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1 online resource : color illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contributors; Introduction: 'If I can put it like that ... '; Alison Sheridan and Fraser Hunter; Section 1; Presenting the past; Museums and their collections; Mark Jones; Presenting someone else's past: the Caithness Broch Centre; Andrew Heald; Reading Govan Old: interpretative challenges and aspirations; Stephen T Driscoll; Section 2; Ancient lives and multiple lives; Robert Innes Shearer: a lost antiquary from Caithness; Stratford Halliday; 'Thanks to you the best has been made of a bad job': Vere Gordon Childe and the Bronze Age cairn at Ri Cruin, Kilmartin, Argyll & Bute; Alan Saville. |
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Evidence and artefact: utility for protohistory and archaeology in Thomas the Rhymer legendsHugh Cheape; Expiscation! Disentangling the later biography of the St Andrews Sarcophagus; Sally M Foster; Section 3; Pieces of the past; Scottish Neolithic pottery in 2016: the big picture and some details of the narrative; Alison Sheridan; The earlier prehistoric collections from the Culbin Sands, northern Scotland: the construction of a narrative; Richard Bradley, Aaron Watson and Ronnie Scott; The provision of amulets and heirlooms in Early Bronze Age children's burials in Scotland; Dawn McLaren. |
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On the edge: Roman law on the frontierDavid J Breeze; The Colour Purple: lithomarge artefacts in northern Britain; Martin Goldberg; 'Coal money' from Portpatrick (south-west Scotland): reconstructing an Early Medieval craft centre from antiquarian finds; Fraser Hunter; Silver handpins from the West Country to Scotland: perplexing portable antiquities; Susan Youngs; Gleaming eyes and the elaboration of Anglo-Saxon sculpture; Alice Blackwell; Combs and comb production in the Western Isles during the Norse period; Niall Sharples and Ian Dennis. |
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Playing the dark side: a look at some chess and other playing pieces of jet and jet-like materials from BritainMark A Hall; Blank Page; Blank Page. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Clarke, David V.
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Scotland -- Antiquities.
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Scotland. |
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Antiquities. |
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Scotland -- History.
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Hunter, Fraser (Museum curator), editor.
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Sheridan, Alison, editor.
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Clarke, D. V., honoree.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hunter, Fraser. Ancient lives. Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2016 9088903751 (OCoLC)957536612 |
| ISBN |
9789088903762 (electronic book) |
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908890376X (electronic book) |
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9088903751 |
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9789088903755 |
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