• Time Team Dig – Finlaggan

    These are details of digs by Time Team including website links and programme details The island of Islay, off the west coast of Scotland and within sight of Ireland on a clear day, was at the centre of the kingdom of the Lords of the Isles for 500 years. In 1156 the King of Argyllshire…Continue…

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  • The Picts

    NO 522 555 An upright cross-slab of Old Red Sandstone, 7ft 6ins high by 4ft 2ins wide at the bottom and tapering to 2ft 11 1/2ins wide at the top, by 8ins thick. The ornament is partly incised and partly relief, consisting of a cross edged by spirals, and on the reverse the two-legged rectangle,…Continue…

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  • Class I symbol stone Aberlemno, Angus

    NO 522 559 This stands adjacent to the public road 245m North of Aberlemno Church. On one face there are a serpent, a double disc with Z-rod, a mirror and a comb; near the bottom on the back there are six cup-marks.

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  • Metal Detecting -PAS Information pack

    One of the recent developments that the Portable Antiquities Scheme has implemented, is the public forum. The effect that the forum has had on the Scheme has been immense, with the formulation of an information pack for detectorists, field walkers, amateur archaeologists and other interested parties. This has been generated through input from many people…Continue…

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  • Metal Detecting Downloads and leaflets

    Artefact Record Sheet (PDF format)Artefact Record Sheet – completed example(PDF format) These have been road tested by Detectorists – some find it useful – It causes you to stop and think a while, put those thought’s on paper and carry on – whilst some prefer to take a small note book to record details to…Continue…

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  • Time Team Dig – Leven, Fife  – Bronze age cemetery

    Since the completion of field excavations in mid-August 2002, work has continued on the post-excavation analysis. This has involved the re-examination and interpretation of the all of the observations made during the excavations as well as the detailed scientific analysis of all of the finds made, and of the environmental samples taken.   Samples of…Continue…

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  • Leven, Fife Bronze age cemetery

     I was asked, as Scottish Branch rep. for the Young Archaeologists Club Scottish Network to arrange visits for 40 young archaeologists to visit over two of the three days filming of the Time Team in Leven, Fife.   The children had a wonderful visit which more than met with their expectations, the crew couldn’t have been…Continue…

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  • Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Orchardton Tower House

    Orchardton Tower House Dumfries and Galloway The only free standing circular tower house in Scotland. It is 4 storeys high with a parapet and a walk. Substantial remains of barmkin building survive. The tower was built in 1436 by John Cairns

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  • Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: St Marys Old Parish Church, Dairsie

    St Marys Old Parish Church, Dairsie Archbishop John Spottiswood owned the castle here for a time. There has been a parish church adjacent to the castle since at least the 1160’s, but in 1621 the archbishop decided to rebuild it as a model of what a church fitted for reformed episcoplian worship should be. The…Continue…

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  • Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Collessie Church

    Collessie Church Rebuilt in 1839 by RR Dickson, Collessie Church sits on top of and ancient parish church. This is a T-shaped turreted building which sits at the centre of the small settlement of Collessie which is now a conservation area containing a number of well preserved 17th, 18th and 19th century weavers cottages

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  • Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Canonbie Parish Church

    Canonbie Parish Church Canonbie Parish Church 1821-2 by William Atkinson – this is a rather heavy castellated Gothic style building with an interesting churchyard. Canonbie is in south east Dumfries and Galloway

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  • Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: St Devenic's Church , Creich

    St Devenic’s Church , Creich The small village of Creich lies in the hills of north Fife, to the northeast of Brunton. This is the ruined 14th century St Devenic’s Church of Creich with its 16th-century aisle. It is surrounded by the graveyard and is in the immediate vicinity of the castle. In the interior…Continue…

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