Paperback book `Picts, Gaels and Scots` by Sally M. Foster.
Overview of the Picts and Gaels and the establishment of a single, unified kingdon known as Alba.
De-accessioned 21.3.2026.
1998.321.1
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1999.314.9
Hardback book `Alba ri linn Bhrus` by Mairi Spankie.
An illustrated history of Robert the Bruce and his descendants for schoolchildren or Gaelic learners.
De-accessioned 1.3.2026.
2000.122.8
Hardback book `History of Argyll` by Colin M.MacDonald.
The history of Argyll from the time of Dalriada up to the beginning of the 16th century.
1997.274.13
Paperback book `The Celtic and Scandinavian Religions` by J. A. MacCulloch.
The complexities of Celtic and Scandinavian religious beliefs.
De-accessioned 20.3.2026.
2004.36.6
Copy of letter dated 8/3/2004 to Katinka Stentoft from Alasdair Sinclair of Brock.
Information about Norse settlements of Tiree and difficulties in identifying them: the effects of wind-blown sand on the landscape, the scarcity of stone for building, the frequent winter flooding and the need for ditching, and the road-building programme during World War II (with three pages of photocopied photos). (For Katinka Stentoft`s settlement survey see 2004.40.1)
1999.291.15
Paperback book `Scotland`s Hidden History` by Ian Armit.
Descriptions of 100 of Scotland`s most exciting and accessible prehistoric and early historic monuments.
De-accessioned 21.3.2026.
1997.272.9
Paperback book `Dun Mor Vaul` by Dr Euan W. Mackie.
Account of the excavation of the broch at Vaul by Dr Euan Mackie in 1962-1964.
1999.291.12
Hardback book `Landscape with Lake Dwellings` by Ian Morrison.
The results of a survey of crannogs in Loch Awe and Tay and a re-interpretation of 19th and 20th century excavations.
1999.291.14
Paperback book `The Archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles` by Ian Armit.
The hsitory of human settlement in Skye and the Western Isles from the first hunter-gatherers to the Clearances, based on the results of new excavations and surveys and reassessments of earlier work.
1999.291.11
Paperback book `Brochs of Scotland` by J. N. G. Ritchie.
Description of some of the Iron Age brochs of Scotland.
De-accessioned 21.3.2026.