Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Middle AgesSurvey chapters analyse advances in studies of Pictish culture during the last fifty years. Inter-disciplinary case studies cover archaeology, place-names, history, liturgy, and history within a wider European framework. |
Contents
FT Wainwright and the Problem of the Picts | 3 |
PART ONE NAMES AND TEXTS | 13 |
Thoughts on the Quest for Pictish Origins | 15 |
Approaches to Medieval Texts on the Pictish Past | 45 |
Pictish Placenames Revisited | 67 |
PART TWO STORIES IN STONE | 119 |
The Problems of Pictish Art 19552009 | 121 |
Sculpture and its Uses in and around Forteviot Perthshire from the Ninth Century Onwards | 135 |
Rossie Priory Perthshire and Glamis no 2 | 201 |
The Interpretation of Nonferrous Metalworking in Early Historic Scotland | 221 |
PART THREE LANDSCAPES FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD | 243 |
Persistent Problems and Structural Solutions | 245 |
The Landscape of the Symbol Stones at Rhynie Aberdeenshire | 281 |
The Early Medieval Landscape of Donside Aberdeenshire | 307 |
A Review of Pictish Burial Practices in Tayside and Fife | 335 |
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