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Author : Historic Scotland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904966067
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Monuments of Shetland written by Historic Scotland and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noel Fojut
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Monuments of Shetland written by Noel Fojut and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 1993 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to Shetland's colorful history, described through its surviving monuments. From Neolithic settlements to Medieval castles plus a look at the eighteenth-century artillery defenses of Fort Charlotte. The book places each site in its historical context and guides the visitor around the surviving remains.
Author : Mike Salter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781871731774
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Ancient Monuments of Shetland written by Mike Salter and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Ritchie
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Shetland written by Anna Ritchie and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Shetland's heritage, this work includes a look at an 18th-century fort in Lerwick, a Viking-age farm beside Sumburgh Airport, Scotland's best-preserved iron-age broch on the island of Mousa, tombstones, and storehouses that illustrate Shetland's North Sea trade.
Author : Stijn Arnoldussen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303071652X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Europe's Early Fieldscapes written by Stijn Arnoldussen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the development of field systems through time and space and in their wider landscape context, including classical issues pertaining to past land use and management regimes, including manuring, water, land and crop management, and technologies such as slash‐and‐burn cultivation, and use of the ard and plough. This book provides the first comprehensive attempt to bring together and provide a comprehensive insight into the latest prehistoric fieldscape research across Europe. The book raises a broader awareness of some of the main questions and scientific requests that are addressed by scholars working in various fieldscapes across Europe. Themes addressed in this book include (a) mapping and understanding field system morphologies at various scales, (b) the extraction of information on social processes from field system morphologies, (c) the relations between field systems and cultural and natural features of their environment, (d) time-depths and temporalities of usage, and (e) specifics of the underlying agricultural systems, with special attention to matters of continuity and resilience and relation to changing practices. The case-studies explore how to best approach such landscapes with traditional and novel methodologies and targeted research in order to enhance our knowledge further. The volume offers inspiration and guidance for the heritage management of fieldscape heritage – not solely for future scholarly research but foremost to stimulate strategic guidance to frame and support improved protection of evidently vulnerable resources for Europe’s future. This volume is of interest to landscape archaeologists.
Author : Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Twelfth Report with an Inventory of the Ancient Monuments of Orkney & Shetland written by Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orkney and Shetland written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gilbert Goudie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104569174
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (691 download)
Download or read book The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland (1904) written by Gilbert Goudie and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Beverley Ballin Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004158936
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book West Over Sea written by Beverley Ballin Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of 30 papers on the broad subject of the Scandinavian expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic, with a particular emphasis on settlement. The volume has been prepared in tribute to the work of Barbara E. Crawford on this subject, and to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of her seminal book, Scandinavian Scotland. Reflecting Dr Crawford's interests, the papers cover a range of disciplines, and are arranged into four main sections: History and Cultural Contacts; The Church and the Cult of Saints; Archaeology, Material Culture and Settlement; Place-Names and Language. The combination provides a variety of new perspectives both on the Viking expansion and on Scandinavia's continued contacts across the North Sea in the post-Viking period.Contributors include: Lesley Abrams, Haki Antonsson, Beverley Ballin Smith, James Barrett, Paul Bibire, Nicholas Brooks, Dauvit Broun, Margaret Cormac, Neil Curtis, Clare Downham, Gillian Fellows-Jensen, Ian Fisher, Katherine Forsyth, Peder Gammeltoft, Sarah Jane Gibbon, Mark Hall, Hans Emil Liden, Christopher Lowe, Joanne McKenzie, Christopher Morris, Elizabeth Okasha, Elizabeth Ridel, Liv Schei, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Brian Smith, Steffen Stumann Hansen, Frans Arne Stylegård, Simon Taylor, William Thomson, Gareth Williams, Doreen Waugh and Alex Woolf.
Author : Caroline Wickham-Jones
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905910
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Orkney written by Caroline Wickham-Jones and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orkney lies only 20 miles north of mainland Scotland, yet for many centuries its culture was more Scandanavian than Scottish. Strong westerly winds account for the scarcity of trees on Orkney and also for the tradition of well-constructed stone structures. As a result, the islands boast a large number of exceptionally well-preserved remains, which help us to form a detailed picture of Orcadian life through the ages. Sites and remains to be explored include settlements from the Stone Age, stone circles and burials from the Bronze Age, Iron Age brochs, Viking castles, the magnificent cathedral of St Magnus in Kirkwall, Renaissance palaces, a Martello tower from the Napoleonic Wars and numerous remains from the Second World War. In this updated edition of her best-selling book, Caroline Wickham-Jones, who has worked extensively on Orcadian sites for many years, introduces the history of the islands and provides a detailed survey of the principal places and sites of historic interest.
