This massive 2 volume set forms the second and final part of Euan MacKie's corpus of Iron Age brochs and related sites from Atlantic Scotland. It is a compendium of the available archaeological evidence for each of the sites in the region and contains descriptions of the material remains, finds, and excavations (although many sites have yet to be excavated), along with a host of plans and photographs, as well as evidence for dating and site sequences. Includes an extensive bibliography.
This massive 2 volume set forms the second and final part of Euan MacKie's corpus of Iron Age brochs and related sites from Atlantic Scotland. It is a...
The excavation of the Leckie Iron Age broch in Stirlingshire, Scotland, took place during the 1970's after the author had been asked to organise the work by a local archaeological society. At that stage the author did not consider - despite its location - that the site might vividly reflect the expansion of the Roman Empire into southern Scotland in the late first century AD. For various reasons the final report was not written until about thirty years after the fieldwork finished and by then the quality and significance of the Roman finds was much better understood, thanks to the analysis of...
The excavation of the Leckie Iron Age broch in Stirlingshire, Scotland, took place during the 1970's after the author had been asked to organise the w...