Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron AgeAnderson, Joseph
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Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron Age
Anderson, Joseph
Scotland -- Antiquities
Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, bronze armlets found near, 148.
Aby, Sodermanland, Sweden, Runic monument at, 99, 101.
Airlie, Forfarshire, Earth-houses at, 292.
Analysis of oval bowl-shaped brooches, 41.
—— of bronze armlets, 148, 161.
Animal Remains found in Brochs, 215, 221, 222, 231, 237, 238.
Armlets of bronze, massive, penannular, decorated in relief and with
enamels, 141-155.
—— spiral and serpent-formed, 156-161.
—— found in Earth-houses, 297.
—— found in Broch of Yarhouse, 231.
Arm-rings of silver, 86, 87, 88, 109.
Arms buried with Christian dead, 5, 6.
Architecture of the Brochs of Scotland, 174-208.
Art, Celtic, of the Pagan Period, 112.
Auchenbadie, Banffshire, bronze armlets found at, 144.
Auchindoir, Aberdeenshire, Earth-houses at, 292.
Aucorn, Caithness, vessels of sandstone found at, 75.
Axe-head, inlaid with silver, from Mammen How, 97.
Axes found in Viking graves, 21.
Ayrshire, the crannogs of, 269.
Backies, Sutherlandshire, Broch of, 202.
Balearic Islands, the Talayots of, 206.
Ball of bronze ornamented with spiral patterns, 161, 162.
Balls of stone ornamented with spiral and other patterns, 162–170.
Ballinaby, Islay, Viking graves at, 14, 38.
Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbright, bronze mirror and other articles found at,
126.
Barra, grave mound in, 42.
Bayeux Tapestry, maces figured in the, 170.
Bead of Vitreous Paste found in Broch of Bowermadden, 233.
Beads of variegated glass found in Viking graves, 27.
Ben Ledi, Hill-Fort on a spur of, 275.
Birdlip, near Gloucester, bronze mirror found in a grave at, 132.
Birrenswark, Annandale, enamelled bridle-bit found at, 123.
Bishops buried with their vestments, 5.
Bodinar, Cornwall, hut structures at, 207.
Borrowston, Shapinsay, Orkney, Broch of, 197.
Bowermadden, Broch of, 232.
Braavalla Heath, battle of, 60.
Brass, hammer-marked plates of, found in Broch of Carn-liath, 222.
Brochs, Architecture of the, 174–208.
—— geographical distribution of the, 192.
Bronze, vessels of, from Dowalton Loch, 266, 268.
Brooch of Brass, circular, found at Yarhouse, 225.
Brooches, oval, bowl-shaped, found in Viking graves, 24, 38, 39, 40,
44, 45,57.
—— analysis of, 41.
—— geographical distribution of, 34.
—— silver, penannular, with knobs like thistle-heads, 54, 79, 81, 93,
101, 102.
Broomhouse, Berwickshire, Earth-house at, 282.
Brounaben, Caithness, Broch of, 200.
Buchaam, Strathdon, Earth-house at, 285.
Bunrannoch, Perthshire, bronze armlets found at, 149, 153.
Burghead, silver mounting of a drinking-horn found at, 46.
Burghead, fort built with logs and stones at, 279.
Burial, survival of Pagan customs in Christian, 3.
—— clothed and with grave-goods, 4, 5, 6, 7.
—— of laymen in clerical habits, 6.
Burials in the mounds covering the ruins of Brochs, 219, 225.
—— with urns of steatite in Orkney and Shetland, 66–76.
—— in Norway, 77.
Burraness, island of Yell, Shetland, Broch at, 184.
—— Unst, Shetland, Broch of, 195.
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