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Conservation of a turtle-shell mask
Roberts, Bronwen
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Whose Amber? Changing notions of Amber’s geographical origin
This essay explores the issue of cultural identity and cultural identification with respect to one material: amber. Prior to the discovery of the new world and for quite some time afterwards, the primary source of amber in fifteenth-, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe was Prussia. Few Europeans, however, really understood much...King, Rachel
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Edinburgh Cabinet Makers' wage agreements and wage disputes, 1805 to 1826
Printed price books, recording piece rate agreements between masters and journeymen in the cabinet making trade, have been overlooked in historical accounts of early nineteenth-century industrial relations. Art historians have used the price books to document the development of furniture styles but have not recognised the labour militancy which gave...Jackson, Stephen
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A token found at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, apparently associated with Mary Anning (1799–1847), fossil collector
A lettered metal disc bearing the date 1810 and found on the beach at Lyme Regis appears, but cannot conclusively be proven, to be a childhood possession of the young Mary Anning (1799–1847), later the famous fossil collector whose name and age it bears. An alternative, but problematical, possibility is...Taylor, Michael A ; Bull, Richard
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Portobello Potteries Ceramic Resource Disk 6
My work on the Portobello ceramic resource disk was funded by Historic Scotland. The shard material was catalogued using National Museums of Scotland accession numbers (FD.2006.1 to 659), and the catalogue has been divided into fabrics, types, forms, and decoration, in (11 folders and 93 word files), illustrations (1 to...Haggarty, George
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Newbigging Pottery Musselburgh, Scotland c 1800 - c 1930 Ceramic Resource Disc 1
The Newbigging ceramic material, listed and photographed on the enclosed disk has been assigned to the National Museums of Scotland and was catalogued using accession numbers (FD 2004.1.1 to 507. This small and fairly commonplace ceramic assemblage derives from a pottery of 19th and early 20th century date. The shards...Haggarty, George
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A gazetteer and summary of French pottery imported into Scotland c. 1150 to c. 1650 a ceramic contribution to Scotland's economic history Ceramic Resource Disc 3
The proposal for a series of published inventories, by countries, of all the imported medieval and post medieval pottery recovered from excavations and field walking in Scotland, was advanced on the final day of the Medieval Pottery Research Group’s conference held in Edinburgh in May 2001. Taking on the roll...Haggarty, George
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Belfield and Gordon's Potteries' Scotland Ceramic Resource Disk 8
All the ceramic material catalogued on the enclosed CD ROM. originated from the site of the Belfield pottery Cuttle, Prestonpans, East Lothian Scotland, and emanates from two phases of work. The first which produced by far the largest group of material, accession number (FD. 2007. 1 - 1 to 366),...Haggarty, George
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The Verreville pottery Glasgow: Ceramic Resource Disk 4
The ceramic material listed, described, and photographed, on the enclosed ceramic resource disk, comes from an archaeological excavation funded by FM Developments Ltd., and carried out in 2005 on the site of the Verreville glass and pottery manufactury in Glasgow by Headland Archaeology Ltd. The ceramic material recovered dates mostly...Haggarty, George
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Morrison Haven, East Lothian, Scotland Ceramic Resource Disc 7
The pottery listed, described, and photographed in the enclosed ceramic resource disk has been assigned to East Lothian Council Museum Service. It was catalogued using the accession numbers (FD.2008.1.1 to 374) and classified and divided by fabric type, form, and decoration into (7) folders and (44) files, created in Microsoft...Haggarty, George
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Book chapter
Chairs of the Northern Isles
Jackson, Stephen
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Conference paper (published)
Tradition and Transition: The changing fortunes of barkcloth in Uganda. In Society of America Symposium Proceedings. 1012.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Scottish travellers, missionaries and colonial officials were among the first Europeans to visit east and central Africa. The objects they collected whilst living amongst those whose customs and traditions were so unfamiliar, form the backbone of the National Museum of Scotland’s early...Worden, Sarah
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Technical report
Ceramic Resource disc 10 - Thistle Pottery Portobello Buchan's hand painted stoneware
All the ceramic material catalogued on the enclosed CD ROM. originating from the Buchan’s pottery Portobello was recovered during a program of work carried out by CFA Archaeology, Project Code (Leit 4), for the City of Edinburgh, under the management of John Lawson. It has been catalogued by fabric, type,...Haggarty, George