Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781108082655 |
| ISBN10: | 1108082653 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 426 pages |
| Size: | 216x140 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 411 b/w illus. |
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Scotland in Pagan Times: The Bronze and Stone Ages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 31 July 2020
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Short description:
This highly illustrated 1886 work discusses the Stone and Bronze ages in Scotland, and the archaeological finds associated with them.
Long description:
Joseph Anderson (1832-1916), curator of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, delivered the Rhind lectures of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland from 1879 to 1882 as a sequence on the ancient history of Scotland, and subsequently published them in book form. This highly illustrated 1886 work gives the 1882 lectures on the Stone and Bronze ages, beginning with burials or cremations discovered in Bronze Age cairns and their associated grave-goods, and going on to consider stone circles and standing stones, and the bronze weapons, tools, jewellery (some of it gold) and other artefacts discovered outside the context of burial, including apparent offerings of weapons in peat bogs. The second part describes the chambered Stone Age cairns of the mainland and islands, and the pottery and types of stone weapons and tools associated with the period. Anderson's other Rhind lectures are also reissued in this series.
Table of Contents:
Prefatory note; Part I. The Age of Bronze: 1. Bronze age burials; 2. Circles, and settings of standing stones; 3. Weapons, implements, etc. of the bronze age; Part II. The Age of Stone: 4. Chambered cairns of Argyll, Orkney, etc.; 5. Implements and weapons of the stone age; Index.