Download or read book A Guide to Prehistoric and Viking Shetland written by Noel Fojut and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide designed to take the interested amateur around Shetland on an archaeological journey of over 5000 years. This revised edition contains a chronological description and gazetteer of the many sites, from prehistoric to Norse, together with suggested area car tours.
Download or read book Prehistoric and Viking Shetland written by Noel Fojut and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work traces the earliest evidence of life in prehistoric communities to the norse settlement. What is Shetland's past and where can it be seen? In Prehistoric and Viking Shetland, Dr Noel Fojut takes the interested amateur on an archaeological journey of over five thousand years tracing the earliest evidence of life in prehistoric communities in Shetland to the Norse settlement. This is the fourth edition of this popular guide which was first published in 1981. It gives a chronological description, a gazetteer of many sites and a series of area car tours giving visitors and enthusiastic explorers a good idea of the range of sites to be found.
Download or read book A Guide to Prehistoric Shetland written by Noel Fojut and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Shetland written by Val Turner and published by Batsford. This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first overview of current archeological knowledge of ancient Shetland, from Mesolithic times to the Viking/Norse period: a period of 8,000 years. It investigates death and ritual in the Neolithic era; domestic life in the Bronze Age; unsettled times in the Iron Age; and the lifestyles of both the Picts and Christians.
Download or read book The North Sea Earls written by Ian Morrison and published by G. T. Foulis & Company Limited. This book was released on 1973 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Biggings Papa Stour Shetland written by Barbara E. Crawford and published by Society Antiquaries Scotland. This book was released on 1999 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of a royal Norwegian farm on the Shetland island of Papa Stour was inspired by a document of 1299 recording the meeting between a Norwegian royal official and a woman who had accused him of treachery to his royal master.
Download or read book Prehistoric Houses at Sumburgh in Shetland written by Jane Downes (Ph. D.) and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavations at Sumburgh Airport in the 1960s and 70s discovered stone-built houses of the later Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. This report describes the results of the excavations (stone walls, paved areas, hearths, cubicles) and of the analysis of the stratigraphy and the position of the artifacts. It shows how one house was added to the other, and how both were then substantially modified. Comparison with other sites shows that the two-house unit was a feature of the later Bronze Age in Shetland in contrast to earlier Bronze Age oval houses and later Iron Age circular houses divided by radial piers, and that longevity of occupation was usual with the three house forms succeeding each other as here at Sumburgh.
Download or read book Vikings in Scotland written by James Graham-Campbell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1.Scotland Before the Vikings --2.Norwegian Background --3.Sources for Scandinavian Scotland --4.Regional Survey Part I: Northern Scotland --5.Regional Survey Part II: the West Highlands and Islands --6.Regional Survey Part III: South-West, Central, Eastern and Southern Scotland --7.Pagan Norse Graves Part I: Case Studies --8.Pagan Norse Graves Part II: Interpretation --9.Viking Period Settlements --10.Late Norse Settlements --11.Norse Economy --12.Silver and Gold --13.Earls and Bishops.
Download or read book Location Form and Function in Shetland s Prehistoric Field Systems written by Val Turner and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shetland boasts exceptionally well-preserved, but largely overlooked, field systems spanning a period of approximately 4000 years (Neolithic/Bronze Age - Viking/Norse). These have the potential to vastly increase our understanding of past agricultural practices and life styles. This study uses topographical survey, Shape Analysis, GIS, soil survey and micromorphology to answer questions relating to their location, form and function/management, pioneering the use of new tools and testing current models. An holistic landscape approach to the field systems is developed and tested against a multi-period site. Previously unknown types and periods of field systems are identified through survey and shape analysis, tools demonstrated to be valuable in refining the emerging model of field classification. GIS has illuminated pre-, during and post- construction factors influencing boundary form. New insights into location arise from the survey and GIS. Soils work has demonstrated that existing models of soil management over-simplify a complex situation, that thin acidic soils retain cultural information and that accretion was important to the sustainability of these peaty soils. While soils were sustainable over extended periods, the cultural inheritance of managed land appears to be limited. This thesis therefore presents the most holistic and comprehensive understanding of Shetland field systems which has so far been attempted.
Download or read book The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland 1904 written by Gilbert Goudie and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Viking encounters written by Anne Pedersen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Ancient Monuments of Shetland written by Noel Fojut and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 1993 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to Shetland's colorful history, described through its surviving monuments. From Neolithic settlements to Medieval castles plus a look at the eighteenth-century artillery defenses of Fort Charlotte. The book places each site in its historical context and guides the visitor around the surviving remains.
Download or read book The Prehistoric Peoples of Scotland written by Stuart Piggott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on lectures given at the Conference of the British Summer School of Archaeology at Edinburgh in 1954, this book, published in 1962, surveys the general field of pre-historic Scotland, five archaeologists each contributing chapters discussing the main aspects and problems that have presented themselves in specialised research areas. From the first peopling of the area by human communities with hunting and food-gathering economies, to field antiquities and the introduction of copper and bronze metallurgy and on to the first settlement by Celtic speakers and the links to the first historically documented Scotland. Contributors: R.J.C. Atkinson, G.E. Daniel, T.G.E. Powell and C.A.R. Radford.
Download or read book Ancient Shetland written by Val Turner and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland written by Gilbert Goudie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1904 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shaping of Shetland written by Val Turner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the unique archaeological make-up of the Shetland Islands, from its Norse roots to its annexation by Scotland in 1472. This title focuses on an archaeology rich with an agricultural heritage.
Download or read book Pictish and Viking age Carvings from Shetland written by Ian Gordon Scott and published by Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of the remaining carvings from Shetland from Pictish and Viking times. The carvings include Pictish symbol stones, grave-markers, elaborate cross-slabs, shrine parts and a series of decorated stone discs.
