Anna Ritchie
Biographic Data
| ID | 5704468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Ritchie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Ritchie |
| SIGNATURE | RITCHIE A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Overlooked Gem of Pictish Art
A little-known fragment of cross-slab from St Ringan’s Cairn in the Grampian Mountains of Aberdeenshire (Scotland) is identified as a significant example of Pictish sculptural art of the late 8th or early 9th centuries. It was created by a skilled stone-carver with an exceptional sense of design, probably based in a monastery in southern Aberdeenshire or Angus, and its location marked an important route through the mountains between northern and …
A Pictish ‘serpent’ incised slab from Jarlshof, Shetland
The identification and dating of a supposed Norse grave slab of 10th-/11th-century date from Jarlshof, Shetland, consisting of two decorated fragments picked up on the beach beside this multi-period settlement site in the 1930s, are rejected by the authors of this paper in favour of a Pictish attribution, a late 6th- or early 7th-century date, and a probable architectural function. On the basis of a detailed examination of the two fragments of th…
Another Pictish cross-of-arcs
A fragment of carved stone known as ‘Lerwick’ (NMS X.IB.19) is argued to have come, most probably, from the Pictish levels at Jarlshof, Dunrossness, Shetland, sometime before June 1861. The stone bears part of a Pictish crescent symbol on one side and part of a cross-of-arcs embellished with decorated lentoid forms on the other. The symbol-bearing cross-slab from which the fragment comes probably dates to the 7th century and may have stood in or …
Pictish symbol stones and early cross-slabs from Orkney
Orkney shared in the flowering of interest in stone carving that took place throughout Scotland from the 7th century ad onwards. The corpus illustrated here includes seven accomplished Pictish symbol-bearing stones, four small stones incised with rough versions of symbols, at least one relief-ornamented Pictish cross-slab, thirteen cross-slabs (including recumbent slabs), two portable cross-slabs and two pieces of church furniture in the form of …
From Colonsay to Whithorn
William B M Galloway (1832-97) is one of the less well-known Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in the second half of the 19th century whose achievements deserve recognition. He was an architect with a distinct archaeological bent, and he was particularly interested in early ecclesiastical buildings and sculpture. He appears to have worked freelance after an initial training in Patrick Wilson's architectural practice, and he is bes…
Cemeteries of platform cairns and long cists around Sinclair's Bay, Caithness
The cemetery at Ackergill in Caithness has become the type site for Pictish platform cairns. A re-appraisal based on Society of Antiquaries of Scotland manuscripts, together with published sources, shows that, rather than comprising only the eight cairns and two long cists excavated by Edwards in the 1920s, the cemetery was more extensive. Close to Edward's site, Barry had already excavated two other circular cairns, three rectangular cairns and …
Richard Bradley. Stages and screens
Richard Bradley. Stages and screens: an investigation of four henge monuments in northern and north-eastern Scotland. xxiv+196 pages, 130 illustrations. 2011. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-0-903903-38-7 hardback. - Volume 86 Issue 332
A fragment of a Pictish symbol-bearing slab with carving in relief from Mail, Cunningsburgh, Shetland
A fragment of carved stone found in March 2008 is considered likely to be part of a Pictish cross-slab of eighth- to tenth-century date. It bears a double disc and Z-rod within a frame and part of an interlace design, carved in incision and low relief. This is the fifth symbol-bearing monument known from Shetland and the only one to bear this particular symbol. Each disc is infilled with a cross of arcs, but it is uncertain whether this is purely…
The Dupplin Cross
Widespread public concern about the weathering of the Dupplin Cross resulted in its removal from its site in the parklands of Dupplin Castle to a sheltered environment at St Serf’s Church, Dunning. An archaeological investigation of the immediate environment of the cross was carried out as part of this operation. This paper describes the cross and its context in the royal and ecclesiastical milieu of the ninth century. Cartographic evidence shows…
Mousa
Skara Brae
Maes Howe
Cecil L Curle
Mrs Cecil L Curle, FSA, FSA Scot, died in Jedburgh after a short illness on 12 April 1987, at the age of 85
Lecture summaries
Nine lecture summaries:Holm of Papa Westray: an insight into the Neolithic use of chambered tombsCord rig and early cultivation in the BordersEarly church architecture in the south of ScotlandTorphichen and the Knights of Saint John of JerusalemThe Dartmouth: a 17th-century warship in the Sound of MullThe procurement and use of stone for flaked tools in prehistoric ScotlandPower and authority in Early Historic Scotland: Pictish stones and other d…
