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Edinburgh: Scottish Society for Northern Studies, 1982 28 maps; 100 illustrations; Preface by the editor and 11 essays; Paperback; Spine creased, else near fine.
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- Title Caithness: A cultural crossroads
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- Publisher Scottish Society for Northern Studies
- Date 1982
- ISBN 9780950599410
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Caithness: a cultural crossroads
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Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Society for Northern Studies, 1982. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Our photos depict actual book for sale. B&W pictorial softcover with wear and toning at edges. Interior is unmarked. 8vo. Ships from our family-owned, independent bookstore in the US. BOOK INFO: Papers originally presented at the conference of the Scottish Society for Northern Studies held at Thurso in April 1979. '...Caithness has indeed been a cultural crossroads, not once but many times. As Donald Omand has shown in his analysis of its geographical form and landscape this ahs been in great part through its location at the extreme north-eastern tip of Britain and its attraction as an area for settlement, low-lying and relatively fertile beyond the forbidding rocks and moors of the northern highlands. The early significance of Caithness is attested by the great burial cairns of the late Stone Age and the standing stones of the Bronze Age, while its numerous Iron Age defensive structures -- including well…
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