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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe. Image cartographique : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : MacKie, Euan Wallace (1936-....)
Titre(s) : Brochs and the Empire [Texte imprimé] : the impact of Rome on Iron Age Scotland as seen in the Leckie Broch excavations / Euan W. MacKie
Publication : Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing, [2016]
Description matérielle : x, 168 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection : Archaeopress Archaeology
Lien à la collection : Archaeopress archaeology
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
"The excavation of the Leckie Iron Age broch in Stirlingshire, Scotland, took place
during the 1970s 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 them by experts. Many of them seemed like gifts to the broch chief, despite the
clear evidence of the violent destruction of the broch at a later date. The Roman
author Tacitus gave a detailed account of Governor Agricola's campaigns in southern
Scotland and pointed out that he sometimes tried to make friends with local chiefs
before invading their territories, to avoid un-necessary casualties. This also applied
to the first Roman naval excursion up the west coast and explains the evidence from
Dun Ardtreck, Skye, excavated in the 1960s. This site was also destroyed later and
this could reflect the later hostile voyage of the navy after the battle of Mons Graupius
which occurred after a few years of campaigning. Thus Rome's accounts can allow one
to understand the history of some native sites much more vividly."
Sujet(s) : Âge du fer -- Écosse (GB)
Romains -- Écosse (GB)
Antiquités préhistoriques -- Gargunnock (GB)
Fouilles archéologiques -- Gargunnock (GB)
Civilisation -- Écosse (GB) -- Influence romaine
Civilisation -- Écosse (GB) -- Antiquité
Leckie Brock (GB)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781784914400. - ISBN 1784914401. - ISBN 9781784914417 (erroné). - ISBN 178491441X
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45295740r
Notice n° :
FRBNF45295740
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