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Fonn's Duthchas: Land and Legacy
Fonn’s Duthchas: Land and Legacy was produced to accompany the travelling exhibition of the same name for Highland 2007 which included iconic items from the collections of National Museums Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland. A narrative (in Gaelic and English) by Professor James...Hunter, James ; Cheape, Hugh
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Book chapter
Coins and jetons
Holmes, Nicholas
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Book chapter
In the shadow of Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon: the 10th Duke of Hamilton and Raeburn
‘Indiscriminate praise is little better than censure’: critical contexts for understanding Raeburn’s portraitureEvans, Godfrey
taste, Raeburn, Scotland, collecting, Enlightenment, patronage, art, and portraiture
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Journal article
Finlaggan Up-date
Caldwell, David H
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Book
Islay, Jura and Colonsay: a historical guide. 2nd edition
The story of Islay, Jura and Colonsay is one of the most fascinating amongst all the Hebrides. They have had substantial human occupation since earliest times and man has left many relics across the islands, from tools and artefacts of mesolithic times to the modern-day distilleries of Islay and Jura....Caldwell, David H
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Book chapter
Colin Reid. An appreciation
Watban, Rose
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Research report
Fieldwork at Birnie, Moray, 1998
In 1996 a number of Roman silver coins were discovered by metal detecting at Dykeside, near Birnie, Moray. The findspot lies in an area of a later prehistoric settlement known for cropmarks, on a gravel terrace. It is also within 400 m of Birnie Kirk, one of the earliest Christian...Hunter, Fraser
Scotland, Birnie , Bronze Age , Romans , Antiquities , Iron Age , and Middle Ages
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Research report
Excavations at Birnie, Moray, 1999.
Excavations continued in 1999 on an Iron Age settlement at Birnie, Moray, where metal-detecting had recovered a disturbed Roman coin hoard. Earlier work had shown the settlement was in part contemporary with the coins, and it may have been the residence of a powerful local chieftain who had contacts with...Hunter, Fraser
Scotland, Iron Age, Birnie, Antiquities, Bronze Age, Romans, and Middle Ages