Beyond the Highland Line: Highland History and CultureConstable, 1991 - 236 pagini An historical and cultural guide to the Scottish Highlands, embracing the early Pictish inhabitants up to the present day. The author examines such topics as the history of the clans, depopulation and emigration, the tourist trade, and highland ecology. |
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... walls , so that the whole place must have been pervaded by a continuous stench . Each house was a one - roomed dwelling with rounded corners and corbelled walls which curved inwards to support the roof , which was probably of turf ...
... walls , so that the whole place must have been pervaded by a continuous stench . Each house was a one - roomed dwelling with rounded corners and corbelled walls which curved inwards to support the roof , which was probably of turf ...
Pagina 26
... walls filled in with rubble and tied with transverse timbers to stabilize the filling and to prevent pressure from causing the supporting walls to bulge . The curious feature shared by all these forts so far discovered is that the ...
... walls filled in with rubble and tied with transverse timbers to stabilize the filling and to prevent pressure from causing the supporting walls to bulge . The curious feature shared by all these forts so far discovered is that the ...
Pagina 27
... walls are far stronger than the original drystone walls would have been , for they have proved almost indestructible . A very different type of defensible place , constructed all over Scotland , was the crannog , a lake - dwelling built ...
... walls are far stronger than the original drystone walls would have been , for they have proved almost indestructible . A very different type of defensible place , constructed all over Scotland , was the crannog , a lake - dwelling built ...
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Illustrations | 9 |
Picts and Scots | 35 |
Gael Norse and Norman | 52 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
Alasdair Alasdair MacColla Alexander ancient Angus Óg Argyll army Balliol battle became best-dressed Highlander Bishop Caledonians Campbell cattle Celtic Celts chiefs Christian Church Clan Donald clansmen crofters crown Dalriada David defeated descendants drovers Duke Earl earldom Edinburgh eighteenth century England English feudal followed Gaelic Gaels Glen Gordon Gordon Donaldson Grant and Cheape Hebrides Highland dress Highland Line Highland regiments Highlands and Islands History I.F. Grant Ibid Inverness Iona Ireland Irish Islay Jacobite Jacobite Rising James VI James VII John kilt kindred King of Scots kingdom Kintyre land later Loch Lord Lordship Lowland MacDonald MacGregor MacKenzies MacPherson Malcolm Malcolm MacHeth Mór Moray nineteenth century Norse Orkney Ossian Pictish Picts plaid poem possession Prince Charles Edward Queen Roman Ross royal Scotland Scottish sheep Skye society Somerled Statutes of Iona Stewart stone Stuart survived Sutherland symbols tartan tenants tradition victory warriors Western Isles