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Early Scottish Trades Gravestone. Irvine. The Scottish or Lowland Scottish gravestone is unique to the north of the British Isles. The study of Scottish Lowland Gravestones is essential to the overall study of British monumental inscriptions. The level of symbolism and detail on Scottish stones reached a peak during the 18th century.
The Howff is a burial ground in the city of Dundee, Scotland. Established in 1564, it has one of the most important collections of tombstones in Scotland, and is protected as a category A listed building. [1] The majority of graves face exactly due east.
In the late 6th and early 7th centuries, it encompassed roughly what is now Argyll and Bute and Lochaber in Scotland, and also County Antrim in Ireland. [10] Dál Riata is commonly viewed as having been an Irish Gaelic colony in Scotland, although some archaeologists have recently argued against this. [ 11 ]
The Early Prehistory of Scotland, by Tony Pollard and Alex Morrison, 1996, ISBN 0-585-10420-4; The Later Prehistory of the Western Isles of Scotland, by Ian Armit, 1992, ISBN 0-86054-731-0; Prehistoric Scotland, by Ann MacSween and Mick Sharp, 1989, ISBN 0-7134-6173-X; Guide to Prehistoric Scotland, by Richard Feachem, 1977, Simon & Schuster
In The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland (1903) J Romilly Allen and Joseph Anderson first classified Pictish stones into three groups. [2] Critics have noted weaknesses in this system but it is widely known and still used in the field. In particular, the classification may be misleading for the many incomplete stones.
Among the most impressive surviving monuments of the period are the first sets of standing stones in Scotland, such as those at Stenness on the mainland of Orkney, which date from about 3100 BCE, of four stones, the tallest of which is 16 feet (5 m) in height. [8] The Callanish Stones, one of the finest stone circles in Scotland
Old Calton Cemetery, looking towards Calton Hill. The villagers of Calton, a village at the western base of Calton Hill, buried their dead at South Leith Parish Church.This was so inconvenient that, in 1718, the Society of the Incorporated Trades of Calton bought a half acre of ground at a cost of £1013 from Lord Balmerino, the feudal superior of the land, for use as a burial ground for the ...
The Standing Stones of Stenness, Orkney Callanish Stones – one of the finest stone circles in Scotland Maeshowe chambered cairn, Orkney Jarlshof, Shetland, re-discovered in the late nineteenth century Reconstructed crannog on Loch Tay. Scotland's Neolithic discoveries portray a radical departure from the earlier hunter-gatherer societies ...