The Age of the Picts and The Wall. Romes Greatest Frontier
VINTAGESTAN BOOKS Title: The Age of the Picts by W.A. Cummins and The Wall. Romes Greatest Frontier by Alistair Moffat Summary: The Age of the Picts. The Pictish nation, forged in the shadow of the Roman empire, was the dominant power in northern Britain for more than five hundred years. Those who have tailed to find a satisfactory account of Pictish history will find this book invaluable. It provides a fresh look at the whole Pictish story, placing it firmly in its true historical context and reassessing topics such as the legend of Drust son of Erp and St. Columba's mission to the Picts. The Wall. Romes Greatest Frontier. Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monuments in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the Cumbrian coast. Many of its forts are as large as Britain's most formidable medieval castles, and the wide ditch dug to the south of the Wall, the vallum, is larger than any surviving prehistoric earthwork. Built in a ten-year period by more than 30,000 soldiers and labourers at the behest of an extraordinary emperor, the Wall consisted of more than 24 million stones, giving it a mass greater than all the Egyptian pyramids put together. At least a million people visit Hadrian's Wall each year and it has been designated a World Heritage Site. In this new book, based on literary and historical sources as well as the latest archaeological research, Alistair Moffat considers who built the Wall, how it was built, why it was built and how it affected the native peoples who lived in its mighty shadow. The result is a unique and fascinating insight into one of the Wonders of the Ancient World. Authors: W.A. Cummins and Alistair Moffat Publisher: Sutton Publishing, Stroud and Birlinn Publishing, Edinburgh Year Published: 1999 and 2017 Edition: Original Binding type: Softcover ISBN: 9780750916080 & 9781841578899 Dimensions: Age of the Picts 24cm x 17cm. The Wall 19.5cm x 13cm Notes: SKU: VSS / 264 / G / 7294 / 0 Condition Dust Jacket Condition: Not applicable Book condition: Very good. Bumps, handling marks, marks Binding: Intact Pages: Age of the Picts 166 pages. The Wall 270 pages
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