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Set in stone: New approaches to Neolithic monuments in Scotland
edited by Vicki Cummings and Amelia Pannett
As its title might suggest, this volume sets out to present a new view of Scotland's Neolithic as seen via its monumental structures. The papers brought together here came out of a research day at Cardiff University's School of History and Archaeology in January 2002 and cover a diverse number of topics. They raise questions of ancestry and worldview, and highlight the amount that can be done in examining the settings of monuments. 128p, b/w ...
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Investigations in Sanday, Orkney: Vol 1 Excavations at Pool, Sanday
by John Hunter, with Julie M Bond and Andrea N Smith
Sanday is one of the most fertile of the Orkney islands, and these two volumes explore an unusually complete cultural landscape of prehistoric times. Together they demonstrate that the risk management strategies, subsistence base and related social arrangements of people living on islands on the North Atlantic fringe were different to those of populations in other areas of mainland Britain. Coastal erosion threatening the site at Pool on the west ...
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Investigations in Sanday, Orkney: Vol 2 Tofts Ness, Sanday. An island landscape through 3000 years of prehistory
by Stephen J Dockrill, with Julie M Bond, Andrea N Smith and Rebecca A Nicholson
Tofts Ness is a peninsula at the north end of the Orcadian island of Sanday where mounds and banks represent a domestic landscape, marginal even in island terms, together with a funerary landscape. A combination of selective excavation and geophysical survey during 1985-8 revealed settlement and cultivation spanning Neolithic to Early Iron Age times, including burnt mounds and traces of plough cultivation. The Neolithic inhabitants of Tofts Ness ...
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The Mote of Mark: A Dark Age Hillfort in South-West Scotland
by Lloyd Laing and David Longley
The Mote of Mark is a low boss of granite rising from forty-five metres above the eastern shore of Rough Firth, where the Urr Water enters the Solway, between the villages of Kippford and Rockcliffe. The summit comprises a central hollow between two raised areas of rock and was formerly defended by a stone and timber rampart enclosing one third of an acre. The Mote of Mark appears to have first attracted the attention of antiquaries in the late ...
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Barra and the Bishop's Isles: Living on the Margin
by Keith Branigan and Patrick Foster
Since 1988 Branigan and Foster have excavated over fifty sites and surveyed and identified hundreds more on these ten islands which make up the southern end of the Outer Hebrides. This interesting and accessible study of the types of sites identified reflects the difficulties of working in such a challenging landscape, where the traditional divisions of time into the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages and medieval period are blurred. ...
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A Norse Farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mound 3, Bornais, South Uist
by Niall Sharples
This volume examines South Uist, a small island in the soutern half of the Outer Hebrides. In the middle of the island lies the township of Bornais. This covers a particularly flat area of land which means that the three mounds can be seen all the more clearly. These mounds have been identified as being from the Viking period, with evidence of pre-Viking habitation at the site coming from Iron Age sherds. The excavation of the Bornais settlement ...
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Early Scottish Gardens
by Sheila Mackay
A detailed history of Scottish gardens from the 16th to 18th century based on a survey of literary references, paintings and drawings and visiting the gardens in their present, reconstructed state. Sheila Mackay looks at garden design and landscaping, their connection with fashions and interiors of the time, those employed to design, create and maintain gardens and how they were stocked, where the plants came from and the variety of species ...
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A Late Iron Age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mound 1, Bornais, South Uist
edited by Niall Sharples
The settlement at Bornais consists of a complex of mounds which protrude from the relatively flat machair plain in the township of Bornais on the island of South Uist. This sandy plain has proved an attractive settlement from the Beaker period onwards; it appears to have been intensively occupied from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Norse period. Mound 1 was the original location for settlement in this part of the machair plain; pre-Viking ...
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Exploring Environmental History: Selected Essays
by T.C. Smout
These essays taken from T.C. Smout's published work and papers given at conferences over the last two decades focus primarily on Scotland since 1600, tracing both the history of Scotland's environment and of peoples' interaction with it, as well as growing environmental consciousness and the birth of environmental history as a field of study in its own right. Topics include trees woodlands and forestry, bogs, soil and agriculture, biodiversity ...
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The Traprain Law Environs Project: Fieldwork and Excavations, 2000-2004
by Colin Haselgrove
This volume presents the results of fieldwork on the East Lothian coastal plain in south-east Scotland investigating the nature of later prehistoric settlement around the hillfort of Traprain Law. Following geomagnetic surveys at thirty sites, six enclosures were excavated, three extensively. All six had complex occupation histories, involving multiple acts of enclosure, as well as phases of open settlement and use for other purposes such as ...
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