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Volume 129 - Year 1999

published by the Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers St, Edinburgh --  ISSN 0081-1564
a sample of the contents:

Logboats in History: West Highland evidence - by Hugh Cheape

A relatively large number of logboats is known in Scotland, with its comparatively extensive peat and wetland conditions - and a national survey of longboat discoveries has been published (Mowat, 1996 - The Longboats of Scotland, pub Oxbow). . . . Coit, an obsolete term for a tree, is the name highlanders apply to the simple vessel formed of a hollow log (Logan The Scottish Gael 1876 II, p 186) . In the West Highlands of Ross-shire, the Courich was very commonly used, and I know some people who have seen one. In my day it had given place to a sort of Canoe called Ammir, ie Trough. This was nothing more than the hollowed trunk of a great tree. I have been a passenger crossing a river in an Ammir, tho' I did not much covet the situation (per J.M. Joass 1881, Note on the Curach and Ammir in Ross-shire, Proc Soc Antiq v125, p 179-180) . . .The evidence of the living language, its regional variations, its literature and traditions extends the chronological and cultural significance of logboats to convey a general, if sometimes shadowy, impression of a prehistoric craft surviving in the West Highlands &endash; especially in the "rough bounds" of Moidart and Arisaig &endash; into the 18th century and living memory.

                                -  Extracted from selected portions of the lecture, pp 851- 860

• Meldon Bridge: a centre of the third millenium BC in Peebleshire
  • Stephren Speak & Colin Burgess - p 1
• St Kilda: quarries, fields and prehistoric agriculture
  • Andrew Fleming & Mark Edmonds - p 119
• An early metal assemblage from Dail na Caraidh, Inverness-shire, and its context
  • John C Barrrett & Robert B Gourlay - p 161
• Food for thought: a survey of burnt mounds of Shetland and excavations at Tangwick
  • Hazel Moore & Graeme Wilson - p 203
• A later prehistoric settlement at Balloan park, Inverness
  • Johnathan Wordsworth - p 239
• Excavation of two cairns, a cist and associated features at Sanaigmhor Warren, Islay, Argyll & Bute
  • Murray Cook - p 251
• An Atlantic roundhouse at Durcha, Sutherland
  • Andrew Dunwell - p 281
• Edin's Hall Fort: broch and settlement, Berwickshire, Scottish Borders : recent fieldwork and new perceptions
  • Andrew Dunwell - p 303
• Excavation of an Iron Age timber structure beside the Candle Stane recumbent stone circle, Aberdeenshire
  • Kirsty Cameron - p 359
• Evidence for extramural settlement north of the Roman Fort at Newstead (Trimontium), Roxburghshire
  • Simon Clarke & Alicia Wise - p 373
• Further engraved gemstones from Newstead (Trimontium) Roxburghshire
  • J Walter Elliot & Martin Henig - p 393
• The Twentieth Legion and the history of the Antonine Wall reconsidered
  • Vivien G Swan - p 399
• Excavations directed by J D Leach and J J Wilkes on the site of the Roman Fortress at Carpow, Perthshire, 1964-79
  • J N Dore and J J Wilkes - p 481
• The abandonment of souterrains: evolution, catastrophe or dislocation?
  • Ian Armit - p 577
• A missing figure on slab fragment no 2 from Monifeith, Angus and a'Chill Cross, Canna, and some implications of the development of a variant form of the Virgin's hairstyle and dress in early Medieval Scotland
  • Ross Trench-Jellicoe - p 597
• The Burgh of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire; archaelogical evidence from a medieval lordship
  • Stephen P Carter p 649
• The silgillography of the Ragman roll, AD1296
  • Bruce A McAndrew - p 663
• Excavations of a medieval cemetery at Skaill House, and a cist in the Bay of Skaill, Sandwick, Orkney
  • Heather F James - p 753
• Dunfermline: from 'saracen' castle to 'poulous munufacturing royal 'burrow'
  • David Perry - p 779
• Ornamental structures in the medieval gardens of Scotland
  • Scott Cooper - p 817
• Post medieval spindle whorls in the Northern Isles: examples made with reworked potsherds
  • Nigel D Melton - p 841
• A previously undescribed Scottish Communication token from Keithhall, Aberdeenshire
  • David M Bertie
• Logboats in History; West Highland evidence
  • Hugh Cheape - p 851
• The Scottish Mint after the recoinage, 1709 - 1836
  • Athol L Murray p 861
• A Romantic folly to Romanatic folly: the Glenfinnan Monument re-assessed
  • Neil Cameron p 887
• Lecture Summaries - 1998 - 1999 - all lectures were presentred in Edinburgh
  • Scotland's Historic Towns: a future for their past
    • Pat Dennison - 11 January 1999 - p 909
  • The ancient Capital of Ulster: excavations in the Navan complex
    • Jim Mallory - 8 March 1999 - p 912
  • Britishness &endash; decline and fall?
    • Keith Robbins - 10 May 1999 - p 914