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The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland (1904)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Celts from Antiquity
The second in the series bringing together papers from 75 years of the distinguished archaeological journal Antiquity, turns its attention to the Celts. As the editors set out in the introduction, the term 'Celtic' is problematic, and this volume essentially addresses 1st millennium BC in Europe, including discussion of the definition of the term 'Celticity' along the way. There are twenty-six papers divided into four sections: 'Celticity', Continental Europe, The southern British Iron Age, and The Scottish Iron Age.
The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland The history and antiquities of Shetland have at all times possessed for me an absorbing interest; and this it has fortunately been in my power to gratify, during a long series of years, in a practical way, by the excavation of ancient structures now in ruins; by discoveries of remains of the prehistoric age and of inscribed and sculptured monuments of the Celts and Scandinavians who in succession have occupied the islands; as well as by glimpses, often unexpected and curious, of local life in the olden time, which have rewarded the exploration of many musty records. In the General Register House, in the Charter House of the Cit...
Celtic Art
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Early Celtic Art
"For many, perhaps most, the title Early Celtic Art summons up images of Early Christian stone crosses in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, or Cornwall; of Glendalough, lona or Tintagel; of the Ardagh Chalice or the Monymusk Reliquary; of the great illuminated gospels of Durrow or Lindisfame. But as Stuart Piggott notes, the consummate works of art produced under the aegis of the early churches in Britain or Ireland, in regions Celtic by tradition or language, have an ancestry behind them only partly Celtic. One strain in an eclectic style was borrowed from the ornament of the northern Germanic world, the classical Mediterranean, and even the Eastern churches. Early Celtic art, originating in the fi...
