Scotland in Pagan Times, Volume 1Douglas, 1883 - Scotland |
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20 feet Aberdeenshire archæological Arthur Mitchell Ballinaby Banffshire bone Broch of Burrian Broch of Yarhouse Bronze Armlet found bulbous burial Caithness Celtic Celtic art chambers character characteristic Christian circular cist combs construction Crannog curves DAVID DOUGLAS decoration described discs doorway Earth-house EDINBURGH Eigg enamels enclosed entrance excavated feet high feet wide flat floor found at Skaill fragments galleries George Petrie grave Grave-mound Ground Plan height hoard implements inches inches diameter inches high inches in diameter inches in length inches wide interments iron Iron Age island Islay Levenwick Loch metal mound Norway Orkney ornamented oval bowl-shaped brooches Pagan patterns peculiar Peeblesshire penannular Pierowall placed plate portion relics remains ring Roman roof round Scandinavian Scotland Shetland shield side silver similar Skaill slabs spaces spiral stair steatite Stone Ball found structure surface sword terminal thin tower vessel Viking vitrified wall width zoomorphic
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Page 14 - The corpse of a murdered person, however, is placed with the head to the east and the feet to the west.
Page 204 - ... space below, and rising to the number of twenty or more, immediately over the door which gives access to the galleries. In short, the concentration of effort towards the two main objects of space for shelter and complete security was never more strikingly exhibited, and no more admirable adaptation of materials so simple and common as undressed and uncemented stone, for this double purpose, has ever been discovered or suggested.
Page 152 - ... are found in association with objects that are not Roman in form and style of decoration, their preFig. 129. — Saucepan of Bronze found with the Bronze Armlet, etc., at Stanhope, Peeblesshire. sence is an indication that the period of the deposit cannot be widely distant from the time of the Roman occupation. The conclusion drawn from the association of this saucepan with these objects of native workmanship decorated in this purely indigenous style of art, is plainly that this native style...
Page 191 - Opening from the central area are the entrances to three chambers in the thickness of the wall. They are nearly of a size, 8 feet long, 4 feet wide, and a little over 6 feet high. One still retains its roof, rudely vaulted with overlapping masonry. In this case also the group of features characteristic of the structure and its arrangements is such as can be found only in the typical structure of the Broch. These three examples are all that are known on the mainland of Scotland south of the Caledonian...
Page 23 - Social Life in Former Days; Chiefly in the Province of Moray. Illustrated by letters and family papers. By E. DUNBAR DUNBAR, late Captain 21st Fusiliers. 2 vols. demy 8vo, price 19s.
Page 3 - ... doubt whether the geographical distribution of the Scottish lake dwellings at present known is really connected with that of the ancient Celt, and whether it is not more due to the activity of the Ayrshire and Wigtonshire Archaeological Association, of Mr. Cochran Patrick, MP, and of Dr. Munro himself. Whilst thanking him for what he has already accomplished, we may express a hope that he will continue his researches.
Page 174 - IN this Lecture I have to deal with the products of a school of architecture, Celtic in its character, and absolutely peculiar to the Scottish area. On the small uninhabited island of Mousa, lying off the east coast of the mainland of Shetland, there stands a solitary stone structure, massive in size, peculiar in appearance, and still more peculiar in character. It is a tower of circular form, wide and lofty, but constructed of undressed stones laid upon each other without mortar or other binding...
Page 8 - Present has been rapidly followed by the issue of the book, the title of which stands at the head of this paragraph. It would be difficult, perhaps, to find two books on archaeological subjects, published in England during the past year, which can compete with these in the excellence of their production, and the logical and argumental value of their teaching.
Page 114 - ... armour they use shields as tall as the man, and painted over after a peculiar fashion. Some of these shields have figures of animals in relief of bronze, not merely for ornament, but also for defence, and very well wrought. They wear bronze helmets, having lofty projections rising out of them, and which impart a gigantic appearance to the wearers ; for upon some are fixed pairs of horns united, upon others the heads of birds, or of beasts, 1 Who destroyed their nationality by making them all...
Page 290 - Scot., vol. vt p. 249. called by a Gaelic name which signifies Hiding-beds. The use of such underground places of concealment is referred to in the Saga of Gisli the Soursop, which relates to events occurring between the years 930 and 980, and was written in Iceland about the beginning of the twelfth century. It states that when Gisli was outlawed and every man's hand was against him, he went to Thorgerda in VadiL " She was often wont to harbour outlaws, and she had an underground room. One end of...