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Author Carver, M. O. H.

Title Portmahomack : monastery of the Picts / Martin Carver.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index.
Contents Exploring -- Welcome to Portmahomack -- Designing the expedition -- What we found -- Age of fame -- The monks arrive -- Carvers and thinkers -- Architects and artisans -- Serving new masters -- Legacy -- Aftermath : St Colman's church -- Ritual landscape, with portage -- A holy place in history.
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Summary During the 19th and 20th centuries a trail of chance finds on the outskirts of Portmahomack led to the first exposure in 1996 of a Pictish settlement in northern Scotland. The area became the subject of one of the largest research excavations ever to have taken place on the Scottish mainland. This book describes the discovery and excavation of an early monastery. Dating from the 6th to the 9th century AD Portmahomack is one of the earliest Christian sites to be revealed in Britain and the first in the land of the Picts. The monastery was destroyed between 780 and 830 AD and was then lost to history before being unearthed by one of the largest archaeological research projects ever seen in Scotland. Key Features Highly illustrated The first published account of arguably the most important archaeological discovery in Scotland in the last 30 years Sheds considerable light on the Picts and the early history of Scotland Presents new ideas about the role of spirituality in early Europe
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Subject Monasteries -- Scotland -- Portmahomack.
Monasteries.
Scotland -- Portmahomack.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Scotland -- Portmahomack.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Picts -- Religion.
Picts.
Religion.
Portmahomack (Scotland) -- Church history.
Portmahomack (Scotland) -- Antiquities, Celtic.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
Other Form: Print version: Carver, M.O.H. Portmahomack. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008425807 (OCoLC)214307531
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