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Bu, Gurness, and the Brochs of Orkney Part I [Paperback]
John W. Hedges (Author)
$40.00Out of stock
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Settlements at Skaill, Deerness, Orkney [Paperback]
Simon Buteux (Author)
$75.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780860548645
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study documents excavations by Peter Gelling of Prehistoric, Pictish, Viking and later remains at Skaill from 1963-1981. The earliest evidence of occupation was provided by ard-marks cut into the subsoil, which relate to cultivation in th... .... Learn More -
Bu, Gurness, and the Brochs of Orkney, Part III [Paperback]
John W. Hedges (Author)
$40.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780860544364
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Part III: The Brochs of Orkney. .... Learn More -
Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900-1600 [Hardback]
James H. Barrett (Editor)
$118.00ISBN: 9781902937618
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Quoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937. Focusing on the archaeology of its first 700 years, this volume explores how 'small worlds' both re... .... Learn More -
Investigations in Sanday, Orkney Vol 2: Tofts Ness, Sandnay - An island landscape through 3000 years of prehistory [Hardback]
Steve Dockrill (Author); Julie M Bond (Author); Andrea N Smith (Author); Rebecca Nicholson (Author)
$77.00ISBN: 9781902957289
Published by : The Orcadian Ltd
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 geop... .... Learn More -
Investigations in Sanday Orkney: Vol 1 Excavations at Pool, Sanday - A multi-period settlement from Neolithic to Late Norse times [Hardback]
John Hunter (Author);Julie M Bond (Author);Andrea N Smith (Author);Andrea N. Smith (Author)
$97.00ISBN: 9781902957296
Published by : The Orcadian Ltd
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 s... .... Learn More -
Between the Wind and the Water: World Heritage Orkney [Paperback]
Caroline Wickham-Jones (Author); C.R. Wickham-Jones (Author)
$35.00ISBN: 9781905119066
Published by : Windgather Press
The great archaeological sites of Orkney - the village of Skara Brae, The Ring of Brodgar, the Stones of Stenness and the burial mound of Maeshowe - give us an unparalleled glimpse into the world of the Neolithic. Inscribed as a World Heritage ... .... Learn More -
St Boniface Church Orkney: Coastal Erosion and Archaeological Assessment [Hardback]
Christopher Lowe (Author)
Regular Price: $69.95
Special Price: $19.98
ISBN: 9780750917551
Published by : Sutton Publishing Ltd
Report from the excavations in May and June 1990, undertaken in response to the threat of ever-encroaching coastal erosion. It both explores the chronological and physical extent of the site from the Bronze Age to the present day, and aims to f... .... Learn More -
Howe: Four Millennia of Orkney Prehistory [Paperback]
Beverley Ballin Smith (Author)
$58.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780903903097
Published by : Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Series: uk/ne-sett
Excavations at Howe between 1978 and 1982 presented an unparalleled opportunity to examine the extensive and complex remains of a broch settlement, and thereby more fully understand the stages of evolution from roundhouse to massive complex ro... .... Learn More -
The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c. 700BC - AD 500. Part 1: The Orkney and Shetland Isles [Paperback]
Euan W. MacKie (Author)
$112.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781841714592
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
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 th... .... Learn More
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