Scotland in Pagan Times: The Iron Age""Scotland In Pagan Times: The Iron Age"" is a historical book written by Joseph Anderson and published in 1883. The book provides a detailed account of the Iron Age in Scotland, a period that spanned from around 800 BC to the arrival of the Romans in AD 43. Anderson draws on archaeological evidence, including artifacts and structures, to paint a picture of what life was like for the people of Scotland during this time. He describes the various tribes that inhabited the region, their social structures, and their religious beliefs and practices. The book also delves into the economy and technology of the Iron Age, including agriculture, metalworking, and trade. Anderson discusses the impact of the Roman invasion on the region and how it changed the course of Scottish history. Overall, ""Scotland In Pagan Times: The Iron Age"" is a comprehensive and informative resource for anyone interested in the history of Scotland or the Iron Age in general.The Rhind Lectures In Archaeology For 1881.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work. |
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Page 107 - ... 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, forged out of the same metal.
Page 128 - ... whose beauty is revealed in shadow more than in form — you have a peculiar characteristic, a form of beauty which belongs to no nation but our own, and to no portion of our nation but the Celtic portion.
Page 239 - The nature and use of these long-handled combs formed the subject of two papers in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol.
Page 8 - A truly valuable contribution to the archaeology of Scotland."— Guardian. " We must not forget to thank the author for the great amount of information he has put together, and for the labour he has bestowed on a work which can never be remunerative."— Saturday Review.
Page 30 - As the sword is the most characteristic object among the grave-goods of the man, the brooch is also the most characteristic object among the grave-goods of the woman. The brooch, which is constantly found in these interments in Norway, is a most peculiar ornament. It is always of brass, massive, oval, and bowl-shaped in form, and is distinguished from all other brooches that are known, not only of this, but of every other area and every other time, by the fact that it is an article of personal adornment,...
Page 36 - Tiree it is stated that, in digging at Cornaigbeg, there were found at different times human skeletons, and nigh them skeletons of horses.
Page 1 - Sheriffmuir (13th November 1715), of sad memory, on Struan consulting the stone as to the fate of the morrow, the large internal flaw was first observed. The Stuarts were lost — and Clan Donnachaidh has been declining in influence ever since. "The virtues of the Clach-na-Bratach are not altogether of a martial nature, for it cures all manner of diseases in cattle and horses, and formerly in human beings also, if they drink the water in which this charmed stone has been thrice dipped by the hands...