Orkney : a historical guide /: a historical guide. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Caroline Wickham-Jones.
• Other Names: Wickham-Jones, C. R
• Contents: Cover; Title page; Dedication and Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Plates; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Useful Addresses; Preface; Visiting the Sites; Introduction; The Natural Background; The First Settlers: Mesolithic Orkney; Early Farmers: Neolithic Orkney; The First Metalworkers: Bronze Age Orkney; Fighting Farmers: Iron Age Orkney; The Coming of the Missionaries: Pictish Orkney; Foreign Settlers: the Norse in Orkney; Transfer to Scotland: Scottish Earls in Orkney; The Improving Years: Orkney in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. War and Peace: Orkney in the Twentieth CenturyNew Light on Ancient Orkney: archaeological discoveries in the early twenty-first century; Museums; Further Reading; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Birlinn
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (388 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 941.1/32; Historic sites -- Scotland -- Orkney -- Guidebooks; Lieux historiques -- Écosse -- Orcades -- Guides; HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain; Antiquities; Historic sites; Orkney (Scotland) -- Antiquities -- Guidebooks; Orkney (Scotland) -- History; Orcades (Écosse) -- Histoire; Scotland -- Orkney; Guidebooks; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857905918; 0857905910
• Related ISBNs: 1874744718; 9781874744719
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.