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Journal article
The syrphids of Serra do Courel, Northern Spain and description of a new Cheilosia Meigen species (Diptera: Syrphidae)
The syrphids (Syrphidae) of Serra do Courel, a mountainous locality of just over 20,000ha at the west end of the Cantabrian Mountains, northern Spain are poorly known. The Scottish based, Malloch Society visited the locality in May 2012 and collected a total of 462 specimens of 98 syrphid species and... -
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First British records of ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ Subalpine Warblers
The recent proposal to reorganise the taxonomy of the Subalpine Warbler complex, and the identification of the first British ‘Subalpine Warbler’ (St Kilda, June 1894) as a Moltoni’s Warbler, led the BOU to review other early records and determine the first British records of both Eastern and Western Subalpine Warblers....Collinson, J M ; McGowan, R Y ; Irestedt, M
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Book chapter
Reconnecting with rural life: a 1950s dairy herd and other animals
The issue of keeping and presentation of live animals in agricultural and open-air museum has always been important, however, so far largely underestimated. The Szreniawa Conference on live animals is the first voice in the field of not only Polish but also international agricultural museology. The topic was consulted with...Edwards, Elaine
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Geographical variation in the clouded leopard, Neofelis nebulosa, reveals two species instead of one
The clouded leopard, Neofelis nebulosa, is an endangered semiarboreal felid with a wide distribution in tropical forests of southern and southeast Asia, including the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in the Indonesian archipelago . In common with many larger animal species, it displays morphological variation within its wide geographical range...Kitchener, Andrew C ; Beaumont, Mark A. ; Richardson, Douglas
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Journal article
The ceramic history of West Pans Part 1
The West Pans ceramic material, listed described and photographed on the enclosed disk has been assigned to the National Museums of Scotland and was catalogued using accession numbers (MES1.1 to 1132). The majority of the ceramic material was recovered during a small rescue excavation funded by Historic Scotland and the...Forbes, Sheila ; Haggarty, George
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Journal article
Review of - Mirror of morality: Chinese narrative iIllustration and Confucian ideology
Mirror of Morality takes an interdisciplinary look at an important form of pictorial art produced during two millennia of Chinese imperial rule. Ideas about individual morality and state ideology were based on the ancient teachings of Confucius with modifications by later interpreters and government institutions. Throughout the imperial period, members...McLoughlin, Kevin
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Journal article
The ceramic history of West Pans Part 2
The West Pans ceramic material, listed described and photographed on the enclosed disk has been assigned to the National Museums of Scotland and was catalogued using accession numbers (MES1.1 to 1132). The majority of the ceramic material was recovered during a small rescue excavation funded by Historic Scotland and the...Forbes, Sheila ; Haggarty, George
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Journal article
First record of a polyplacophoran from the Southern Uplands of Scotland
An intermediate sclerite of a paleoloricate chiton (Polyplacophora) collected from the Kirkcolm Formation (Ordovician, Lower Katian) of Kilbucho in the Scottish Borders (formerly Peeblesshire), Scotland represents the first record of the class in the Southern Uplands. The single Kilbucho specimen is morphologically distinct from documented taxa, and is described and...Candela, Yves ; Cherns, Lesley ; Troalen, Lore
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Journal article
Contributions to the study of the Holarctic fauna of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). I. Introduction and first results of transatlantic comparisons
Specimens of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from both sides of the Holarctic region (Nearctic and Palaearctic) were sampled for DNA barcoding and examined morphologically. Two species are recorded for the first time for the Nearctic: Apanteles brunnistigma Abdinbekova, and Microgaster raschkiellae Shaw. Another European species, Apanteles xanthostigma (Haliday), previously introduced as...Fernandez-Triana, J ; Shaw, Mark R ; Cardinal, Sophie ; Mason, P G
