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1 online resource (vi, 320 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
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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. |
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Print version record. |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2014. MiAaHDL |
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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 |
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Neolithic period -- Scotland -- Dumfriesshire.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Scotland -- Dumfriesshire.
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Dumfriesshire (Scotland) -- Antiquities.
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Social sciences.
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Sciences sociales.
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social sciences.
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Social Science / Archaeology.
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Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Neolithic period
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Scotland -- Dumfriesshire
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Ausgrabung
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Bronzezeit
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Funde
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Neolithikum
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County Dumfries
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Arkeologi -- Skottland.
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Skottland -- fornlämningar.
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Dumfries (County)
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1994-1998.
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Inventar.
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| Added Author |
Thomas, Julian, 1959-
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Leivers, Matt.
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Roberts, Julia.
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Peterson, Rick.
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Ashmore, P. J.
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| In: |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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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.) |
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1789258855 (electronic bk.) |
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9781842172476 |
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1842172476 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000072106793 |
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AU@ 000071581026 |
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