Author : Gilbert Goudie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland written by Gilbert Goudie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1904 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Val Turner
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ancient Shetland written by Val Turner and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dolly Jørgensen
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077482574X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Northscapes written by Dolly Jørgensen and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the unique environments of the North have been borne of the relationship between humans and nature. Approaching the topic through the lens of environmental history, the contributors examine a broad range of geographies, including those of Iceland and other islands in the Northern Atlantic, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada, over a time span ranging from CE 800 to 2000. Northscapes is bound together by the intellectual project of investigating the North both as an imagined and mythologized space and as an environment shaped by human technology. The North offers a valuable analytical framework that surpasses nation-states and transgresses political and historical borders. This volume develops rich explorations of the entanglements of environmental and technological history in the northern regions of the globe
Author : Dennis W. Harding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113441787X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Iron Age in Northern Britain written by Dennis W. Harding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the impact of the Roman expansion northwards, and the native response to the Roman occupation on both sides of the frontiers. It traces the emergence of historically-recorded communities in the post-Roman period and looks at the clash of cultures between Celts and Romans, Picts and Scots. Northern Britain has too often been seen as peripheral to a 'core' located in south-eastern England. Unlike the Iron Age in southern Britain, the story of which can be conveniently terminated with the Roman conquest, the Iron Age in northern Britain has no such horizon to mark its end. The Roman presence in southern and eastern Scotland was militarily intermittent and left untouched large tracts of Atlantic Scotland for which there is a rich legacy of Iron Age settlement, continuing from the mid-first millennium BC to the period of Norse settlement in the late first millennium AD. Here D.W. Harding shows that northern Britain was not peripheral in the Iron Age: it simply belonged to an Atlantic European mainstream different from southern England and its immediate continental neighbours.
Author : SallyM. Foster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351577840
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Able Minds and Practiced Hands written by SallyM. Foster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years on from J Romilly Allen and Joseph Anderson's 1903 landmark publication, The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, twenty six essays explore the current state of knowledge of early medieval sculpture in Scotland. They demonstrate the unique value of this material in contributing to our understanding of the society and people that created it between 1000 to 1500 years ago. Today's approaches and techniques offer new insights, as well as great hope, for what might be learnt from future study of 'familiar' and new material alike. The essays exemplify the ever-diversifying, interdisciplinary approaches that are being taken to the study of early medieval sculpture. Key themes that emerge include: the interdependence of conservation, research and access; the need for a 21st-century inventory of the sculpture; the breadth and value of the wide range of the research tools that now exist; conservation issues, including the politics of how and where sculpture should be protected, and the pressing need to identify priorities for action; and, what is probably the most important development over the last 100 years, the increase in awareness of the range of values and significances that attaches to early medieval sculpture, including appreciation of context.
Author : D. W. Harding
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199558574
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Iron Age Round-House written by D. W. Harding and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully illustrated study of Iron Age round-houses, which explores not just their architectural aspects 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.
Author : Amanda Brend
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789255090
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Landscapes Revealed written by Amanda Brend and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together several years of work devoted to the wider landscape of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It documents the results of a programme of geophysical and related survey across an area of c. 285 hectares between Skara Brae on the west Orkney coast and Maeshowe, by the Loch of Stenness. The project has made it possible to talk for the first time about the landscape context of some of the most remarkable and renowned prehistoric monuments in Western Europe. The aims are to synthesise the data from different forms of survey and to document the changing character and development of this landscape over time. The results are genuinely remarkable are presented in a manner which makes the material of interest and value to a relatively wide readership, with an array of images which fully document and interpret the evidence. Survey work at a landscape scale tends to deal with palimpsests. Here descriptive sections are set within a thematic structure designed to explore the changing use and significance of different areas over time. The results shed important new light on the character and extent of known prehistoric sites and ceremonial monuments. But they also document the afterlives of these and other places and their relation to the lived landscapes of the historic and more recent past. In tracing the changing configuration of the World Heritage Area, we can begin appreciate this landscape as an artefact of several millennia of dwelling, working land, attending to wider worlds and to the past itself.
