Portmahomack: monastery of the Picts
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1. Verfasser: Carver, M. O. H. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press c2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-234) and index
Exploring -- Welcome to Portmahomack -- Designing the expedition -- What we found -- Age of fame -- The monks arrive -- Carvers and thinkers -- Architects and artisans -- Serving new masters -- Legacy -- Aftermath : St Colman's church -- Ritual landscape, with portage -- A holy place in history
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 book describes the discovery and excavation of an early monastery. Dating from the 6th to the 9th century AD Portmahomack is one of the earliest Christian sites to be revealed in Britain and the first in the land of the Picts. The excavations turned up 200 pieces of sculpture, debris from the making
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 240 p., [8] p. of plates)
ISBN:0748630465
9780748630462

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