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Title Place and memory : excavations at the Pict's Knowe, Holywood and Holm Farm, Dumfries and Galloway, 1994-8 / [edited by] Julian Thomas ; with the editorial assistance of Matt Leivers, Julia Roberts and Rick Peterson ; and contributions by Patrick Ashmore [and others].

Imprint Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co., ©2007.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 320 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-320).
Summary This volume is concerned with the investigation of three complexes of prehistoric ceremonial monuments in the immediate environs of Dumfries in the South-west of Scotland, conducted between 1994 and 1998.
Note Print version record.
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Contents Pt. 1. The Pict's Knowe -- 1. Introduction / Julian Thomas -- 2. The interaction of site and landscape around the Pict's Knowe / Richard Tipping, B. Andrew Haggart and Paula Milburn -- 3. Early historic land uses at the Pict's Knowe : palynological evidence from the west cutting / Paula Milburn and Richard Tipping -- 4. Fieldwork at the Pict's Knowe, 1994-7 / Julian Thomas -- 5. Geophysical survey / Kate Clark -- 6. The waterlogged wood assemblage from the Pict's Knowe / Anne Crone, Rob Sands and Theo Skinner -- 7. Wooden small find 48 : the 'ard' / Grith Lerche -- 8. The 'ard' spike / Rob Sands -- 9. Soil phosphate studies / John Crowther -- 10. Soil thin sections / John Crowther -- 11. Charred plant remains / Penny Johnson -- 12. The Roman shoe sole / Carol van Driel-Murray -- 13. Botanical investigation of the Pict's Knowe leaf sample PK94 FN47 / Susan Ramsay and Jennifer Miller -- 14. Prehistoric ceramics / Rick Peterson and Julia Roberts -- 15. Worked stone artefacts / Graeme Brown, Mike Roy and Diane Dixon -- 16. Iron objects from the Pict's Knowe / Fraser Hunter -- 17. Fired clay, vitrified material and slag from the Pict's Knowe / Andrew Heald and Fraser Hunter -- 18. The Pict's Knowe : discussion / Julian Thomas -- Pt. 2. Holywood and Holm Farm -- 19. Introduction / Julian Thomas -- 20. The cursus monuments of south-west Scotland / Kenneth Brophy -- 21. The Holywood cursus complex, excavations / Julian Thomas -- 22. Holm Farm, excavations / Julian Thomas and Matt Leivers -- 23. Prehistoric ceramics / Rick Peterson and Julia Roberts -- 24. Lithics / Gilbert Marshall -- 25. Carbonised remains from Holywood cursus complex / Ciera Clarke -- 26. Soil phosphate studies at Holywood / John Crowther -- 27. Holywood and Holm : discussion / Julian Thomas -- Pt. 3. Conclusion -- 28. Radiocarbon dates from the Pict's Knowe, Holywood and Holm / Patrick Ashmore -- 29. Conclusion : the Dumfries monuments and the archaeology of place / Julian Thomas -- App. 1. Catalogue of pottery from the Pict's Knowe 1994/1995 excavations / Rick Peterson and Julia Roberts -- App. 2. The Pict's Knowe -- wood measurements / Anne Crone, Rob Sands and Theo Skinner -- App. 2a. The Pict's Knowe -- catalogue of wood finds / Anne Crone, Rob Sands and Theo Skinner -- App. 3. The Pict's Knowe -- soil analyses / John Crowther -- App. 4. The Pict's Knowe -- archaeobotanical data / Penny Johnson -- App. 5. The Pict's Knowe -- plant macrofossils / Paula Milbura and Richard Tipping -- App. 6. The Pict's Knowe -- petrological examination of lithic artefacts / Diane Dixon -- App. 7. The Pict's Knowe -- catalogue of worked stone finds / Graeme Brown and Mike Roy -- App. 8. Holywood pottery catalogue / Kick Peterson and Julia Roberts -- App. 9. Calibrated radiocarbon determinations from Holm, Holywood and the Pict's Knowe / Patrick Ashmore
Subject Neolithic period -- Scotland -- Dumfriesshire.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Scotland -- Dumfriesshire.
Dumfriesshire (Scotland) -- Antiquities.
Social sciences.
Sciences sociales.
social sciences.
Social Science / Archaeology.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Neolithic period
Scotland -- Dumfriesshire
Ausgrabung
Bronzezeit
Funde
Neolithikum
County Dumfries
Arkeologi -- Skottland.
Skottland -- fornlämningar.
Dumfries (County)
Chronological Term Geschichte 1994-1998.
Genre/Form Inventar.
Added Author Thomas, Julian, 1959-
Leivers, Matt.
Roberts, Julia.
Peterson, Rick.
Ashmore, P. J.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: Place and memory. Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co., ©2007 (DLC) 2008411249 (OCoLC)76936333
ISBN 9781789258851 (electronic bk.)
1789258855 (electronic bk.)
9781842172476
1842172476
Standard No. AU@ 000072106793
AU@ 000071581026

 
    
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