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Catalogue Contact Policies About Search Welcome to the Society’s collection of open access e-books about Scotland’s past. Spotlights The Moon and the Bonfire On the Fringe of Neolithic Europe The Traprain Law Environs Project The Moon and the Bonfire Spotlight This volume presents the result of three excavations and two field walking surveys in Aberdeenshire intended to shed new light on the character, chronology and structural development of the distinctive recumbent stone circles which are such a feature of north-east Scotland. Read More On the Fringe of Neolithic Europe Spotlight One of the two chambered cairns built as burial monuments on the tiny Holm of Papa Westray is the subject of this book. First excavated in the nineteenth century, and again in a more scientific manner in the 1980s, it has shed surprising light on life, death and ritual in Neolithic times. Read More The Traprain Law Environs Project Spotlight ’This collaborative programme of research represents an exemplary landmark, and all involved deserve support and congratulation.’ †Dennis W Harding ( Antiquity ) Read More New Releases On the Fringe of Neolithic Europe: Excavation of a Chambered Cairn on the Holm of Papa Westray, Orkney Anna Ritchie (ed) January 19, 2024 The Moon and the Bonfire: An Investigation of Three Stone Circles in North-East Scotland Richard Bradley (ed) December 15, 2023 The Traprain Law Environs Project: Fieldwork and Excavations 2000–2004 Colin Haselgrove (ed) May 26, 2023 The Antiquarian Rediscovery of the Antonine Wall Lawrence Keppie (Author) April 28, 2023 Rhum: Mesolithic and Later Sites at Kinloch, Excavations 1984–86 Caroline R Wickham-Jones (ed) November 11, 2022 Anatomy of an Iron Age Roundhouse: The Cnip Wheelhouse Excavations, Lewis Ian Armit (ed) September 30, 2022 Darkness Visible: The Sculptor’s Cave, Covesea, from the Bronze Age to the Picts Ian Armit (ed), Lindsey Büster (ed) June 15, 2022 ’Remember Now Thy Creator’: Scottish Girls’ Samplers, 1700–1872 Naomi E A Tarrant (Author) March 11, 2022 Culduthel: An Iron Age Craftworking Centre in North-East Scotland Candy Hatherley (ed), Ross Murray (ed) February 18, 2022 The Fortification of the Firth of Forth 1880–1977: ‘The most powerful naval fortress in the British Empire’ Gordon J Barclay, Ron Morris (Author) January 14, 2022 A Fragmented Masterpiece: Recovering the Biography of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Cross-Slab Heather F James (ed), Isabel Henderson (ed), Sally M Foster (ed), Siân Jones (ed) November 5, 2021 Bearsden: A Roman Fort on the Antonine Wall David J Breeze (ed) May 29, 2020 Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness: Changing Ideologies in North-East Scotland, Sixth to Sixteenth Century AD Martin Carver (ed), Justin Garner-Lahire (ed), Cecily Spall (ed) June 28, 2019 The Scottish Antiquarian Tradition: Essays to mark the bicentenary of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 1780–1980 A S Bell (ed) June 27, 2019 signup Get e-book alerts Sign up here to receive email alerts when new e-books are published. Browse New Releases Categories Palaeolithic Mesolithic Neolithic Bronze Age Roman & Iron Age Medieval Modern joinus Join The Society The Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland are a diverse group of people with one common passion – Scotland’s past. Find out how to become a Fellow. ourpublications Our publications Archaeologia Scotica Proceedings (PSAS) Reports (SAIR) Print books Information For Readers For Authors For Librarians Published by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, registered charity no. SC 010440, National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, United Kingdom TERMS AND CONDITIONS | PRIVACY POLICY | PUBLICATION POLICIES Connect with us: © 2023...