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Q&A with Margaret Maitland
Missing fragments of a 15th-century Egyptian box finally returned to NMSDurrans, Alice
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Review of M.Parker Pearson, N.Sharples, and J.Symonds, South Uist: archaeology and history of a Hebridean island
Two outstanding books have recently been published about the archaeology and history of the Outer Hebrides. Andrew Fleming’s St Kilda and the Wider World is one; Parker Pearson et al's is the other. South Uist presents the results of a major interdisciplinary and collaborative research project undertaken principally by the...Sheridan, J A
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New finds of Scottish fourteenth-century hoards
Holmes, N M McQ.
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Everything you always wanted to know about…la néolithisation de la Grande-Bretagne et de l'Irlande
In Great Britain and in Ireland, two conflicting models of neolithisation have been proposed. One, that is based on the assumption that indigenous late Mesolithic groups were in contact with Continental farmers (as in the case of the Ertebølle culture in Denmark), proposes a slow acculturation process; but there is...Pailler, Yves ; Sheridan, J A
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Two denarius hoards from Birnie, Moray
This paper will describe and discuss the significance of two hoards of Roman silver denarii found within a few metres of each other on what proved to be an important settlement site at Birnie, near Elgin, Moray - the first between 1996 and 2000, and the second in 2001.Holmes, N M McQ.
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Victorian photography: a Scottish perspective
Morrison-Low, A D
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How silver became Scotland's precious metal of choice
Silver - not gold - was the most powerful material in the formative history of Scotland in the first millennium AD, yet none was mined here. How did silver become Scotland's precious metal of choice?Blackwell, Alice
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Supernatural power dressing
Jewellery from Bronze Age graves is normally interpreted as a symbol of status. Howevr, materials like jet, amber, faience and tin were also worn as talismans, writes Alison Sheridan When archaeologists found the 4,300-year-old burial of an archer and metalworker at Amesbury in Wiltshire last year, they knew at once...Sheridan, J A ; Shortland, A
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The Niddrie Marischal sundial
Morrison-Low, A D
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Lestricus secalis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cenocoeliina), a genus and species new to Britain
Lestricus secalis (L.) was inadvertently listed as British on the basis of an old speculation but, as there was neither firm evidence nor the existence of any specimen, it was deleted from the British list by Shaw & Huddleston (1991). However, it was suggested by Shaw (1999) that the species...Shaw, Mark R ; Mendel, Howard
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An William the Lion purse hoard from Roxburghshire
Holmes, N M McQ.