Author: George FerrierPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
North Berwick and Its Vicinity, with Descriptive and Historical Notices of the Bass Rock, Tantallon Castle, and Other Interesting Objects and Localities
Author: George FerrierNorth Berwick and Its Vicinity, with Descriptive and Historical Notices of the Bass Rock, Tantallon Castle, and Other Interesting Objects and Localities
Author: George FerrierNorth Berwick and Its Vicinity
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Category : East Lothian (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
North Berwick and its vicinity
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Category : East Lothian (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
North Berwick ... with a Descriptive Account of the Bass Rock, Tantallon Castle, and Other Objects in Its Vicinity
Author: George FerrierA Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography
Author: Sir Arthur MitchellPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Medieval Kirk, Cemetery and Hospice at Kirk Ness, North Berwick
Author: Thomas AddymanPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1842176633
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Between 1999-2006 Addyman Archaeology carried out extensive archaeological excavations on the peninsular site of Kirk Ness, North Berwick, during the building, landscaping and extension of the Scottish Seabird Centre. This book presents the results of these works but its scope is much broader. Against the background of important new discoveries made at the site it brings together and re-examines all the evidence for early North Berwick – archaeological, historical, documentary, pictorial and cartographic – and includes much previously unpublished material. An essential new resource, it opens a fascinating window on the history of the ancient burgh. Kirk Ness is well known as the site of the medieval church of the parish and later royal burgh of North Berwick but it has long been suggested that it was also a centre of early Christian activity. The dedication of the church to St Andrew was speculatively linked to the translation of the Saint's relics to St Andrews in Fife in the 8th century. An early medieval component of the site was indeed confirmed by the excavation, with structural remains, individual finds and an important new series of radiocarbon dates. Occupation of a domestic character may possibly reflect a monastic community associated with an early church. Individual finds included stone tools, lead objects, ceramic material and a faunal assemblage that included bones of butchered seals, fish and seabirds such as the now-extinct Great Auk. The site continued in use as the medieval and early post-medieval parish and burgh church of St Andrew. In this period Kirk Ness and its harbour was an important staging point for pilgrims on route to the shrine of St Andrew in Fife. Domestic occupation discovered in the excavations is likely to be associated with a pilgrims’ hospice, also suggested in historical sources. This publication also provides a new analysis of the church ruin and an account of the major unpublished excavation of the site carried out in 1951-52 by the scholar and antiquary Dr James Richardson, Scotland's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments and resident of North Berwick. The excavations also revealed areas of the cemetery associated with the church, dating to the 12th–17th centuries, where inhumations presented notable contrasts in burial practice. Osteological study shed much light upon the health and demographics of North Berwick’s early population and identified one individual who met with a particularly violent death.
Bibliography of Monuments in the Care of the Secretary of State for Scotland
Author: Morag CrossPublisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
North Berwick
Author: North Berwick Historical SocietyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738598216
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
North Berwick's earliest settlers heavily relied on the Great Works River and the Negutaquet River to transport animal skins and other goods to the seaport in Kittery. Shortly after John Morrill built North Berwick's first cabin in 1690, great homes belonging to families such as Hobbs, Weymouth, Buffum, Nowell, and Estes began to line North Berwick's quiet streets and dot its sweeping countryside. Businesses started to flourish, and the town expanded into a community of hardworking families who were proud to build their homes and raise their children there. North Berwick shares photographs of the factories, mills, farms, churches, schools, and small businesses that thrived because of their proximity to rivers and later the railroad. Within these pages, readers will see how members of this rural community used natural resources and their ingenuity to establish a small New England town of wealth and industry.