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W. Douglas Simpson.
The Ancient Stones of Scotland; second edition.
Published London: Robert Hale, 1977 reprint (previously issued 1968; 1st ed. was 1965).
SBN 709103417.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Lowe & Brydone, Thetford.
Size: 141x221x30mm.
Page count: 256pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: not too heavily worn, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 550g.

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Contents: The Scottish stage & its European background; Primitive food gatherers; Homes & tombs of stone age man; Bronze age & its monuments; The coming of iron; Brochs & their builders; Early Christian monuments; Norsemen — homesteads & graves; Anglo-Norman penetration — castles, churches & burghes; Age of abbeys & cathedrals — The monasteries — Cathedrals & parish churches; The castle in the high Middle Ages; National style in castle & church building; The tower-houses; Crowning glory of castellar construction; West Highland cross & grave slabs; "The end of ane auld sang".
Appendix: Developments since the 1st edition

Illustrations: 5 text figures, 12 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: 24

Notes: none
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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