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1 online resource (447 pages) |
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SMA Excavations |
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SMA Excavations
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; EDITORIAL NOTE; CHAPTER 1 Introduction. Able Minds and Practised Hands: historical fact, 21st-century aspiration; CHAPTER 2 Sculpture in action: contexts for stone carving on the Tarbat peninsula, Easter Ross; CHAPTER 3 'That stone was born here and that's where it belongs': Hilton of Cadboll and the negotiation of identity, ownership and belonging; CHAPTER 4 'Just an aid steen': reverence, reuse, revulsion and rediscovery; CHAPTER 5 Fragments of significance: the whole picture |
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CHAPTER 6 Christ's Cross down into the earth: some cross-bases and their problemsCHAPTER 7 Pictish cross-slabs: an examination of their original archaeological context; CHAPTER 8 Hie memoria perpetua: the early inscribed stones of southern Scotland in context; CHAPTER 9 The Govan School revisited: searching for meaning in the early medieval sculpture of Strathclyde; CHAPTER 10 Scotland's early medieval sculpture in the 21st century: a strategic overview of conservation problems, maintenance and replication methods |
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CHAPTER 11 The containment of Scottish carved stones in situ: an environmental study of the efficacy of glazed enclosuresCHAPTER 12 The runic inscriptions of Scotland: preservation, documentation and interpretation; CHAPTER 13 Understanding what we see, or seeing what we understand: graphic recording, past and present, of the early medieval sculpture at St Vigeans; CHAPTER 14 The bulls of Burghead and Allen's technique of illustration; CHAPTER 15 'A perfect accuracy of delineation': Charlotte Wilhelmina Hibbert's drawings of early medieval carved stones in Scotland |
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CHAPTER 16 Bird, beast or fish? Problems of identification and interpretation of the iconography carved on the Tarbat peninsula cross-slabsCHAPTER 17 Figuring salvation: an excursus into the iconography of the Iona crosses; CHAPTER l8 The role of geological analysis of monuments: a case study from St Vigeans and related sites; CHAPTER 19 The early medieval sculptures from Murthly, Perth and Kinross: an interdisciplinary look at people, politics and monumental art |
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CHAPTER 20 Know your properties, recognise the possibilities: Historic Scotland's strategy for the interpretation of early medieval sculpture in its careCHAPTER 21 Proposals for the re-display of the early medieval sculpture collection at Whithorn: the evolution of an interpretative approach; CHAPTER 22 Curators of the last resort: the role of a local museum service in the preservation and interpretation of early medieval sculptured stones; CHAPTER 23 A museum curator's adventures in Pictland |
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CHAPTER 24 The missing dimension: future directions in digital recording of early medieval sculptured stone |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sculpture, Medieval.
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Sculpture, Medieval -- Scotland
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Sculpture, Medieval
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Scotland
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Staff, Society for Medieval Archaeology
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Cross, Morag
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| ISBN |
9781351577847 |
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1351577840 |
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