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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Edinburgh University Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.