Portmahomack : Monastery of the Picts.

During the 19th and 20th centuries a trail of chance finds on the outskirts of Portmahomack led to the first exposure in 1996 of a Pictish settlement in northern Scotland. The area became the subject of one of the largest research excavations ever to have taken place on the Scottish mainland. This b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carver, Martin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Monasteries > Scotland > Portmahomack.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Scotland > Portmahomack.
Picts > Religion.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Écosse > Portmahomack.
Pictes > Religion.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
HISTORY.
Celtic antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Monasteries
Ausgrabung
Portmahomack (Scotland) > Church history.
Portmahomack (Scotland) > Antiquities, Celtic.
Scotland > Portmahomack
Portmahomack
Pikten.
Church history
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • COVER; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part 1 Exploring; 1. Welcome to Portmahomack; 2. Designing the expedition; 3. What we found; Part 2 Age of Fame; 4. The monks arrive; 5. Carvers and thinkers; 6. Architects and artisans; 7. Serving new masters; Part 3 Legacy; 8. Aftermath: St Colman's Church; 9. Ritual landscape, with portage; 10. A holy place in history; Digest of evidence; Bibliography; Index.

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