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2015
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The excavation of two short cist burials at Broomlands, Kelso
Two stone-built short cists were excavated in Broomlands, Kelso, by AOC Archaeology Group under the Historic Scotland Call-off Contract for Human Remains. A single poorly preserved adult inhumation was recovered from one cist, along with a small intrusive disc-shaped perforated oil shale object. The inhumation was dated to 2340–2120 cal...McLaren, Dawn ; Wilson, Donald
inhumations, Kelso, cist, spindle whorl, and Bronze Age
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2016
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A short cist burial at Kilkeddan Farm, Campbeltown, Argyll & Bute
AOC Archaeology Group undertook the excavation of a previously unknown Bronze Age cist, located in a field close to Kilkeddan Farm, Argyll & Bute, during September 2005 under the Historic Scotland call-off contract for human remains. The cist was found to contain poorly surviving unburnt human skeletal remains along with...McLaren, Dawn ; Wilson, Donald
Knife, Burial, Food Vessel, Bronze Age, and Rapid-Response Excavation
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2015
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Approaches to household inventories and household furnishing, 1500-1650
Inventory texts are structured and patterned by social priorities as interesting as the artefacts described. Reconstructing those priorities leads to a better understanding of the significance of furnishing within architectural planning. This article presents the hall as central to the demonstration of inequality of wealth and power within sixteenth- and...Pearce, Michael
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2015
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"Keep your powder dry": Mementoes of 1715
Breignan, Adrienne
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2015
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An Iron Age burial with weapons, on a site with evidence of medieval and post-medieval occupation from Dunbar, East Lothian
In September and October 2015, an archaeological excavation was undertaken on the site of the former Empire Cinema on Dunbar High Street. In addition to late medieval and post-medieval remains, a cist grave of pre-Roman or Roman Iron Age date was excavated and recorded. Two adult males occupied the cist...Roy, Mike
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2017
Journal article
Q&A with Margaret Maitland
Missing fragments of a 15th-century Egyptian box finally returned to NMSDurrans, Alice
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2017
Journal article
International network of scholars to explore the role of silver in Early Medieval Europe
A major grant awarded to National Museums Scotland will allow historians to explore the role that silver played in the emergence of the Early Medieval kingdoms of Europe.Blackwell, Alice
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2017
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One Theban tomb, 1000 years of burial
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, 'The Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Burial', explores changing funerary practices through the story of one Theban tomb, used and reused for over 1000 years, before it became the first to be systematically excavated and recorded 160 years ago, as curator...Maitland, Margaret