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Caithness archaeology : aspects of prehistory / Andrew Heald & John Barber.
Penn Museum Library DA880.C1 H43 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heald, Andrew, author.
- Barber, John, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caithness (Scotland)--Antiquities.
- Caithness (Scotland).
- Caithness (Scotland)--History.
- Antiquities.
- Scotland--Caithness.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 168 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Caithness, Scotland : Whittles Publishing, [2015]
- Summary:
- Caithness is one of the richest cultural landscapes in Europe with a cornucopia of sites and monuments of outstanding quality in good states of preservation. The relative geographical isolation of the area, traditional landholding and the survival of large estates, combined with the use of flagstone as the main building material since earliest times, has ensured the survival of a wide range of monuments in a profusion unequalled elsewhere in Scotland. After much activity in the 19th century, the archaeology of Caithness has become somewhat marginalised. However the county is full of hidden riches with archaeology remains of all periods: chambered cairns, stone settings, brochs, Pictish settlements, wags, castles, harbours and post-medieval settlement, amongst many others. Working in the county for the last decade, the authors have discovered, observed and considered the archaeology, the results of which are presented in some new interpretations and perspectives which convey the excitement of working on heritage in Caithness. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 7
- Some practicalities 11
- Ten thousand years of archaeology in one afternoon 12
- The Yarrows landscape 12
- Monuments in the landscape 25
- 2 A religion, a calling, an obsession 27
- Ballachly 29
- St John's Point 29
- 3 Chambered cairns: mansions for the dead or temples for the living? 34
- Warehouse South, North and East 42
- South Yarrows North and South 45
- Gamster Round and Long 49
- 4 Cist burials of the Bronze Age 58
- Warehouse 5, Garrywhin, Warth Hill and Acharole 58
- Craig-na-Feich, Achavanich 59
- Reuse of Neolithic monuments 60
- 5 Stone rows, circles and bends 63
- Stone rows and cists 63
- Circles and bends 66
- 6 Brochs 71
- Kettleburn 73
- Yarrows and Brounaben 75
- Sir Francis Tress Barry and his Keiss estate 77
- The Keiss cluster 85
- Nybster 87
- 7 Waking the dead: Iron Age body parts 95
- Crosskirk 95
- Other Caithness evidence 96
- Whitegate 101
- 8 Pictish burials 103
- Garrywhin 103
- Keiss and Birkle Hills 103
- Ackergill 111
- 9 Wags 122
- Langwell 123
- Wag of Forse 123
- 10 Viking burials 127
- Reay 129
- Other graves? 130
- 11 Viking settlements and middens 131
- Freswick 131
- Robertsliaven 134
- Dunnct 134
- 12 Wells 136
- Whitegate well 136
- Kettleburn, Keiss and others 137
- 13 Artefacts 140
- The Achavrole brooch 140
- Bronze Age metals 142
- 14 Yet more circles and mounds ... and jelly babies 145
- Hut circles 145
- Crannogs 147
- Cellular buildings 148
- Forts 149
- 15 Some final thoughts 150.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-159) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781849951517
- 1849951519
- OCLC:
- 900444834
- Publisher Number:
- 99963791020
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