The Birsay Bay Project

Author : Christopher D. Morris
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 1229 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789256086

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The Birsay Bay Project by Christopher D. Morris Pdf

The Brough of Birsay was the power-center of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotland’s key monuments and visitor attractions on the islands. This publication is the culmination of 60 years of investigations that took place on the site between 1954 and 2014. This new volume incorporates comprehensive accounts of work undertaken by Dr Ralegh Radford and Mr Stewart Cruden between 1954 and 1964, excavations by the Viking and Early Settlement Research Project under the direction of the author on site between 1974 and 1981, a rescue excavation in 1993, a geophysical survey in 2007 and archival research up to 2014. Specialist artefactual and palaeobiological studies of metallurgical material, ogham inscriptions and a gilt-bronze mount of Insular origin are included, together with re-analysis of the radiocarbon dates from all sites in Birsay Bay, and a re-assessment of the architecture and dating of the church and related buildings on the Brough itself. The final two chapters put the Brough, as both a Pictish power-center and the hub of the Viking earldom, in the overall context of Birsay Bay and Viking and late Norse Orkney, and the wider world between the Pictish and late Norse/Medieval periods. As well as being the author’s third and final volume reporting on work for the Birsay Bay Project, this volume completes a trilogy of studies of the Brough itself, alongside Mrs Cecil Curle’s and Prof John Hunter’s earlier monographs.

Author : Christopher D. Morris
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789256109

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The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3 by Christopher D. Morris Pdf

The Brough of Birsay was the power-center of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotland’s key monuments and visitor attractions on the islands. This publication is the culmination of 60 years of investigations that took place on the site between 1954 and 2014. This new volume incorporates comprehensive accounts of work undertaken by Dr Ralegh Radford and Mr Stewart Cruden between 1954 and 1964, excavations by the Viking and Early Settlement Research Project under the direction of the author on site between 1974 and 1981, a rescue excavation in 1993, a geophysical survey in 2007 and archival research up to 2014. Specialist artefactual and palaeobiological studies of metallurgical material, ogham inscriptions and a gilt-bronze mount of Insular origin are included, together with re-analysis of the radiocarbon dates from all sites in Birsay Bay, and a re-assessment of the architecture and dating of the church and related buildings on the Brough itself. The final two chapters put the Brough, as both a Pictish power-center and the hub of the Viking earldom, in the overall context of Birsay Bay and Viking and late Norse Orkney, and the wider world between the Pictish and late Norse/Medieval periods. As well as being the author’s third and final volume reporting on work for the Birsay Bay Project, this volume completes a trilogy of studies of the Brough itself, alongside Mrs Cecil Curle’s and Prof John Hunter’s earlier monographs.

Author : Christopher D. Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Birsay Bay (Orkney)
ISBN : 0905096088

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The Birsay Bay Project by Christopher D. Morris Pdf

Author : Christopher D. Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1070900043

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˜Theœ Birsay Bay Project by Christopher D. Morris Pdf

Author : Christopher D. Morris
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1789256070

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The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3 by Christopher D. Morris Pdf

This is a major multi-disciplinary report on the excavation and survey of Viking and early medieval sites on the Brough of Birsay, Orkney.

Author : Beverley Ballin Smith,Simon Taylor,Gareth Williams
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004158931

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West Over Sea by Beverley Ballin Smith,Simon Taylor,Gareth Williams Pdf

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 : Christopher D. Morris,Colleen E. Batey,Norman Emery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Birsay (Orkney, Scotland)
ISBN : 0905096118

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The Birsay Bay Project: Sites in Birsay Village and on the Brough of Birsay, Orkney by Christopher D. Morris,Colleen E. Batey,Norman Emery Pdf

Author : Christopher D. Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Brough of Birsay (Scotland)
ISBN : 0905096088

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The Birsay Bay Project: Coastal sites beside the Brough Road, Birsay, Orkney, excavations 1976-1982 by Christopher D. Morris Pdf

Author : Dolly Jørgensen,Sverker Sörlin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780774825740

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Northscapes by Dolly Jørgensen,Sverker Sörlin Pdf

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 : Shannon Lewis-Simpson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047424048

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Youth and Age in the Medieval North by Shannon Lewis-Simpson Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume explores social, cultural and biological definitions of youth and age specific to the medieval north, and changing mentalities towards youth and age as a result of political, cultural, and religious transformations in the north.