morphology, Microgastrinae, Palaearctic, DNA barcoding, Holarctic, and Nearctic
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Journal article
New Bornean carnivore’ is most likely a little known flying squirrel
We analysed two camera-trap photos of an alleged new species of carnivore from Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. Comparisons of the features seen in the photos with morphological features of 17 similar-looking species from the region suggest that the animal is not a new species of carnivore, as had been widely speculated,...Meijaard, Erik ; Kitchener, Andrew C ; Smeenk, Chris
petaurista, new mammal, civet, camera trap, Borneo, and Aeromys
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Journal article
Illustrated notes on the biology of two European species of Euceros Gravenhorst (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Eucerotinae)
Observational notes and photographs taken in the course of rearing Euceros albitarsus Curtis and E. pruinosus (Gravenhorst) in captivity from the egg stage are given. The bizarre biology of these obligate hyperparasitoids involves a planidial larval stage that attaches to caterpillars or sawfly larvae, followed by a short phase of...Shaw, Mark R
hyperparasitoid, Euceros albitarsus, life history, Planidium, host relations, and Euceros pruinosus
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Journal article
Western Palaearctic Oedicephalini and Phaeogenini (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) in the National Museums of Scotland, with distributional data including 28 species new to Britain, rearing records, and descriptions of two new species of Aethecerus Wesmael and one of Diadromus Wesmael
An account is given of approximately 3,250 western Palaearctic specimens, comprising 110 determined species, of the tribes Oedicephalini and Phaeogenini in the National Museums of Scotland. Distributional and phenological data are given for all species, and rearing records are provided for about 50, although not always with the host’s identity...Diller, Erich ; Shaw, Mark R
Phaeogenini, British Isles., Ichneumoninae, hosts, Lepidoptera, parasitoids, Oedicephalini, distribution, phenology, taxonomy, and Ichneumonidae
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Journal article
Conservation of a turtle-shell mask
Roberts, Bronwen
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Conference paper (published)
Digging Birnie, 1998-2009: The story (so far) of an Iron Age power centre
Hunter, Fraser
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Journal article
The beads. In: M. Johnson ‘Excavation of two Early Bronze Age short cists and a prehistoric pit at Lindsayfield, near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire'
Two short cists of Early Bronze Age date, containing prehistoric flint artefacts and shale/cannel coal beads, were discovered during topsoiling operations for the Aberdeen to Lochside Natural Gas Pipeline, to the south of Lindsayfield, near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire. Cremated human bone from one of the cists was radiocarbon dated to the...Johnson, M ; Sheridan, J A
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Book chapter
The Gristhorpe coffin and its contents
In July 1834 excavation of a barrow at Gristhorpe, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, recovered an intact, waterlogged, hollowed-out oak coffin containing a perfectly preserved Bronze Age skeleton that had been wrapped in an animal skin and buried with worked flints, a bronze dagger with a whalebone pommel, and a bark vessel...Sheridan, J A ; Needham, Stuart ; O'Connor, Sonia ; Melton, Nigel ; Janaway, Rob …
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Book chapter
Prehistoric pottery
Excavations and surveys adjacent to Hirsel House, Coldstream, have revealed a remarkably detailed history of a proprietory church and its cemetery for a period when the parochial structure in Scotland was in course of development, and when very little is known about the fate of estate churches after they were...Sheridan, J A
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Conference paper (published)
Cybraphon: collecting the physical or the digital at National Museums Scotland?
In 2013, National Museums Scotland collected Cybraphon, an interactive autonomous internetconnected robot band, created in 2009 by artists’ collective and musicians FOUND. Cybraphon obsessively Googles itself every 15 seconds to see how popular it is. All Cybraphon activity rests in the hands of the online community and as such provides...Taubman, Alison
Cybraphon. Device art. Social media interaction. Digital culture. Museum collecting.
