In The Shadow Of Bennachie PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download In The Shadow Of Bennachie PDF full book. Access full book title In The Shadow Of Bennachie.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download In the Shadow of Bennachie Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Richly illustrated with photographs, maps and drawn plans, this volume brings together various strands of archaeology, history and geography to uncover a remarkable past and the way it has shaped the modern landscape.
Author | : Rcahms |
Publisher | : Royal Commission on the Ancient & |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2009-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781902419619 |
Download In the Shadow of Bennachie Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Lying in the north-east of Scotland, beyond the mountain barrier of the Mounth, the River Don drains a tract of country in excess of 1600 sq km, including both the richest farmland and many of the area's most spectacular monuments. This is a guide to the Donside landscape.
Author | : John Malcolm Bulloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Genealogy |
ISBN | : |
Download Scottish Notes and Queries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Gordon Noble |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2019-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788851935 |
Download The King in the North Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : D. W. Harding |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2023-01-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0192893807 |
Download Rethinking Roundhouses Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Excavated plans of roundhouses may compound multiple episodes of activity, design, construction, occupation, repair, and closure, reflecting successive stages of a building's biography. What does not survive archaeologically, through use of materials or methods that leave no tangible trace, may be as important for reconstruction as what does survive, and can only be inferred from context or comparative evidence. The great diversity in structural components suggests a greater diversity of superstructure than was implied by the classic Wessex roundhouses, including split-level roofs and penannular ridge roofs. Among the stone-built houses of the Atlantic north and west there likewise appears to have been a range of regional and chronological variants in the radial roundhouse series, and probably within the monumental Atlantic roundhouses too. Important though recognition of structural variants may be, morphological classification should not be allowed to override the social use of space for which the buildings were designed, whether their structural footprint was round or rectangular. Atlantic roundhouses reveal an important division between central space and peripheral space, and a similar division may be inferred for lowland timber roundhouses, where the surviving evidence is more ephemeral. Some larger houses were evidently byre-houses or barn houses, some with upper or mezzanine floor levels, in which livestock might be brought in or agricultural produce stored. Such 'great houses' doubtless served community needs beyond those of the resident extended family. The massively-increased scale of development-led excavations of recent years has resulted in an increased database that enables evaluation of individual sites in a wider landscape environment than was previously possible. Circumstances of recovery and recording in commercially-driven excavations, however, are not always compatible with research objectives, and the undoubted improvements in standards of environmental investigation are sometimes offset by shortcomings in the publication of basic structural or stratigraphic detail.
Author | : Eleanor Casella |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2022-04-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 019969396X |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Through international and multi-period chapters, this volume explores the origins and development of industrialisation from its emergence in 18th century Europe to its contemporary ubiquity. It interrogates the widespread exploitation of natural resources that forged industrialisation and its environmental and social legacy in our globalised world.
Author | : David Kerr Cameron |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857909096 |
Download The Cornkister Days Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With a knowledge and a skill that reveals his passion for the land and its people, David Kerr Cameron picks his way through the rural upheavals and developments of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries towards the landscape we recognise today. In doing so he provides a wide-sweeping and unforgettable view of our rural history and completes his great rural trilogy portraying the old farming landscapes of Scotland's North-east Lowlands. Both nostalgia and great understanding are revealed as the author recalls a society based on the plough, a society that moved 'against the tapestry of the year: 'This was the backcloth against which the farmtoun folk lived out their days; its seasons and rituals governed their lives, and ultimately their destinies. Here now is that story, the story of a landscape all but lost before the onward march of agri-business and agri-technology'. The days recalled are the days of the Clydesdale horse and the hired man, the cottar and crofter, the farmtoun tenant and his laird.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2010-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004188010 |
Download Pictish Progress Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Survey chapters analyse advances in studies of Pictish culture during the last fifty years. Inter-disciplinary case studies cover archaeology, place-names, history, liturgy, and history within a wider European framework.
Author | : John Hill |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2021-03-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1527567400 |
Download The Recumbent Stone Circles of Aberdeenshire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Recumbent Stone Circles are a distinctive architectural style of British stone circle. Built circa 2500 BC, they dominated the Late Neolithic landscape of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This book discusses their archaeology and, using experimental archaeology, explains how the original builders went about building these magnificent stone circles. Sharing the results of the author’s unique experiments, the book demonstrates how measured ropes were used to set out the geometrical design of the stone rings, as well as dictate the dimensions of the circle’s respective orthostats. Moreover, given the book’s provision of instructions on to repeat these experiments, the reader will be able to explore how these circles not only captured their corresponding astronomy, but how they were also positioned in the landscape so that they were astronomically aligned towards each other, creating a network of inter-aligned stone circles that enabled the prehistoric communities to synchronise both time and space across the vast regions of Aberdeenshire.
Author | : Roberta Gilchrist |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 689 |
Release | : 2018-12-13 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1351551884 |
Download Reflections: 50 Years of Medieval Archaeology, 1957-2007: No. 30 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Society for Medieval Archaeology (established in 1957), presenting reflections on the history, development and future prospects of the discipline. The papers are drawn from a series of conferences and workshops that took place in 2007-08, in addition to a number of contributions that were commissioned especially for the volume. They range from personal commentaries on the history of the Society and the growth of the subject (see papers by David Wilson and Rosemary Cramp), to historiographical, regional and thematic overviews of major trends in the evolution and current practice of medieval archaeology. All the publications are fully refereed with the aim of publishing at the highest academic level reports on sites of national and international importance, and of encouraging the widest debate. The series’ objectives are to cover the broadest chronological and geographical range and to assemble a series of volumes which reflect the changing intellectual and technical scope of the discipline.