Author : James H. Barrett,Sarah Jane Gibbon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317247975

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Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World by James H. Barrett,Sarah Jane Gibbon Pdf

This book is a study of communities that drew their identity and livelihood from their relationships with water during a pivotal time in the creation of the social, economic and political landscapes of northern Europe. It focuses on the Baltic, North and Irish Seas in the Viking Age (ad 1050–1200), with a few later examples (such as the Scottish Lordship of the Isles) included to help illuminate less well-documented earlier centuries. Individual chapters introduce maritime worlds ranging from the Isle of Man to Gotland — while also touching on the relationships between estate centres, towns, landing places and the sea in the more terrestrially oriented societies that surrounded northern Europe’s main spheres of maritime interaction. It is predominately an archaeological project, but draws no arbitrary lines between the fields of historical archaeology, history and literature. The volume explores the complex relationships between long-range interconnections and distinctive regional identities that are characteristic of maritime societies, seeking to understand communities that were brought into being by their relationships with the sea and who set waves in motion that altered distant shores.

Author : Pamela Crabtree
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135582975

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Medieval Archaeology by Pamela Crabtree Pdf

This is the first reference work to cover the archaeology of medieval Europe. No other reference can claim such comprehensive coverage--from Ireland to Russia and from Scandinavia to Italy, the archaeology of the entirety of medieval Europe is discussed.

Author : Pam J. Crabtree
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351677066

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Archaeology (2001) by Pam J. Crabtree Pdf

First published in 2001, this is the first reference work to cover the archaeology of medieval Europe. No other reference can claim such comprehensive coverage -- from Ireland to Russia and from Scandinavia to Italy, the archaeology of the entirety of medieval Europe is discussed. With coverage ranging from the fall of the western Roman empire in the 5th century CE through the end of the high Middle Ages in 1500 CE, Medieval Archaeology: An Encyclopedia answers the needs of medieval scholars from a variety of backgrounds, including archaeologists, historians and classicists. Featuring over 150 entries by an international team of leading archaeologists, this unique reference is soundly based on the most important developments and scholarship in this rapidly growing field.

Author : Anne Pedersen,Søren M. Sindbæk
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9788771849363

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Viking encounters by Anne Pedersen,Søren M. Sindbæk Pdf

The Viking Congresses bring together scholars of archaeology, philology, history, toponymy, numismatics and a number of other disciplines to discuss the Viking Age from a variety of viewpoints. This volume contains 44 peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the 18th Viking Congress held in Denmark in August 2017. The contributors take up the interdisciplinary challenge, and the papers cover a wide range of subjects, rooted in the past, but also connecting to the present.

Author : Dennis W. Harding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317296492

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The Iron Age in Northern Britain by Dennis W. Harding Pdf

The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the archaeological evidence for earlier Iron Age communities from the southern Pennines to the Northern and Western Isles and the impact of Roman expansion on local populations, through to the emergence of historically-recorded communities in the post-Roman period. The text has been comprehensively revised and expanded to include new discoveries and to take account of advanced techniques, with many new and updated illustrations. The volume presents a comprehensive picture of the ‘long Iron Age’, allowing readers to appreciate how perceptions of Iron Age societies have changed significantly in recent years. New material in this second edition also addresses the key issues of social reconstruction, gender, and identity, as well as assessing the impact of developer-funded archaeology on the discipline. Drawing on recent excavation and research and interpreting evidence from key studies across Scotland and northern England, The Iron Age in Northern Britain continues to be an accessible and authoritative study of later prehistory in the region.