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Book
Ming: the Golden Empire produced by Nomad Exhibitions in association with Nanjing Museum
The book of the exhibition showing at the National Museum of Scotland 27 June-19 October 2014. A collection of original Ming artefacts from Nanjing Museum, including Chinese National Treasures, are on display in the only UK showing of this internationally significant exhibition. The exhibition - and the book - showcase...McLoughlin, Kevin
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Research report
Archaeological excavations in St Giles' Cathedral Edinburgh, 1981–93
The report describes the results of excavations in 1981, ahead of development within the South Choir Aisle of St Giles’ Cathedral, and subsequent archaeological investigations within the kirk in the 1980s and 1990s. Three main phases of activity from the 12th to the mid-16th centuries were identified, with only limited...Collard, Mark ; Lawson, John A ; Holmes, Nicholas
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Journal article
Bronze Age pottery (and a spindle whorl). In M. Carver, J. Barrett, J. Downes and J. Hooper : Pictish byre-houses at Pitcarmick and their landscape: investigations 1993–5
'Pitcarmick-type' houses were identified by the Royal Commission in north-east Perthshire in 1988 and published in their survey of 1990. Long and narrow with rounded ends, they seemed to occur in a sequence between prehistoric roundhouses and medieval and post-medieval dwellings. They were therefore provisionally assigned to the later 1st...Carver, Martin ; Barrett, John ; Downes, Jane ; Hooper, Janet
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Journal article
National treasure looks to future to preserve the past
Landmark museum building goes from strength to strength, with a £14m third phase of restoration to be opened in 2016, says Gordon RintoulRintoul, Gordon
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Book chapter
Bronze Age tree-trunk coffin graves in Britain
In July 1834 excavation of a barrow at Gristhorpe, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, recovered an intact, waterlogged, hollowed-out oak coffin containing a perfectly preserved Bronze Age skeleton that had been wrapped in an animal skin and buried with worked flints, a bronze dagger with a whalebone pommel, and a bark vessel...Parker Pearson, Mike ; Sheridan, J A ; Needham, Stuart
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Research report
ScARF Neolithic panel report
Sheridan, J A ; Brophy, Kenny
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Journal article
Goldwork in Ancient Egypt: workshop practices at Qurneh in the 2nd Intermediate Period
Described by Petrie as ‘the largest group of goldwork that had left Egypt’, the jewellery from the intact burial of an adult and child discovered at Qurneh in 1908 is the most important group of gold objects excavated in Egypt dating from the 2nd Intermediate Period (c. 1800–1550 BC). This...Troalen, Lore ; Tate, Jim ; Guerra, Maria Filomena
Recycling, Gold alloys, Polychromy, Solder, Egypt, and Qurneh
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Journal article
Synoptic revision of the Ordovician brachiopods of the Barr and Lower Ardmillan groups of the Girvan area, Scotland
The generic assignments of some 200 Ordovician brachiopod species in the Barr and Lower Ardmillan (upper Darriwilian–lower Katian) succession, Girvan are reviewed and, where necessary, modified. This key database on the distribution and occurrence of a Laurentian-marginal brachiopod assemblage has featured in many analyses of global biogeography for the period...Candela, Yves ; Harper, David A T
Laurentia, Sandbian, Katian, and Darriwilian
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Journal article
The fauna and flora of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, UK Volume I: introduction, history and geology
The Insect Limestone has long been known as a source of exquisitely preserved insects and other arthropods. It occurs on the north side of the Isle of Wight and is latest Eocene in age. A summary of the history of the study of the Insect Limestone is given, along with...Ross, Andrew ; Self, Anglea
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Historical textile dyeing with Genista tinctoria L.: a comprehensive study by UPLC-MS/MS analysis
Polyphenolic components from Genista species have been well characterised because of their potential as antioxidants and as therapeutic leads; however, the identification of dyer's greenweed (Genista tinctoria L.) in historical textiles has been the subject of only limited studies. This paper presents a comprehensive UPLC-PDA MS/MS study of reference and...Troalen, Lore ; Phillips, Ashely S ; Peggie, David A ; Barran, Perdita E ; Hulme, Alison N
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Book chapter
The jet belt slider, Movers Lane
Archaeological investigations carried out during improvements to five key junctions along a stretch of the A13 trunk road through the East London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham have revealed evidence for activity spanning the Mesolithic through to the post-Roman period. Regionally important evidence of Neolithic activity...Sheridan, J A
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Book chapter
Contextualising Kilmartin: building a narrative for developments in western Scotland and beyond, from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age
Although this volume is a tribute to Richard Bradley, its strength lies in the range and depth of papers that provide new information, ideas, and interpretations on many familiar archaeological themes. This volume takes, as its basis, the archaeological themes that Richard has developed through his career and has been...Sheridan, J A
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Journal article
An Upper Llandovery Konservat-Lagerstatte in a depositional context: the Pentland Hills Eurypterid Bed, Midlothian
Re-excavation and detailed logging of the sedimentary sequence which includes the Eurypterid Bed on the Gutterford Burn, Pentland Hills, Midlothian, has clarified the depositional setting of this Silurian Konservat–Lagerstätte. The relative positions of the Gutterford Burn limestones, beds yielding dendroid graptolites and the Eurypterid Bed itself have been identified. Clay...Anderson, Lyall I ; Clarkson, E N K ; Stewart, Sarah E ; Mitchell, D
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Book
Francis Watkins and the Dollond telescope patent controversy
Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London. Working from original documents, Brian Gee has uncovered the life and times of an optical instrument maker, who - at first glance - was not among the most prominent in his...Gee, Brian
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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