Audrey S Henshall, J N Graham Ritchie

The Chambered Cairns of the Central Highlands

An Inventory of the Structures and Their Contents

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book brings together the evidence from all the surviving monuments in Ross and Cromarty and Invernessshire. The chapters include plans and descriptions. A final chapter draws together all the information gathered over two decades of field survey to provide an inventory that should make this book an important landmark in the study of chambered cairns in both Scotland and Europe.

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Chambered cairns are the earliest architectural achievement of the people of Scotland. In this comprehensive and full illustrated volume the burial monuments of the early inhabitants are examined and the surviving remains described. This volume focuses on the monuments in Ross and Cromarty and Inverness-shire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 189mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9780748606436
• ISBN-10: 0748606432
• Artikelnr.: 21275595

Autorenporträt

Audrey Henshall has studied chambered cairns and their contents throughout her professional life with the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Her early volumes in 1963 and 1972 on the Chambered Tombs of Scotland formed the foundation for four new volumes on the monuments of the northern counties, of which this is the last. The Chambered Cairns of Sutherland, also with Graham Ritchie, was published in 1995. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.