Author: Euan Wallace MacKiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brochs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland, C. 700 BC - AD 500
Author: Euan Wallace MacKiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brochs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland C. 700 BC - AD 500, Part 2, Volumes I and II
Author: Euan W. MacKiePublisher: British Archaeological Reports
ISBN: 9781407301327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
Book Description
This massive 2 volume set forms the second and final part of Euan MacKie's corpus of Iron Age brochs and related sites from Atlantic Scotland. It is a compendium of the available archaeological evidence for each of the sites in the region and contains descriptions of the material remains, finds, and excavations (although many sites have yet to be excavated), along with a host of plans and photographs, as well as evidence for dating and site sequences. Includes an extensive bibliography.
The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland, C. 700 BC-AD 500
Author: Euan Wallace MacKiePublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN: 9781407301334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
This two-volume, second and final part of this descriptive corpus of the Iron Age brochs and allied sites of Scotland covers the whole of the mainland and all of the western islands - the Inner and Outer Hebrides - and is about twice the size of volume 1. The amount of new data presented here is very much larger than in volume 1 (Orkney and Shetland), partly because there are many more sites to describe but mainly for the reason that - with the exception of the Outer Hebrides - the large number and variety of sites in the areas covered tend to be much less well known than those of the Northern Isles; very few sites in this vast area have been subjected to modern excavation. The main purpose of this work is to present in easily accessible form a much larger proportion of the archaeological evidence for the remarkable Scottish Atlantic Iron Age structures known as brochs and wheelhouses than is currently conveniently available.Another hope is that this compendium will encourage many more archaeologists from outside Scotland to take an interest in the subject, and in particular to bring the material to the attention of their students. This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407301334 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407301341 (Volume II); ISBN 9781407301327 (Set of both volumes).
The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland C. 700 BC-AD 500
Author: Euan Wallace MacKiePublisher:
ISBN: 9781407301334
Category : Brochs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland, C. 700 BC - AD 500: The Orkney and Shetland Isles
Author: Euan Wallace MacKiePublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Brochs, roundhouses and wheelhouses are an ill-understood part of Scotland's archaeological heritage even though they are a fairly widespread phenomenon across northern and north-west Sotland and the western and northern islands. This volume is the first part of a project attempting to collate information on these structures and presents a large corpus of data on the buildings and the artefacts that have been found in association with them. The data is presented on an island-by-island and site-by-site basis. Two further sections on the best preserved example, a tower on Mousa in Shetland, and a discussion on the development of broch studies since the 16th century, are also given.
The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland, C. 700 BC - AD 500: no. 1-2. The northern and southern mainland and the western islands
Author: Euan Wallace MacKiePublisher:
ISBN: 9781407301334
Category : Brochs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland, C. 700 BC-AD 500: The Northern and southern mainland and the western isles
Author: Euan Wallace MacKiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brochs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland, C. 700 BC-AD 500
Author: Euan Wallace MacKiePublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN: 9781407301341
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The Scottish broch ¿ symbolized by the lonely tower on Mousa island in Shetland ¿ has, since the early years of the 18th century, excited the curiosity of archaeologists, antiquaries, and lay persons alike. The great piles of rubble, or the green mounds covering their massive ruins (dated c.700 BC ¿ AD 500), are everywhere to be seen in the western and northern islands and in the north-eastern counties of Caithness and Sutherland, often in upland places where there are few other signs of dynamic human habitation. Indeed, part of the fascination of the brochs is that these abundant signs of about 1200 years of human dynamic human energy and organization are concentrated in the maritime region of the far north and west of Scotland which, until the discovery of oil focused attention on the importance of the sea again, seemed remote in every sense from the centres of population of the modern UK. Most writers about brochs in the past have tended to rely for their conclusions on a relatively small number of well-known sites. Apart from the from the work of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland there has never been a systematic attempt to collate all the available data about brochs everywhere, and the finds made in them. This is one of the tasks the author set himself in 1961, soon after arriving in Scotland, and this volume is the first half of the result. This thorough study includes 329 illustrations, plans, photographs and maps, as well as an Index of site names and an Appendix of over 400 Iron Age artefacts drawn by author.
The Iron Age Round-House
Author: D. W. HardingPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191572268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
In contrast to Continental Europe, where the Iron Age is abundantly represented by funerary remains as well as by hill-forts and major centres, the British Iron Age is mainly represented by its settlement sites, and especially by houses of circular ground-plan, apparently in marked contrast to the Central and Northern European tradition of rectangular houses. In lowland Britain the evidence for timber round-houses comprises the footprint of post-holes or foundation trenches; in the Atlantic north and west, the remains of monumental stone-built houses survive as upstanding ruins, testimony to the building skills of Iron Age engineers and masons. D. W. Harding's fully illustrated study explores not just the architectural aspects of round-houses, but more importantly their role in the social, economic and ritual structure of their communities, and their significance as symbols of Iron Age society in the face of Romanization.
The Archaeology of Roman Britain
Author: Adam RogersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317633849
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Within the colonial history of the British Empire there are difficulties in reconstructing the lives of people that came from very different traditions of experience. The Archaeology of Roman Britain argues that a similar critical approach to the lives of people in Roman Britain needs to be developed, not only for the study of the local population but also those coming into Britain from elsewhere in the Empire who developed distinctive colonial lives. This critical, biographical approach can be extended and applied to places, structures, and things which developed in these provincial contexts as they were used and experienced over time. This book uniquely combines the study of all of these elements to access the character of Roman Britain and the lives, experiences, and identities of people living there through four centuries of occupation. Drawing on the concept of the biography and using it as an analytical tool, author Adam Rogers situates the archaeological material of Roman Britain within the within the political, geographical, and temporal context of the Roman Empire. This study will be of interest to scholars of Roman archaeology, as well as those working in biographical themes, issues of colonialism, identity, ancient history, and classics.