LEADER 03811nam 22006852 450 001 9910453958503321 005 20151002020704.0 010 $a0-7486-7070-X 010 $a1-281-78573-3 010 $a9786611785734 010 $a0-7486-3046-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000542123 035 $a(EBL)364835 035 $a(OCoLC)476197871 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000224643 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12059427 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224643 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10210303 035 $a(PQKB)11582059 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780748630462 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000092683 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1962069 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC364835 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1962069 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10435229 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL178573 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL364835 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000542123 100 $a20130327d2008|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPortmahomack $emonastery of the Picts /$fMartin Carver$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-7486-2442-2 311 $a0-7486-2441-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aExploring -- Welcome to Portmahomack -- Designing the expedition -- What we found -- Age of fame -- The monks arrive -- Carvers and thinkers -- Architects and artisans -- Serving new masters -- Legacy -- Aftermath : St Colman's church -- Ritual landscape, with portage -- A holy place in history. 330 $aA trail of chance finds on the outskirts of Portmahomack during the 19th and 20th centuries culminated in 1996 in the first exposure of a Pictish settlement in northern Scotland. The area soon became the subject of one of the largest research excavations ever to have taken place on the Scottish mainland. Discover the world of the Picts with this unique account of the discovery and excavation of an early monastery. Dating from the 6th to the 9th century AD, Portmahomack is one of the earliest Christian sites to be revealed in Britain and the first in the land of the Picts. The monastery was destroyed between 780 and 830 AD and was then lost to history before being unearthed by Martin Carver and his colleagues. In this highly illustrated book, Martin Carver describes the discovery of the site and the design and execution of the research programme, then traces the events that occurred from the mid-6th century to the 11th century when the parish church was founded on the former monastic site. The book ends with the subsequent history of the church of St Colman and a study of the Tarbat peninsula. The author's conclusions advance the theory that this was a prehistoric place before the monks arrived, and that they marked out the boundaries of their estate in the late 8th century with the lives of local saints carved on some of the greatest stone sculptures of the age. 606 $aMonasteries$zScotland$zPortmahomack 606 $aExcavations (Archaeology)$zScotland$zPortmahomack 606 $aPicts$xReligion 607 $aPortmahomack (Scotland)$xChurch history 607 $aPortmahomack (Scotland)$xAntiquities, Celtic 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMonasteries 615 0$aExcavations (Archaeology) 615 0$aPicts$xReligion. 676 $a941.15601 700 $aCarver$b M. O. H.$0459215 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453958503321 996 $aPortmahomack$92455124 997 $aUNINA