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Brochs, Economy and Power

No / Brochs are one of the ultimate expressions of regional diversity in the British Iron Age, a geographically restricted, monumental and complex variant of the roundhouse. They are the best-preserved Iron Age dwellings in Britain if not Europe, often requiring the visitor to duck to avoid the lintel as they enter the building, and yet too often they have been sidelined as local curiosities in wider narratives of the period. This trend has been bucked in recent years in the specialist literature, with more theoretically-informed interpretations; here Armit sets out to place broch studies before a wider audience.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/3877
Date January 2002
CreatorsDockrill, Stephen
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeBook chapter, No full-text in the repository
Relationhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Brochs-Iron-Age-Scotland/dp/075242517X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257840064&sr=1-1

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