Title & Author:

Scottish weapons and fortifications, 1100-1800 / edited by David H. Caldwell.

Publication:

Edinburgh : J. Donald ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Humanities Press, ©1981.

Description:

xvii, 452 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Distributor from label mounted on title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The defences of earth and timber castles / E.J. Talbot. -- Three medieval swords from Scotland / J.G. Scott. -- Late medieval defences in Scotland / G. Stell. -- The artillery fortification at Threave Castle, Galloway / C.J. Tabraham & G.L. Good. -- Royal patronage of arms and armour making in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Scotland / D.H. Caldwell. -- Artillery and major places of strength in the Lothians and the East Border, 1513-1542 / I. MacIvor. -- The early basket-hilt in Britain / C. Blair. -- Some notes on Scottish axes and long shafted weapons / D.H. Caldwell. -- The birth of the Scottish pistol / G. Boothroyd. -- Armour in seventeenth-century portraits / S. Stevenson. -- The word Claymore / C. Blair. -- A scroll-butt flintlock pistol by Patrick Buchanan of Glasgow / J.G. Scott. -- A type of Highland target / C. Blair. -- A carpenter's rule belonging to Thomas Gemmill, armourer of Glasgow / G.L'E. Turner.

ISBN:

0859760472
9780859760478

Subject:

Weapons Scotland History.
Fortification Scotland History.
Armes Écosse Histoire.
Fortifications Écosse Histoire.
Fortification.
Weapons.
Waffe
Verdedigingswerken.
Wapens (krijgskunde)
Scotland.
Schottland
Scotland Military equipment: Weapons & armour, 1100-1800
Scotland Fortifications, 1100-1800

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Caldwell, David H.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 138373
Call No.: ID:87-B16865
Status: Available