Barshalder 1 : A cemetery in Grötlingbo and Fide parishes, Gotland, Sweden, c. AD 1-1100. Excavations and finds 1826-1971

The prehistoric cemetery of Barshalder is located along the main road on the boundary between Grötlingbo and Fide parishes, near the southern end of the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. The cemetery was used from c. AD 1-1100. The level of publication in Swedish archaeology of the first millennium AD is low compared to, for instance, the British and German examples. Gotland’s rich Iron Age cemeteries have long been intensively excavated, but few have received monographic treatment. This publication is intended to begin filling this gap and to raise the empirical level of the field. It also aims to make explicit and test the often somewhat intuitively conceived results of much previous research. The analyses deal mainly with the Migration (AD 375–540), Vendel (AD 520–790) and Late Viking (AD 1000–1150) Periods. The following lines of inquiry have been prioritised. 1. Landscape history, i.e. placing the cemetery in a landscape-historical context. (Vol. 1, section 2.2.6) 2. Migration Period typochronology, i.e. the study of change in the grave goods. (Vol. 2, chapter 2) 3. Social roles: gender, age and status. (Vol. 2, chapter 3) 4. Religious identity in the 11th century, i.e. the study of religious indicators in mortuary customs and grave goods, with particular emphasis on the relationship between Scandinavian paganism and Christianity.. (Vol. 2, chapter 4) Barshalder is found to have functioned as a central cemetery for the surrounding area, located on peripheral land far away from contemporary settlement, yet placed on a main road along the coast for maximum visibility and possibly near a harbour. Computer supported correspondence analysis and seriation are used to study the gender attributes among the grave goods and the chronology of the burials. New methodology is developed to distinguish gender-neutral attributes from transgressed gender attributes. Sub-gender grouping due to age and status is explored. An independent modern chronology system with rigorous type definitions is established for the Migration Period of Gotland. Recently published chronology systems for the Vendel and Viking Periods are critically reviewed, tested and modified to produce more solid models. Social stratification is studied through burial wealth with a quantitative method, and the results are tested through juxtaposition with several other data types. The Late Viking Period graves of the late 10th and 11th centuries are studied in relation to the contemporary Christian graves at the churchyards. They are found to be symbolically soft-spoken and unobtrusive, with all pagan attributes kept apart from the body in a space between the feet of the deceased and the end of the over-long inhumation trench. A small number of pagan reactionary graves with more forceful symbolism are however also identified. The distribution of different 11th century cemetery types across the island is used to interpret the period’s confessional geography, the scale of social organisation and the degree of allegiance to western and eastern Christianity. 11th century society on Gotland is found to have been characterised by religious tolerance, by an absence of central organisation and by slow piecemeal Christianisation.

London, England : parishes, districts, and extra parochial places, 1884 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of London and its environs : shewing the boundary of the jurisdiction of the metropolitan board of work, also the boundaries of the city of London, the Parishes, the Districts & Extra Parochial Places. It was published by Edward Standford, April 21, 1884. Scale [ca. 1:31,680]. This map is part of a 5 map set showing various thematic districts and boundaries of the London region. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the British National Grid coordinate system (British National Grid, Airy Spheroid OSGB (1936) Datum). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, selected private and public buildings, towns and villages, cemeteries, parks, farms, parish, district, and extra parochial place boundaries, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes notes and indices. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

Census of Scotland - 1861 : population tables and report : number of the inhabitants, families, children at school, houses, and rooms with windows, in the civil counties and parishes, registration counties and districts, burghs, towns, villages, and islands of Scotland : also a classification of families according to their sizes, the number of persons they contain, and their relative house accommodation : presented by command of Her Majesty to both houses of parliament.

"Errata": 1 p. atend.

Parochial and family history of the parishes of Tintagel and Trevalga, in the country of Cornwall.

Contains pedigrees of the Collow, alias Cullowe, Lercedkne, Wood, Chilcott and Baron families.

The new Lancashire gazetteer; or, Topographical dictionary, containing an accurate description of the several hundreds, boroughs, market towns, parishes, townships, and hamlets, in the county palatine of Lancaster ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Illustrations of the site and neighbourhood of the new post office, comprehending antiquarian notices of St. Martin's-le-Grand, and its liberty, and the adjoining parishes of St. Anne, St. Agnes, and St. John, Zachary, with an appendix, containing an account of the antient Mourning Bush Tavern, & c. Aldersgate. And various London taverns, its contemporaries.

Mode of access: Internet.

The town officer's guide, containing a compilation of the general laws of Massachusetts, relating to the whole power and duty of towns, districts, and parishes, with their several officers; with a digest of the decisions in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, relating to the several subjects.

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton : late rector of the united parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth, and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw. Lombard Street : with general remarks on his life, connexions, and character /

Mode of access: Internet.

The statistical account of Scotland. Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 14611.

Sermons, &c., addressed to the inhabitants of the parishes of Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Mary, in Brecon.

Mode of access: Internet.

The historical antiquities of Hertfordshire: with the original of counties, hundreds or wapentakes ... the foundation and origin of monasteries, churches ... and vicarages ... Faithfully collected from public records ... and other select authorities. Together with an exact transcript of Domesday book so far as concerns this shire, and the translation thereof in English. To which are added, the epitaphs and memorable inscriptions in all the parishes ...

"An exact reprint of the original work."--Dict. nat. biog.

Speculi Britanniae pars altera: or, A delineation of Northamptonshire; being a brief historicall and chorographcall discription of that county. Wherein are also alphabetically set down, the names of cyties, townes, parishes ...

Page vii incorrectly numbered ivi.

A historical and descriptive view of the Parishes of Monkwearmouth and Bishopwearmouth and the port and Borough of Sunderland.

Includes also engraved t.-p.

A history of the county Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century.

Vol. 5 published by the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland under title: Howth and its owners.

History of Stamford, Connecticut : from its settlement in 1641, to the present time, including Darien, which was one of its parishes until 1820 /

Includes index.