Two cists from Boatbridge Quarry, Thankerton, Lanarkshire
Excavation of a Neolithic farmstead at Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkney
Re-excavation of two stone-built houses and associated midden deposits identified a farming community of the later fourth millennium BC, attributable to the makers of Unstan ware, and yielded extensive information about the contemporary natural environment
Excavation of Pictish and Viking-age farmsteads at Buckquoy, Orkney
HY 243282. Excavation revealed five superimposed farmsteads and quantities of finds. Phases I-II were Pictish, 7th to early 8th centuries, with a distinctive 'figure-of-eight' shaped house plan in II. Phases III-V had typically Norse house plans, and a final date for occupation is provided by a furnished burial made in the ruins of the Phase V house and dated to third quarter of 10th century. A degree of social integration between Pict and Norsem…
A long cist at Cnoc Aingil, Islay, Argyll
Excavation of a barrow at Queenafjold, Twatt, Orkney
A Prehistoric Field-Boundary From the Black Crofts, North Connel, Argyll
country where most of the surviving evidence is to be found, both as ditch-systems or lynchets and as small walled fields or enclosures, although recent work by the Archaeology Division, Ordnance Survey, is now redressing the regional imbalance An elaborate programme of research is currently being undertaken on the field-walls which have been discovered beneath the blanket peat in the west of Ireland(2), and it is the purpose of this note to make…
Painted pebbles in early Scotland
Pebbles with simple but carefully-painted designs are unique to Caithness and the Northern Isles between 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Their apparent connection with Pictish culture is supported by some sharing of motifs with the repertoire of the Pictish symbol stones. They may be charm stones like those known from medieval sources and folklore; the Life of St Columba also contains a reference to a healing stone
Excavation of a Neolithic farmstead at Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkney
Re-excavation of two stone-built houses and associated midden deposits identified a farming community of the later fourth millennium BC, attributable to the makers of Unstan ware, and yielded extensive information about the contemporary natural environment
Excavation of Pictish and Viking-age farmsteads at Buckquoy, Orkney
HY 243282. Excavation revealed five superimposed farmsteads and quantities of finds. Phases I-II were Pictish, 7th to early 8th centuries, with a distinctive 'figure-of-eight' shaped house plan in II. Phases III-V had typically Norse house plans, and a final date for occupation is provided by a furnished burial made in the ruins of the Phase V house and dated to third quarter of 10th century. A degree of social integration between Pict and Norsem…
A Prehistoric Field-Boundary From the Black Crofts, North Connel, Argyll
country where most of the surviving evidence is to be found, both as ditch-systems or lynchets and as small walled fields or enclosures, although recent work by the Archaeology Division, Ordnance Survey, is now redressing the regional imbalance An elaborate programme of research is currently being undertaken on the field-walls which have been discovered beneath the blanket peat in the west of Ireland(2), and it is the purpose of this note to make…
Painted pebbles in early Scotland
Pebbles with simple but carefully-painted designs are unique to Caithness and the Northern Isles between 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Their apparent connection with Pictish culture is supported by some sharing of motifs with the repertoire of the Pictish symbol stones. They may be charm stones like those known from medieval sources and folklore; the Life of St Columba also contains a reference to a healing stone
Excavation of a barrow at Queenafjold, Twatt, Orkney
A long cist at Cnoc Aingil, Islay, Argyll
Excavation of Pictish and Viking-age farmsteads at Buckquoy, Orkney
HY 243282. Excavation revealed five superimposed farmsteads and quantities of finds. Phases I-II were Pictish, 7th to early 8th centuries, with a distinctive 'figure-of-eight' shaped house plan in II. Phases III-V had typically Norse house plans, and a final date for occupation is provided by a furnished burial made in the ruins of the Phase V house and dated to third quarter of 10th century. A degree of social integration between Pict and Norsem…
Excavation of a Neolithic farmstead at Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkney
Re-excavation of two stone-built houses and associated midden deposits identified a farming community of the later fourth millennium BC, attributable to the makers of Unstan ware, and yielded extensive information about the contemporary natural environment
