Old Photograph Braefoot Methil Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Braefoot, Methil, Fife, Scotland. Methil is an eastern coastal town in Scotland. It was part of the former Burgh of Buckhaven and Methil. It lies within a continuous urban area described as Levenmouth. It lies geographically between Largo bay to the east and Wemyss Bay to the West.



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Old Photograph Kinnesswood Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of Kinnesswood, Perthshire, Scotland. The village of Kinnesswood together with Scotlandwell, Easter Balgedie, Wester Balgedie and Glenlomond form the Parish of Portmoak. The villages all nestle along the foot of the Bishop Hill, part of the Lomond Hills. The name, Portmoak, or the original " Pitmoag " takes the name from the area dedicated to St. Moak in the first Millennium AD. From the 16th Century until 1926 the village was an important centre for the manufacture of Parchment and Vellum.



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Street View Portmahomack Scotland

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Street view of Portmahomack, Easter Ross, Scotland.

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A trail of chance finds on the outskirts of Portmahomack during the 19th and 20th centuries culminated in 1996 in the first exposure of a Pictish settlement in northern Scotland. The area soon became the subject of one of the largest research excavations ever to have taken place on the Scottish mainland. Discover the world of the Picts with this unique account of the discovery and excavation of an early monastery. Dating from the 6th to the 9th century AD, Portmahomack is one of the earliest Christian sites to be revealed in Britain and the first in the land of the Picts. The monastery was destroyed between 780 and 830 AD and was then lost to history before being unearthed by Martin Carver and his colleagues. In this highly illustrated book, Martin Carver describes the discovery of the site and the design and execution of the research programme, then traces the events that occurred from the mid-6th century to the 11th century when the parish church was founded on the former monastic site. The book ends with the subsequent history of the church of St Colman and a study of the Tarbat peninsula.The author's conclusions advance the theory that this was a prehistoric place before the monks arrived, and that they marked out the boundaries of their estate in the late 8th century with the lives of local saints carved on some of the greatest stone sculptures of the age. Portmahomack: Monastery of the Picts.

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Old Photograph Docks Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of Victoria Docks, Dundee, Scotland. During the medieval period Dundee was second only to Edinburgh in terms of commercial prosperity. Most early trade was by sea and Dundee was ideally located on shipping routes to and from the Baltic and North European ports due to being closer than Edinburgh by two days sailing. The earliest harbour is thought to have been at Gellatly Street and Seagate junction, the port had moved westwards by the 16th Century to a point close to the current High Street at Whitehall Crescent.

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April 26th Photograph Daffodils Scotland

April 26th photograph of daffodils in Perthshire, Scotland.

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