Post-Pictish Problems: The Moray Firthlands in the 9th-11th Centuries

by Martin Carver

In this publication Martin Carver paints a picture of the Moray Firth area in its early Christian prime, and immediately afterwards, using only material culture. His main objective is to raise the profile of this period for archaeologists and move it right up their agenda for early Historic Scotland. Needless to say, the principal source of his evidence and most of his inspiration is the Tarbat peninsula, where he has been researching for 14 years.

36 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2008

About the author

Martin Oswald Hugh Carver, FSA, Hon FSA Scot is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, England, director of the Sutton Hoo Research Project and a leading exponent of new methods in excavation and survey. He specialises in the archaeology of early Medieval Europe. He has an international reputation for his excavations at Sutton Hoo, on behalf of the British Museum and the Society of Antiquaries and at the Pictish monastery at Portmahomack Tarbat, Easter Ross, Scotland. He has undertaken archaeological research in England, Scotland, France, Italy and Algeria.