Portmahomack : monastery of the Picts / Martin Carver.

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Portmahomack today is a serene fishing village on the Dornoch Firth, north east Scotland where archaeological excavations have written a new history of the origins of Scotland. This book brings alive the expedition and its discoveries, most famously a monastery of the eighth century in the land of the Picts. Starting from chance finds of a Pictish carved stone in St Colman's churchyard, the archaeologists unearthed four settlements one on top of the other. An elite farm was succeeded by the Pictish monastery, which, following a Viking raid in AD800, became a trading place and then a medieval vi.

List of figures; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Welcome to Portmahomack; 2. Designing the expedition; 3. What we found; 4. An Elite farmstead, sixth to seventh century (Period 1); 5. The Monastery: its rituals and industries, eighth century (Period 2); 6. Serving new masters, ninth to eleventh century (Period 3); 7. Medieval church and village, twelfth to sixteenth century (Period 4); 8. Ritual landscape, with portage: the Tarbat Peninsula in history; 9. Reflections; Bibliography; Index. 0.

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