Description and condition:

Green cloth hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 240pp, index, bibliography and notes, b/w illustrations.

Very good with nice clean pages throughout. In good dustcover with chipping and tears.

Contents:

The first comprehensive, illustrated account of the progress of human occupation of North Britain in prehistoric times. North Britain: occupants; countryside; western region; Clydesdale; Lothian Plain; Tweeddale; Northumberland; Annandale; Nithsdale and north Cumberland; Galloway. Savages: the empty land; arrivals in the west; arrivals in the east; immigration farther north; the population; existing remains. Barbarians: the western region; chambered tombs; habitations; the eastern region; long barrows and cairns; unenclosed cemeteries; beaker immigrants; henge monuments; individual burial; cup-and-ring markings; enclosed cremation cemeteries; round barrows and cairns; standing stones; the use of metals; existing remains. towards civilisation: open settlements; the simple-ring house; the ring-groove house; the ring-ditch house; houses of advance design; stone-walled houses; the crannog house; the dun; the broch; enclosures; palisaded enclosures; ramparts and ditches; walls; the role of settlements; later settlements; scooped settlements and scooped homesteads; souterrains; agriculture; burials; religion; existing remains. conclusion: into history.