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Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Glenbuchat Castle
Glenbuchat Castle 16th century Z plan tower house built by John Gordon from random rubble and was built in a Z-shape with four turrets. It was owned by the Gordons until 1738, when it was forfeited by John Gordon for his Jacobite sympathies
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The Picts
Class II symbol stone. The cross on face has been destroyed. On the reverse are a mounted female figure accompanied by other mounted figures,musicians and animals in a detailed hunting scene. A mirror and comb lie to the left and are surmounted by a crescent and V-rod :a double-disc and Z-rod are seen in a…Continue…
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The Picts
Details from the Class 1 symbol stone from the Knowe of Burrian in Harray, now on display at the Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. This stone, datable to the 6th – 7th centuries, was discovered in 1936 during a partial excavation in a ruined passageway of what is probably a Broch. It is a rectangular flagstone…Continue…
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The Picts
This sculptured stone slab was found at Bullion near Dundee while making the new by-pass road. It is 6’2″ long, 2’5″ broad and 5 3/4″ thick, and is of red sandstone. On one face is the figure of a bearded man on horseback, carrying a sword and circular shield, and drinking out of an ox…Continue…
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Metal Detecting Online articles involving the Portable Antiquities Scheme
A Day in the Life of a Finds Liaison Officer By Sally Worrell Sally Worrell, Finds Liaison Officer for the Hampshire area, explains how her role plays a vital part in building up a picture of our national heritage.
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Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Dalhousie Castle
Dalhousie Castle Originally built in the 13th C. and unsuccessfully besieged by King henry IV of England in 1400. It was extended in distinctive pink sandstone around 1450 and further enlarged in 1633 to form a Renaissance house for Lord Ramsay, the Earl of Dalhousie
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Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Blackness Castle
Blackness Castle Blackness castle once guarded the village of Blackness when it was the seaport of Linlithgow. This is a 15th century keep and courtyard castle . In 1537 work began to thicken the exposed walls with provision for defending guns which transformed Blackness into one of the most effective artillery fortifications in Scotland. It…Continue…
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The Picts
NH 984 576 Pictish Cross-Slab: Ogam-Inscribed A Class II upright cross-slab of grey sandstone – this was found in 1781 during excavations for foundations for Dyke Church which was constructed behind its pre-Reformation predecessor. The stone was erected in Dyke village in commemoration of Rodney’ss victory over the Count de Grasse (Battle of the Saints…Continue…
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Time Team Dig – Leven, Fife – Bronze age cemetery
The excavations undertaken by Fife Council at Holly Road, Leven, have resulted in the identification and preservation (by record) of one of the most important Bronze Age archaeological sites in Scotland. Indeed, the results of this excavation will considerably extend our understanding of life in Bronze Age Scotland. As Dr Alison Sheridan (Keeper of Archaeology,…Continue…
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Time Team Dig – Leven, Fife – Bronze age cemetery
The excavations revealed a previously unrecorded Early Bronze Age cemetery (c. 4,000 years old) enclosed within a ditch. The cemetery contained 11 cist burials (stone graves) and at least one unaccompanied cremation burial of possible Neolithic date (c.5,000 years old). The acidity of the soil resulted in poor preservation of human skeletal material, however, significant…Continue…
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Time Team Dig – Leven, Fife – Bronze age cemetery
Local members of the community were invited to watch the excavations in progress and many local people actually assisted the excavations on-site, particularly after the departure of the Time Team. Educational visits and parties of young people were invited to the site to learn first-hand about the techniques of archaeological investigation, and more importantly, to…Continue…
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Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Balvaird Castle
Balvaird Castle Balvaird Castle was built in the late 15th century by Sir Andrew Murray . It is a stepped L plan tower house with a corbelled parapet and a square stair tower in the re-entrant angle.The Murray and Barclay arms can be seen above the doorway in the stair tower. The tower house is…Continue…
