Scotland in Pagan Times: The Iron Age, 第 1 卷David Douglas, 1883 - 314 頁 |
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20 feet Aberdeenshire archæological Arthur Mitchell Ballinaby Banffshire Broch Broch of Burrian Broch of Yarhouse Bronze Armlet found bulbous burial Caithness Celtic Celtic art chambers character characteristic Christian circular cist construction Crannog curves DAVID DOUGLAS decoration described discs doorway Eigg enamels enclosed entrance excavated feet high feet in diameter feet wide flat floor found at Skaill fragments galleries George Petrie grave Grave-mound Ground Plan height hoard implements inches inches diameter inches high inches in diameter inches in length inches wide interments iron Iron Age island Islay Levenwick Loch metal mound Norway objects found Orkney ornamented oval bowl-shaped brooches Pagan patterns peculiar Peeblesshire penannular placed plate portion relics remains ring Roman roof round Scandinavian Scotland Shetland shield side silver similar Skaill slabs spaces spiral stair steatite Stone Ball found structure style surface sword terminal thin tower vessel Viking vitrified wall width zoomorphic
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第 87 頁 - ... ingots, and coins. The ornaments are brooches, neck rings, and arm rings. The brooches are of penannular form, but differ in their character from those we have learned to recognise as distinctively Celtic. The neck rings and arm rings present no features of a specially Celtic character. The coins are Cufic and Anglo-Saxon, dated mostly in the end of the ninth and the first half of the tenth centuries. No similar hoard has been discovered in any other part of Scotland. But in its general composition...
第 138 頁 - ... when you have those singularly beautiful curves — more beautiful, perhaps, in the parts that are not seen than in those that meet the eye— whose beauty, revealed in shadow more than in form — you have a peculiar characteristic — a form of beauty which belongs to no nation but our own, and to no portion of our nation but the Keltic portion.
第 288 頁 - ... take what was given him, but added he would not behave so meanly were he in Thorkel's place. At their parting Gisli was very down-hearted. Now he goes out to Vadil, to the -mother of Gest, the son of Oddleif, and reaches her house before dawn, and knocks at the door. The housewife goes to the door. She was often wont to harbour outlaws, and she had an underground room. One end of it opened on the river-bank and the other below her hall.
第 201 頁 - ... wall could be approached for this purpose when the whole of its upper materials were deadly missiles ready to the hands of the defenders. The door, securely fastened by its great bar, is too strong to be carried by a rush. Placed four feet or more within the passage, it can only be reached by one man at a time, and the narrowness of the passage prevents the use of long levers. In all probability the door itself is a slab of stone, and impervious to fire. But even if it is forced, and entrance...
第 124 頁 - ... both history and archaeology tends to show that the art of enamelling on metal was, in the first instance, a British one. The historical evidence is confined to an oft-quoted passage from the Icones of Philostratus (a Greek sophist in the court of Julia Domna, wife of the Emperor Severus), which is as follows : — "They say that the barbarians who live in the ocean...