TY  - BOOK
AU  - Toolis,Ronan
AU  - Bowles,Christopher R.
TI  - The lost Dark Age kingdom of Rheged: the discovery of a royal stronghold at Trusty's Hill, Galloway 
SN  - 9781785703126
AV  - DA890.G387 
U1  - 941.4/7 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford, Philadelphia
PB  - Oxbow Books
KW  - Fortification
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Gatehouse of Fleet
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Britons
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Social archaeology
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Gatehouse of Fleet (Scotland)
KW  - Dumfries and Galloway (Scotland)
KW  - History
KW  - To 1057
KW  - Écosse
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Jusqu'à 1057
KW  - Dumfries and Galloway
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Fieldwork results -- Dating and phasing -- The artefacts -- Environmental evidence -- The rock carvings -- Discussion -- Conclusions
N2  - "Trusty's Hill is an early medieval fort at Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway. The hillfort comprises a fortified citadel defined by a vitrified rampart around its summit, with a number of enclosures looping out along lower-lying terraces and crags. The approach to its summit is flanked on one side by a circular rock-cut basin and on the other side by Pictish Symbols carved on to the face of a natural outcrop of bedrock. This Pictish inscribed stone is unique in Dumfries and Galloway, and southern Scotland, and has long puzzled scholars as to why the symbols were carved so far from Pictland and even if they are genuine. The Galloway Picts Project, launched in 2012, aimed to recover evidence for the archaeological context of the inscribed stone, but far from validating the existence of Picts in this southerly region of Scotland, the archaeological context instead suggests that the carvings relate to a royal stronghold and place of inauguration for the local Britons of Galloway around AD 600. Examined in the context of contemporary sites across southern Scotland and northern England, the archaeological evidence from Galloway suggests that this region may have been the heart of the lost Dark Age kingdom of Rheged, a kingdom that was in the late sixth century pre-eminent amongst the kingdoms of the north. The new archaeological evidence from Trusty's Hill enhances our perception of power, politics, economy and culture at a time when the foundations for the kingdoms of Scotland, England and Wales were being laid"--Provided by publisher
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