Download or read book The Crannog written by Trevor Houghton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crannog - a fortified island palace on a small lake in a remote Welsh mountain kingdom - is all that protects Ruadh and his family from marauding Vikings and power hungry Saxons. In 916, a cataclysmic event sends father, daughter and son in different directions. Their epic journeys see them drawn deep into the political intrigues of their time, and swept up in the volatile movements of trade in human lives and luxuries. Travelling to the darkest regions of human conflict and to the distant margins of early medieval Europe, body and mind are tested as each tries to make a life in a violent and rapidly changing world. Weaving archaeological evidence and historical record into a fast moving fictional tale, Trevor Houghton conjures up the sights, sounds and smells of early medieval life, from the hearths of Brycheiniog to the rapids of the Dnieper River, and the riches of the Byzantine Empire.
Download or read book The Crannog Saga written by Patrik Magnerius and published by Magnerius Konsult AB. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can't change fate - unless your magic is strong... Caught in the netherworld of Hydelach, the small band of heroes struggles to persevere. Dark magic seems to both lead and misleads them until they finally end up in a very unlikely alliance. In the wretched town of Bal Khunda, all hope seems to be quenched since that witch awoke and tricked all the nobles. Or, is it now, in the darkest hour, that hope starts to glimmer? Can it be fate that shapes the events of this epic saga or is it magic? Many questions will be answered in these two chapters filled with sorcery and blood-stained steel. This is the concluding volume four in the first chronicle of The Crannog Saga.
Download or read book A Crannog of the First Millennium AD written by Anne Crone and published by Society Antiquaries Scotland. This book was released on 2005 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early medieval crannog in Loch Glashan was excavated in 1960 by Jack Scott, in advance of dam construction. The crannog produced a rich organic assemblage of wood and leather objects, as well as exotic items such as continental imported pottery and a brooch studded with amber. This title examines all the evidence from the crannog.
Download or read book Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings or Crannogs written by Robert Munro and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Ancient Scottish Lake-Dwellings or Crannogs by Robert Munro
Download or read book Ancient Scottish Lake dwellings Or Crannogs written by Robert Munro and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Llangorse Crannog written by Alan Lane and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crannog on Llangorse Lake near Brecon in mid Wales was discovered in 1867 and first excavated in 1869 by two local antiquaries, Edgar and Henry Dumbleton, who published their findings over the next four years. In 1988 dendrochronological dates from submerged palisade planks established its construction in the ninth century, and a combined off- and on-shore investigation of the site was started as a joint project between Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. The subsequent surveys and excavation (1989-1994, 2004) resulted in the recovery of a remarkable time capsule of life in the late ninth and tenth century, on the only crannog yet identified in Wales. This publication re-examines the early investigations, describes in detail the anatomy of the crannog mound and its construction, and the material culture found. The crannog’s treasures include early medieval secular and religious metalwork, evidence for manufacture, the largest depository of early medieval carpentry in Wales and a remarkable richly embroidered silk and linen textile which is fully analysed and placed in context. The crannog’s place in Welsh history is explored, as a royal llys (‘court’) within the kingdom of Brycheiniog. Historical record indicates the site was destroyed in 916 by Aethelflaed, the Mercian queen, in the course of the Viking wars of the early tenth century. The subsequent significance of the crannog in local traditions and its post-medieval occupation during a riotous dispute in the reign Elizabeth I are also discussed. Two logboats from the vicinity of the crannog are analysed, and a replica described. The cultural affinities of the crannog and its material culture is assessed, as are their relationship to origin myths for the kingdom, and to probable links with early medieval Ireland. The folk tales associated with the lake are explored, in a book that brings together archaeology, history, myths and legends, underwater and terrestrial archaeology.
Download or read book The Crannogs of Scotland written by Nicholas Dixon and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public perception of underwater archaeology is usually related to shipwrecks, and yet there are thousands of submerged settlement sites from all periods. Most of these lie in shallow waters and are therefore readily available to the underwater archaeologist. This book explains the methods of working under water and the exciting discoveries from a number of sites in Scotland. The focus is the excavation of the Early Iron Age crannog in the Highlands of Scotland.
Download or read book The Proceedings and Papers of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland written by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland written by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index of archaeological papers published in 1891, under the direction of the Congress of Archaeological Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries.
Download or read book Alluvial Archaeology in Europe written by Andrew J. Howard and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents and assesses over ten years of research in the field, bringing together expertise and knowledge from the disciplines of archaeology and geomorphology, and highlighting important recent advances, discoveries and new directions. Reflecting the wide scope of current research in this area, the book contains over twenty papers focusing on various aspects of alluvial archaeology from the methodology of dating, prospecting, excavating etc, to previously under-analysed geographical areas such as intertidal wetlands.
Download or read book The Lake Dwellings of Ireland written by W. G. Wood-Martin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective Colonel William Gregory Wood-Martin held in view while presenting this work was to document the extraordinary discoveries made in a department of Archaeology previously almost unnoticed in Ireland, except in the Proceedings, Catalogues, and Journals of various learned communities. It contains accounts from the source, construction, and culture of the ancient Lacustrine habitations of Ireland, as illustrated by their remains and the antiquities found in or around them to the description and geographical distribution of all known Lacustrine locations in Ireland. Though Wood-Martin became a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1883, and both published with and presented to that respective body, his association with the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland dominated his antiquarian career.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy written by Royal Irish Academy and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes also Minutes of [the] Proceedings, and Report of [the] President and Council for the year (beginning 1965/66 called Annual report).
Download or read book Transactions and Journal of Proceedings written by Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rivers in Prehistory written by Andrea Vianello and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity onwards people have opted to live near rivers and major watercourses. This volume explores rivers as facilitators of movement through landscapes, and it investigates the reasons for living near a river, as well as the role of the river in the human landscape.
Download or read book Scotland Archaeology and Early History written by J N Graham Ritchie and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland is unusually rich in field monuments and objects surviving from early times. This comprehensive survey of Scotland's prehistoric and early historic archaeology covers the full chronological range from the earliest inhabitants to the union of the Picts and Scots in AD 843. Fully illustrated throughout, this book will help both students and visitors to monuments to understand the lifestyles of Scotland's early societies.
Download or read book A New History of Ireland Volume I written by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day. Volume I begins by looking at geography and the physical environment. Chapters follow that examine pre-3000, neolithic, bronze-age and iron-age Ireland and Ireland up to 800. Society, laws, church and politics are all analysed separately as are architecture, literature, manuscripts, language, coins and music. The volume is brought up to 1166 with chapters, amongst others, on the Vikings, Ireland and its neighbours, and opposition to the High-Kings. A final chapter moves further on in time, examining Latin learning and literature in Ireland to 1500.
