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‘The cannel coal bangle’. In: H Gray & I Suddaby, ‘Early Neolithic pits, an Iron Age ring-ditch house and associated features at Coul Brae, Mosstodloch, Moray’
Excavations at Coul Brae, Mosstodloch, Moray, revealed the remains of a multi-period site including two Early Neolithic pits containing large quantities of Carinated Bowl in the modified ‘North-East Style’, lithics, a broken saddle quern and charred oak. To the south of these features lay the remains of an Early to...Hunter, Fraser
Moray, Carinated Bowl ware, Neolithic pits, Iron Age, and ring-ditch
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Investigating a Stirling Goldsmith
McGill, Lyndsay
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Unknown Japanese paintings in Scotland
There is a considerable number of interesting Japanese paintings in public collections across Scotland. For the large part they were acquired at the end of the 19th century by individuals interested in East Asian art, and were subsequently donated to public collections. The future holds the possibility that the owning...Buckland, Rosina
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The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and their Museum: Scotland’s national collection and a national discourse
Founded in 1780, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland began immediately to form a museum that has survived remarkably intact within the National Museums of Scotland. Their initiative marked a significant point in the evolution of material culture studies between the “cabinet of curiosities” of the Renaissance and the large...Cheape, Hugh
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Appendix 5: the Sheep Hill oil shale and cannel coal jewellery: In E W MacKie, Excavations on Sheep Hill, West Dunbartonshire, 1966-69: a Late Bronze Age timber-framed dun and a small Iron Age hillfort
Excavations at Sheep Hill hillfort, West Dunbartonshire, took place at weekends between 1966 and 1969, with a small team of volunteers. The fort is sited on a volcanic plug of basalt with extensive views up and down the river Clyde. The finds are in the Hunterian Museum of the University...Mackie, Ewan ; Hunter, Fraser
vitrified fort, moulds, shale ornaments, cup-and-ring rock, and hillfort
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A new type of Alexander III farthing
Holmes, N M McQ. ; Allen, Martin