath Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2020-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1912387816 |
Stuart McHardy examines the Pictish symbols which have been discovered on various items across Scotland. The book sets out a cohesive interpretation of the Pictish past, using a variety of both temporal and geographical sources. This interpretation serves as a backdrop for his analysis of the symbols themselves, providing a context for his suggestion that there was an underlying series of ideas and beliefs behind the creation of the symbols.
Author | : Iain Fraser |
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Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art, Pictish |
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Author | : Martin Carver |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 074869997X |
Portmahomack 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 its discoveries, most famously a monastery of the eighth century in the land of the Picts. Starting from chance finds of a Pictish carved stone in St Colman's churchyard, the archaeologists unearthed four settlements one on top of the other. An elite farm was succeeded by the Pictish monastery, which, following a Viking raid in AD800, became a trading place and then a medieval village. Scientific analysis shows at each stage where the people came from, their life-style and what they ate. Together it creates a story of the heroic adaptation of a European nation to new politics between the sixth and sixteenth century. The Picts were the outstanding sculptors of their day, producing carved stone monuments equal to anything being made in contemporary Europe. They were Britons, who resisted the Romans invaders and created their own warrior nation in the north east of the island. Coming under pressure from the Scots and the Norse, they disappeared from history in the ninth century AD. Now archaeology is finding them again. This massively updated new edition follows eight years intensive research on the huge assemblage of artefacts, human bone, animal bone and plant remains that were recovered. This has revealed a world of high mobility, rich in ideas and constantly changing it political orientation in a greater European context.