Two cists from Boatbridge Quarry, Thankerton, Lanarkshire
Lecture summaries
Nine lecture summaries:Holm of Papa Westray: an insight into the Neolithic use of chambered tombsCord rig and early cultivation in the BordersEarly church architecture in the south of ScotlandTorphichen and the Knights of Saint John of JerusalemThe Dartmouth: a 17th-century warship in the Sound of MullThe procurement and use of stone for flaked tools in prehistoric ScotlandPower and authority in Early Historic Scotland: Pictish stones and other d…
Cecil L Curle
Mrs Cecil L Curle, FSA, FSA Scot, died in Jedburgh after a short illness on 12 April 1987, at the age of 85
Mousa
Skara Brae
Maes Howe
The Dupplin Cross
Widespread public concern about the weathering of the Dupplin Cross resulted in its removal from its site in the parklands of Dupplin Castle to a sheltered environment at St Serf’s Church, Dunning. An archaeological investigation of the immediate environment of the cross was carried out as part of this operation. This paper describes the cross and its context in the royal and ecclesiastical milieu of the ninth century. Cartographic evidence shows…
A fragment of a Pictish symbol-bearing slab with carving in relief from Mail, Cunningsburgh, Shetland
A fragment of carved stone found in March 2008 is considered likely to be part of a Pictish cross-slab of eighth- to tenth-century date. It bears a double disc and Z-rod within a frame and part of an interlace design, carved in incision and low relief. This is the fifth symbol-bearing monument known from Shetland and the only one to bear this particular symbol. Each disc is infilled with a cross of arcs, but it is uncertain whether this is purely…
Cemeteries of platform cairns and long cists around Sinclair's Bay, Caithness
The cemetery at Ackergill in Caithness has become the type site for Pictish platform cairns. A re-appraisal based on Society of Antiquaries of Scotland manuscripts, together with published sources, shows that, rather than comprising only the eight cairns and two long cists excavated by Edwards in the 1920s, the cemetery was more extensive. Close to Edward's site, Barry had already excavated two other circular cairns, three rectangular cairns and …
Richard Bradley. Stages and screens
Richard Bradley. Stages and screens: an investigation of four henge monuments in northern and north-eastern Scotland. xxiv+196 pages, 130 illustrations. 2011. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-0-903903-38-7 hardback. - Volume 86 Issue 332
From Colonsay to Whithorn
William B M Galloway (1832-97) is one of the less well-known Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in the second half of the 19th century whose achievements deserve recognition. He was an architect with a distinct archaeological bent, and he was particularly interested in early ecclesiastical buildings and sculpture. He appears to have worked freelance after an initial training in Patrick Wilson's architectural practice, and he is bes…
Pictish symbol stones and early cross-slabs from Orkney
Orkney shared in the flowering of interest in stone carving that took place throughout Scotland from the 7th century ad onwards. The corpus illustrated here includes seven accomplished Pictish symbol-bearing stones, four small stones incised with rough versions of symbols, at least one relief-ornamented Pictish cross-slab, thirteen cross-slabs (including recumbent slabs), two portable cross-slabs and two pieces of church furniture in the form of …
Another Pictish cross-of-arcs
A fragment of carved stone known as ‘Lerwick’ (NMS X.IB.19) is argued to have come, most probably, from the Pictish levels at Jarlshof, Dunrossness, Shetland, sometime before June 1861. The stone bears part of a Pictish crescent symbol on one side and part of a cross-of-arcs embellished with decorated lentoid forms on the other. The symbol-bearing cross-slab from which the fragment comes probably dates to the 7th century and may have stood in or …
A Pictish ‘serpent’ incised slab from Jarlshof, Shetland
The identification and dating of a supposed Norse grave slab of 10th-/11th-century date from Jarlshof, Shetland, consisting of two decorated fragments picked up on the beach beside this multi-period settlement site in the 1930s, are rejected by the authors of this paper in favour of a Pictish attribution, a late 6th- or early 7th-century date, and a probable architectural function. On the basis of a detailed examination of the two fragments of th…
An Overlooked Gem of Pictish Art
A little-known fragment of cross-slab from St Ringan’s Cairn in the Grampian Mountains of Aberdeenshire (Scotland) is identified as a significant example of Pictish sculptural art of the late 8th or early 9th centuries. It was created by a skilled stone-carver with an exceptional sense of design, probably based in a monastery in southern Aberdeenshire or Angus, and its location marked an important route through the mountains between northern and …
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