The Chambered Cairns of the Central Highlands - An Inventory of the Structures and Their Contents

Chambered cairns are the earliest architectural achievement of the people of Scotland. In this comprehensive and full illustrated volume the burial monuments of the early inhabitants are examined and the surviving remains described. This volume focuses on the monuments in Ross and Cromarty and Inverness-shire.

About the author

Audrey Henshall has studied chambered cairns and their contents throughout her professional life with the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Her early volumes in 1963 and 1972 on the Chambered Tombs of Scotland formed the foundation for four new volumes on the monuments of the northern counties, of which this is the last. The Chambered Cairns of Sutherland, also with Graham Ritchie, was published in 1995. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Summary

A comprehensive, fully illustrated volume about the burial monuments of the early inhabitants of the Central Highlands of Scotland - an indispensable reference source for the neolithic period in this area of Scotland.

Product details

• Authors: A. S. Henshall, Audrey S Henshall, Audrey S. Henshall, J N Graham Ritchie, J. N. Ritchie, J. N. G. Ritchie, J. N. Graham Ritchie
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2001
• EAN: 9780748606436
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-0643-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 189 mm x 245 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 744 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias