Books from Society Antiquaries Scotland
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Excavations Within Edinburgh Castle in 1988-91
By Stephen T. Driscoll, Peter Yeoman, Jane ClarkThis bridge had to be lifted by a 100 tonne crane to allow the final photos of the discoveries to be taken. The final stages of the excavations at Mills Mount (Area X) involved digging underneath the shop while it was still in use, ...
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Excavations in the Medieval Burgh of Perth, 1979-1981
By Philip HoldsworthHodgson , GWI 1981 A comparative account of the metrical data derived from selected historic sites in Great Britain . PhD thesis , Dundee University . Hodgson , GWI 1983 ' The animal remains from medieval sites within three royal burghs ...
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Castle Park, Dunbar: Two Thousand Years on a Fortified Headland
Carlisle, at the head of the Solway Firth, has produced one 'sceat' of Series QIG (Metcalf 1993-4, III, 491) and one of Series Y (^Ethelred I with Archbishop Eanbald; Pirie 1997, 334), while on the east coast Lindisfarne, ...
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The Scottish Glass Industry 1610-1750: "to Serve the Whole Nation with Glass"
By Jill TurnbulllfS XI. S Ms 2133. Gregory's collections, ' Local resident, pers coram, June 1996. 181-9". It seems reasonable to assume that Hay's purpose in going THE FOUNDATION OFTHR SCOTTISH GLASS INDUSTRY.
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The Biggings, Papa Stour, Shetland: The History and Excavation of a Royal Norwegian Farm
By Barbara Elizabeth Crawford, Beverley Ballin SmithA piece of cork, the bark of cork oak {Qaereus suber L.). was a surprising find from the burnt floor level J42 (illus 42). It measures 75nim x 67mm x 19mm, maximum dimensions; the margin is irregular and the only indication of use is a ...
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The Good Stones: A New Investigation of the Clava Cairns
By Richard Bradley, Colleen E. BateyCormack, W & Coles, J 1968 'A Mesolithic site at Low Clone, Wigtownshire', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, ... Gibson, A 1993 'The excavation of two cairns and associated features at Carneddau, Carno, Powys, 1989-90', ...
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The Moon and the Bonfire: An Investigation of Three Stone Circles in North-east Scotland
By Richard BradleyBarnatt, J 1989 Stone Circles of Britain. ... Barrett, J and Fewster, K 1998 'Stonehenge: Is the medium the message? ... Clark, J D G 1932 'The date of the plano-convex flint knife in England and Wales', Antiquaries Journal, 12, 158–62.
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A Crannog of the First Millennium, AD: Excavations by Jack Scott at Loch Glashan, Argyll, 1960
By Anne Crone, Ewan CampbellMoorhouse, S 1986 'Non-dating uses of medieval pottery', Medieval Ceramics 10, 85–124. Morris, C 1984 Anglo-Saxon and Medieval woodworking crafts: the manufacture and use of domestic and utilitarian artefacts in the British Isles ...
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The Cleaven Dyke and Littleour: Monuments in the Neolithic of Tayside
By Gordon Barclay, Gordon S. MaxwellCowie, TG 1993 'A survey of the Neolithic pottery of eastern and central Scotland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 123 (1993), ... Wales and the Isle of Man', in T Darvill & J Thomas (eds) Neolithic Houses in Northwest Europe and Beyond, 77- 111.
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The Caves of Mid Argyll: An Archaeology of Human Use
By Christopher Tolan-SmithChristopher Tolan-Smith set out on a programme of fieldwork on caves and rockshelters in Mid Argyll to answer the question of why settlement on the west coast of Scotland appeared to happen later than in the islands.