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Metal Detecting Self Recording with the Portable Antiquities Scheme
Self Recording with the Portable Antiquities Scheme The actual concept of allowing members of the public enter data onto the database, was one of the requirements of the Scheme’s funding. This aspect of the scheme is in the very first steps of it’s evolution and will only improve. If people are interested, contact your local…Continue…
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Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Spynie Palace
Spynie Palace Morayshire Residence of the Bishops of Moray from 14th century to 1686. The oldest part of the castle is the hall house along the south side. Much of the design of the mouldings seems French or English rather than Scottish. As the castle was erected while the nearby Elgin Cathedral was being built…Continue…
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Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Kellie Castle
Kellie Castle 16th century E plan tower house Kellie Castle is one of the finest Tower Houses in Scotland. It was probably spared any improvements by the Victorians as it was dissociated in the late 18th century and was virtually abandoned and left to ruin. In 1878 it was taken over by the Lorimer family…Continue…
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Our Past History.com
Prehistoric Sites Edin’s Hall NT 772603 Broch Bow NT 461417 Broch Torwoodlee NT 465384 Broch Tappoch NS 833849 Broch Coldoch NS 696981 Broch Cockburn Law NT 765597 Cairn Dirrington Little Law NT 686530 Cairn North Muir NT 105503 Cairn Hill of Airthrey NS 796981 Cairn Tullo’s Hill NJ 951031 Cairn Tullo’s Hill NJ 957036…Continue…
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Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Caerlaverock Castle
Caerlaverock Castle 13th century fortress surrounded by moat and was built by Sir Herbert Maxwell. It is one of the few castles in Scotland with a protective moat. It has been attacked many times, in 1300 a garrison of 3000 troops of Edward I of England laying siege to it; the sixty men inside held…Continue…
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The Picts
Today when we talk about the Picts we are referring to the ‘Historical Picts’, those Iron Age people living in the present Scotland and who had come to the attention of classical writers after their encounter with the Romans in the 1st. century AD. This was not always the case however. Three decades ago discussion…Continue…
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The Picts and sculptured stones
The Picts were the people who lived north of the rivers Forth and Clyde from the late 3rd century until the mid 9th century AD. There is very little archaeological evidence for the Picts and much of what we do know about them has come from the study of their art. This is mostly on…Continue…
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Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Craigmillar Castle
Craigmillar Castle A building has been on this site from the 13th century. The current castle was built in the mid-15th century. King James V stayed here in 1517. The castle suffered at the hands of the Earl of Hertford during the English invasion of 1544. Mary, Queen of Scots , sought seclusion there after…Continue…
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The Picts
The cross face has panels of interlace and fantastic figures and on the reverse is a mounted figure to the left of a double-disc above a step symbol. It meaures 5’9″ high by 3’4″ at base tapering to 2’9″ at the top by 5″ thick. (This slab is so like those from Aberlemno (NO 522…Continue…
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The Picts
Class I symbol stone bearing a stag above a rectangle The symbol stone found in digging the knoll called Cnoc-an-Fruich, a place near Grantown. It is a slab of mica schist of rectangular shape 4ft by 10 inches by 9 inches thick, incised on one face.
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Metal Detecting Finds Liaison Officers – Contact details
Finds Liaison Officers – Contact details Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Julian Watters Finds Liaison Officer Verulamium Museum, St Michaels, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3 4SW T: 01727 751 826 F: 01727 859919 E: [email protected] Berkshire & Oxfordshire Kate Sutton Finds Liaison Officer West Berkshire Heritage Service, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 5AS T: 01635 30511 F:…Continue…
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Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Grandtully Castle
Grandtully Castle Grandtully Castle is located to the west of the settlement of Grandtully in Perth and Kinross. A former stronghold of the Stewarts, the castle dates from the 15th century with later additions.
