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Author : John Watts
Publisher : Ovada Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9781905965007
This is a tale of the West Highlands in the 18th century, told as the autobiography of a tenant farmer of North Morar.
Author : John Watts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1858213673
Author : Patrick Foster
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 1850755078
Over the past six years a team of archaeologists, historians and environmental scientists from the University of Sheffield explored the island of Barra.They have discovered and recorded many hundreds of previously unknown sites and monuments, excavated selected examples, and carried out extensive environmental sampling and laboratory based analysis of all this evidence. The first volume of reports focuses on the wild and rocky peninsula of Tangaval at the south-western corner of the island. In this seemingly inhospitable place, on the westernmost margin of Europe, perched on the very edge of the Atlantic Ocean, the team have discovered almost 250 sites and monuments. They range from the first rock-shelter and occupation huts of the earliest settlers around 4000 BC to the abandoned settlements from which Macneils sailed to new homes in America and Australasia in the mid-nineteenth century BC.
Author : Christian Maclagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Fortification, Prehistoric
ISBN : PRNC:32101078171590
Author : Hector Munro Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107686557
This 1950 book, produced as a memorial for Cambridge historian H. M. Chadwick, contains contributions on aspects of early culture in Northwestern Europe.
Author : James O'Laverty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Parishes
ISBN : OXFORD:555050557
Author : John Barnatt,Bill Bevan,Mark Edmonds
Publisher : Windgather Press is
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781911188186
Gardom's Edge is an area of gritstone upland situated on the Eastern Moors of the Derbyshire Peak District. Like other parts of the Eastern Moors, Gardom's Edge has long been renowned for the wealth of prehistoric field systems, cairns and other structures which can still be traced across the surface. Drawing on the results of original survey and excavation, An Upland Biography documents prehistoric activity across this area, exploring the changing character of occupation from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age. It also tacks back and forth between local detail and regional patterns, to better understand the broader social worlds in which Gardom's Edge was set.
Author : Eberhard Sauer
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 1688 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789251937
The Huns, invading through Dariali Gorge on the modern-day border between Russia and Georgia in AD 395 and 515, spread terror across the late antique world. Was this the prelude to the apocalypse? Prophecies foresaw a future Hunnic onslaught, via the same mountain pass, bringing about the end of the world. Humanity’s fate depended on a gated barrier deep in Europe’s highest and most forbidding mountain chain. Centuries before the emergence of such apocalyptic beliefs, the gorge had reached world fame. It was the target of a planned military expedition by the Emperor Nero. Chained to the dramatic sheer cliffs, framing the narrow passage, the mythical fire-thief Prometheus suffered severe punishment, his liver devoured by an eagle. It was known under multiple names, most commonly the Caspian or Alan Gates. Featuring in the works of literary giants, no other mountain pass in the ancient and medieval world matches Dariali’s fame. Yet little was known about the materiality of this mythical place. A team of archaeologists has now shed much new light on the major gorge-blocking fort and a barrier wall on a steep rocky ridge further north. The walls still standing today were built around the time of the first major Hunnic invasion in the late fourth century – when the Caucasus defences feature increasingly prominently in negotiations between the Great Powers of Persia and Rome. In its endeavour to strongly fortify the strategic mountain pass through the Central Caucasus, the workforce erased most traces of earlier occupation. The Persian-built bastion saw heavy occupation for 600 years. Its multi-faith medieval garrison controlled Trans-Caucasian traffic. Everyday objects and human remains reveal harsh living conditions and close connections to the Muslim South, as well as the steppe world of the north. The Caspian Gates explains how a highly strategic rock has played a pivotal role in world history from Classical Antiquity into the twentieth century.
Author : Mary E. Gage
Publisher : Powwow River Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781733805711
The main complex of the America’s Stonehenge site in New Hampshire is a collection of stone chambers, enclosures, niches, standing stones, carved drains & basins, and astronomical alignments. The archaeological community has largely dismissed this seemly eclectic collection of structures as the work of an eccentric farmer named Jonathan Pattee who built his house on top of the ruins in the 19th century. Other researchers have sought to compare the chambers and astronomical alignments to stone structures from around the world built by other ancient peoples. No one has thought to evaluate the site on its own merits, specifically evaluating its architecture. Architecture can tell you a lot about a culture. Using this approach the author unravels the mystery surrounding the site. This architectural study revealed the site was built in a series of distinct phases each with its own unique style while at the same time incorporating key concepts and ideas from previous phases. There is a clear evolution of building skills and cultural ideas that can be followed through the architectural build-out of the site. Because key features and ideas were carried forward from one phase to the next, we now know that the site was the work of a single culture over a several thousand year period. Stone tools and pottery recovered from archaeological excavations at the site confirm that the builders were Native Americans. The idea of Native Americans building stone structures for ceremonial and spiritual purposes has gained a lot of credibility over the past twenty-five years. There is mounting evidence that hundreds of ceremonial stone landscapes (CSL) with stone cairns, niches, enclosures, standings stones, chambers and astronomical alignments found throughout northeastern United States are part of a broad based Native American cultural tradition. The America’s Stonehenge site is one of the most sophisticated and culturally complex of these sacred ceremonial places. The second part of this book uses primary source materials like deeds, town records, court cases and genealogy to reconstruct the history of the Pattee family who owned the hill where the site is found from 1739 through 1863. The Pattees started out in the 1700s as a prosperous family with a house in North Salem village and a 248 acre farm. By the 1820s, the third generation was reduced to owning 15 acres of the original farm and living in a small house built on top of the ruins of the site. Despite his many financial misfortunes, Jonathan Pattee (third generation) managed to hold on to and protect the site.
Author : Robert Angus Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590920943
Author : Bridget Cherry,Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0300095961
Exeter Cathedral is but the crowning glory of Devon's wealth of medieval churches, replete with sumptuous fittings and monuments. The county's peak of prosperity from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth-century is reflected too in its castles, its secluded manor houses, and its scores of sturdily built farmhouses. The delights of Devon's well loved seaside and country towns are explored from the distinctive merchants' houses of Totnes and Topsham to the elegant Regency crescents of Teignmouth and Sidmouth. The picture is completed by accounts of the creation of the docks at Plymouth, industrial relics, and the substantial but little known store of Devon's Victorian churches.
Author : Andy O`Halpin,Conor Newman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0192880578
Ireland is a country rich in archaeological sites. Ireland: An Oxford Archaeological Guide provides the ultimate handbook to this fascinating heritage. Covering the entire island of Ireland, from Antrim to Wexford, Dublin to Sligo, the book contains over 250 plans and illustrations of Ireland's major archaeological treasures and covers sites dating from the time of the first settlers in prehistoric times right up to the seventeenth century. The book opens with a usefulintroduction to the history of Ireland, setting the archaeological material in its wider historical context, and then takes the reader on an unparalleled journey through the major sites and places of interest. Each chapter focuses on a particular geographical region and is introduced by a useful survey of thehistory and geography of the region in question. This is followed by detailed descriptions of the major archaeological sites within each region, arranged alphabetically and including travel directions, historical overview of the site, and details of the site's major features and the latest available archaeological evidence. As the most comprehensive and detailed compact guide to the archaeological sites of Ireland, this new volume will prove invaluable to archaeologists, students of Irishhistory, and tourists alike.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11468471
Author : Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Scotland
ISBN : ONB:+Z319118402
Includes List of members.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UOM:39015073196688