Welcome to the Society's collection of open access e-books about Scotland's past.

Spotlights

  • The Moon and the Bonfire: An Investigation of Three Stone Circles in North-East Scotland

    The Moon and the Bonfire

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    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.

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  • On the Fringe of Neolithic Europe: Excavation of a Chambered Cairn on the Holm of Papa Westray, Orkney

    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.

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  • The Traprain Law Environs Project: Fieldwork and Excavations 2000–2004

    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)

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New Releases

Cover for A Fragmented Masterpiece: Recovering the Biography of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Cross-Slab A Fragmented Masterpiece: Recovering the Biography of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Cross-Slab
Heather F James, Isabel Henderson, Sally M Foster, Siân Jones
November 5, 2021