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Scarf Consultation

Draft chapters are being prepared and will be linked to from this page. Your feedback is welcome: are there any mistakes? are we missing key examples? do you know of any other radiocarbon dates? can you fill in missing sources? and most importantly, what research gaps do you think need to be filled? And of course pointing out typos and grammatical errors is always welcome.

All comments should be emailed to higharf@gmail.com ideally by mid February 2021. For Chapter 6, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age, please send all comments by 26th April.

A note about the drafts:
These were written during lockdown, and without library access. As a result, a number of places are flagged in the drafts to check various sources and augment once access to libraries becomes possible. In some cases, detailed comments are still awaited from  contributors. The final versions therefore may look substantially different. The final Highland Regional ScARF will be published on the ScARF website (scarf.scot), with sections subdivided, but for ease the full chapters are joined here for comments.

When drafts are available, they will be highlighted with a link below

Chapters

• Chapter 1: Introduction

Setting the Scene

• Chapter 2: Sources
• Chapter 3: Land and Environment

Chronological Overview

• Chapter 4: Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
• Chapter 5: Neolithic
• Chapter 6: Chalcolithic and Bronze Age
• Chapter 7: Iron Age
• Chapter 8: Early Medieval
• Chapter 9: Medieval
• Chapter 10: Post-Medieval

Appendices and Links

• Chapter 11: References (version as of 12-4-2021)

Case Studies:

• Scotland’s First Settlers Project (Multi-period)
• Freswick Links (Multi-period)
• Littleferry Links (Multi-period)
• Brotchie’s Steading (Multi-period)
• Geodha Smoo Cave complex (Multi-period)
• Environmental Investigations at Garbh Catchment, Little Rogart, near Golspie (Multi-period)
• Lochloy, Nairn (Multi-period)
• Rosemarkie Caves Project (Multi-period)
• Fortrose and Rosemarkie Waste Water Works (Multi-period)
• Archaeological work by the NTS in the Highlands (Multi-period)
• Sand (Mesolithic)
• An Corran (Palaeolithic / Mesolithic)
• Tarradale (Mesolithic)
• Kinloch, Rum (Mesolithic)
• Mesolithic bloodstone artefacts from Camas Daraich
• Kinbeachie Neolithic Settlement (Neolithic)
• Neolithic Axeheads
• Raigmore (Stoneyfield) Cairn (Neolithic and Bronze Age)
• Lower Slackbuie (ASDA site), Inverness (Mainly Neolithic)
• Heights of Fodderty Cup and Ring Marked Stone (Neolithic / Bronze Age)
• Pullyhour Henge (Bronze Age)
• Clava type Cairns (Bronze Age)
• Feats of Clay project (Bronze Age)
• Dail na Caraidh hoard (Bronze Age)
• Ava Bronze Age burial
• Langwell Cist burial (Bronze Age)
• Seafield West Bronze Age cemetery 
• Armadale Cemetery and Ritual site (Bronze Age)
• Beaker Pottery (Bronze Age)
• Heights of Brae Hoard (Bronze Age)
• The Migdale Hoard (Bronze Age)
• Rhiconich roundhouse (Bronze Age/Early Medieval)
• Poolewe Hoard (Bronze Age/Iron Age)
• High Pasture Cave (Iron Age / Bronze Age)
• Nybster Broch (Iron Age)
• Clachtoll Broch (Iron Age)
• Culduthel Iron Age workshops
• Dun Deardail hillfort (Iron Age)
• Highland Crannogs and Odo Blundell (Iron Age)
• Bracadale Wooden Bowl (Iron Age)
• Ballachulish Figure (Iron Age)
• Loch Borralie Burial (Iron Age)
• Golspie Pin (Early Medieval)
• Anglo-Saxon Mount from Dornoch (Early Medieval)
• Conan Pictish Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
• Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Cross Slab (Early Medieval and later)
• Portmahomack (Early Medieval / Medieval)
• Balnakeil Viking burial (Early Medieval)
• Tote Cairn (Early Medieval / Bronze Age)
• Storr Rock Viking hoard (Early Medieval)
• Origins of Dingwall (Early Medieval / Medieval)
• Ormond Castle (Medieval)
• Eilean Donan Castle (Medieval)
• Medieval Inverness
• Medieval Annular Brooches
• Whitefriar’s Priory, Kingussie (Medieval)
• Rubh an Dunain (Medieval)
• Medieval Cromarty
• Unusual Medieval Burials from Tarbat
• Glen Feshie Survey and Shieling excavation (Medieval / Post-Medieval)
• Kiltearn Old Kirk (Medieval / Post-Medieval)
• John o’Groats Burial ground (Medieval / Post-Medieval)
• Castle Sinclair Girnigoe (Medieval / Post-Medieval)
• Eaderloch Crannog (Post-Medieval)
• Glendrian, Ardnamurchan Post-Medieval settlement
• Red Smiddy Blast Furnace (Post-Medieval)
• Easter Raitts Township (Post-Medieval)
• Mulchaich - a possible distillery and township (Post-Medieval)
• Russian Cloth Trade to Cromarty (Post-Medieval)
• Loch Hourn Survey (Post-Medieval)
• Sarclet Fishing Village (Post-Medieval)
• Spinningdale Mill (Post-Medieval)
• Wilkhouse Inn (Post-Medieval)
• Thomas Telford in the Highlands (Post-Medieval)
• Thurso Brewery (Post-Medieval)
• Material Culture of Highland Travellers  (Post-Medieval)
• Orrin Falls Hydro Scheme (Post-Medieval)
• Skibo A Canadian Forestry Camp (Post-Medieval)
• Wartime Remains in the Cromarty Firth (Post-Medieval)

Links to National ScARF case studies

• The Lairg Project
• Shandwick Stone (Early Medieval onwards)
• Transhumance and Shielings (mainly Post-Medieval)
• Archaeology and the persistent myth of aboriginal Scotland (Post-Medieval)
• An Archaeology of the Newfoundland Diaspora (Post-Medieval)
• Grave Robbing (Post-Medieval)
• Intertidal fish-traps in the inner Moray Firth (Post-Medieval)

Draft Maps and Datasheets:

• Radiocarbon Dates Datasheet
• Human Remains Datasheet
• Mesolithic Finds Map and Datasheet
• Neolithic Axeheads Map and Datasheet
• Neolithic Leaf-shaped Arrowheads Map and Datasheet
• Neolithic Pottery Map and Datasheet
• Chambered Cairns Map and Datasheet
• Carved Stone Balls Map and Datasheet
• Bronze Age Burials Map and Datasheet
• Clava Cairns Map and Datasheet
• Chambered Cairns with Bronze Age Re-use Map and Datasheet
• Bronze Age Axeheads Map and Datasheet
• Bronze Age Metalwork Map and Datasheet
• Bronze Age Pottery Map and Datasheet
• Bronze Age Arrowheads Map and Datasheet
• Brochs Map and Datasheet
• Burnt Mounds Map and Datasheet
• Souterrains Map and Datasheet
• Hillforts and Duns Map and Datasheet
• Crannogs Map and Datasheet
• Steatite Vessels Map and Datasheet
• Roman Finds Map and Datasheet
• Holy Wells Map and Datasheet
• Pagan Viking Graves Map and Datasheet
• Pictish Symbol Stone Map and Datasheet
• Cross Slabs Map and Datasheet
• Cross-Carved Stones Map and Datasheet