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Review – Raasay: the ACFA archaeological surveys 1995-2009
Amy Gazin-SchwartzAssociation of Certificated Field Archaeologists, £15ISBN 978-1999844141Review Gavin MacGregor The Isle of Raasay is in sharp focus in Scottish culture. It is the place whose cleared...
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Review – The Romans in Scotland and the Battle of Mons Graupius
Simon ForderAmberley Publishing, £20 ISBN 978-1445690551 Review Andrew Tibbs This book offers an alternative view on the well-trodden path of attempting to identify the site of the fabled last stand...
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Bronze Age burials beside Loch Ness
Analysis of Neolithic finds and a Bronze Age cemetery uncovered near Drumnadrochit in the Scottish Highlands (see CA 346) has enhanced understanding of the site’s prehistory. The beaker from Cist 2....
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Home Guard Auxiliary bunker discovered
An auxiliary bunker built during the Second World War has been discovered during deforestation work in southern Scotland. 3D scanning was used to record the bunker [Image: Forestry and Land Scotland...
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Review – The King in the North: the Pictish realms of Fortríu and Ce
Gordon Noble and Nicholas Evans Birlinn, £14.99 ISBN 978-1780275512 Review Ian Ralston This is both a useful, and a slightly curious, compendium. Its strength lies in providing overviews of continuing...
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Review – Early Medieval Settlement in Upland Perthshire: Excavations at Lair,...
David Strachan, David Sneddon, and Richard Tipping Archaeopress, $40 ISBN 978-1789693157 Review Piers Dixon I can strongly recommend this handsomely produced monograph to all those archaeologists with...
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Review – Into the Wildwoods: explore the Mesolithic in Scotland’s native...
Kim Biddulph, Matt Ritchie, and Caroline Wickham-Jones Forestry and Land Scotland, FreeISBN 978-1916016019Review ABDownload from:...
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The problem of the Picts
Searching for a lost people in northern Scotland The Picts are a fascinating but archaeologically elusive people who thrived in parts of Scotland in the 4th to 10th centuries AD. What has recent...
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Review – The Antonine Wall: papers in honour of Professor Lawrence Keppie
David J Breeze and William S Hanson (eds)Archaeopress, £30ISBN 978-1789694505Review Andrew Tibbs Undoubtedly, Professor Lawrence Keppie has made some of the most significant contributions to our...
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Review – Stirling’s Military Heritage
Gregor StewartAmberley Publishing, £14.99ISBN 978-1445688909Review Amy Brunskill In this volume, his second on the military heritage of Scotland’s cities, Gregor Stewart presents the history of...
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A UNIQUE GLIMPSE INTO THE IRON AGE
Excavating Clachtoll Broch A decade of investigations at Clachtoll Broch, Ayssnt, has given vivid insights into the life and dramatic end of an Iron Age community in highland Scotland. CREDIT: Forge...
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Prehistoric settlement uncovered in Aberdeenshire
Overlooking the complex series of Bronze or Iron Age structures uncovered near Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire. CREDIT: Cameron Archaeology Evidence for an extensive settlement, possibly dating to either...
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Review – Classical Caledonia: Roman history and myth in 18th-century Scotland
Alan MontgomeryEdinburgh University Press, £75ISBN 978-1474445641Review Andrew Tibbs Classical Caledonia explores the antiquarian rediscovery of Scotland’s Roman remains, and how these have influenced...
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Iona in the Viking Age: laying a ‘zombie narrative’ to rest
The traditional story of Iona’s early medieval monastery ends in tragedy and bloodshed, with the religious community wiped out by vicious Viking raiders. Increasingly, though, the archaeological and...
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King’s Park
Exposing the paved floor! (Credit: Murray Cook) The King’s Park fort is part of a long term, relaxed and open series of project to explore the Late Prehistoric settlement patterns of the Forth Valley....
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Dig Glengarnock Castle
Join DigVentures and help to excavate a ruined medieval castle in Scotland. (Credit: DigVentures) Glengarnock Castle lies just two miles from the town of Kilbirne, and only twenty-two miles from the...
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