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Historic Scotland Archive Project

551 113

Description Historic Scotland Archive Project

Collection Historic Scotland Archive Project

Catalogue Number 551 113

Category All Other

Scope and Content This collection comprises records from archaeological investigations commissioned, funded or part funded by Historic Scotland and its predecessor organisations.

Archive History This collection comprises records created by a diversity of archaeological units and other bodies and individuals. It derives from a tag in a previous, pre-ISAD(G) compliant, cataloguing system used to identify records processed as part of a major Historic Scotland funded cataloguing project (1996-2010), established to clear a backlog of project archives. This collection will gradually be reordered and reduced, as component records are moved to the appropriate individual creator/unit collections (e.g. SUAT, AOC, etc).

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Collection Hierarchy - Collection Level

Collection Level (551 113) Historic Scotland Archive Project

Preview Category Catalogue Number Title Date Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BS 5/04 CS Ratho Quarry excavation archive 25 slides of Areas 1 and 2. Includes detail of the loomweights and quern, the sunken-featured building and various pits. 1: 3 loomweights in NE quadrant of the sunken-featured building. 2: Large loomweight in NE quadrant. 3: Stones in centre of the sunken-featured building. 4: Quern stone 1073. 5: Stones of wall? Feature 1039 to the N of the sunken-feature building. 6: Fire cracked? stones in the NE quadrant of the sunken-feature building. 7: Pit - 2022 & 2021. 8: Sub-square feature - 2038 & 2037. 9: Small pit - 2026 & 2025. 10: Pit - 2028 & 2027. 11: Pit - 2014 & 2013. 12: Pit - 2005 & 2004 fully excavated. 13: Pit - 2016 & 2015. 14: Pit - 2018 & 2017. 15: Pit - 2036 & 2035. 16: Sections through rectilinear feature 2009 - the S side of structure 1. 17: Pit - 2040 & 2039. 18: Pit - 2048 (& post pipe) 2047. 19: Pit - 2050 & 2049, excavated by GUARD. 20: Pit - 2054 & 2053. 21: Pit - 2048 & 2047. 22: Pit - 2052 & 2051. 23: Pit - 2042 & 2041. 24: Pit - 2046 & 2045. 25: Pit - 2058 & 2057. 1993 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BS 5/05 CS Ratho Quarry excavation archive 27 slides of Areas 1, 2 and 3. Includes the sunken-featured building and loomweights, various pits, structure 2, a fragment of a second ring-ditch and further palisade trenches. 1: Pit - 2054 & 2053. 2-4: Loomweights in the SW quadrant of the sunken building. 5: Pit - 2060 & 2059. 6: Stone setting 2061 before excavation. 7: Pit - 2063 & 2062. 8: Half-section of stone setting 2061 with fill 2068. 9: Pit - 2056 & 2055. 10: Pit - 2065 & 2064. 11: Pit - 2070 & 2069. 12-13: Half sections of adjacent pits - cuts 2001 and 2067 with fills 2000 and 2066. 14-16: Tower views of rectilinear structure 2. 17-19: Working shots - excavation of the sunken-featured building. 20: Kubiena tins in the section of post hole 1046. 21-27: General views of palisade feature (3000), ring-ditch fragment (3002) and structure 2 in Area 3. 1993 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BS 3/40 CS Kebister excavation archive 15 slides of the settlement (Areas V & VI) and the teind barn (Area I): 1: Oil base building. 2: Area V & VI - general view. 3-6: Area I - general views. 7-11: Area I - grave 1 under excavation. 12-15: Area I - views of the kiln. 1987 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BS 3/41 CS Kebister excavation archive 17 slides of the excavations and archaeological survey. Detail includes the teind barn, (grave 1?), the settlement and field-systems. 1987 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BS 3/44 CS Kebister excavation archive 22 slides of the archaeological survey. Includes Handigert watermill, burnt mounds, the March Dyke and the cist: 1-6: Handigert - views of mill and Burn of Kebister. 7-8: Block L, Cutting 1 (structure 19?). 9-12: Block D, Cutting I - March Dyke. 13: Block H, Cutting 2 - cist and pit. 14-15: Block G - burnt mounds. 16-22: Trench section - cultivated soils, buried soils, dyke and peat box, plus general view. 1987 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BS 3/45 CS Kebister excavation archive 21 slides of Kebister Ness and Dales Voe - general and aerial views: 1-8: General views. 9-21: Aerial views, including the open excavations and Handigert. 1985 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BS 3/46 CS Kebister excavation archive 35 slides of Kebister excavation and survey plans, plus reconstruction, artefact and cartoon drawings. 1985 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BS 3/42 CS Kebister excavation archive 25 slides of Kebister Ness and the archaeological survey: 1-5: Pollen test pit above Kebister. 6-14: Working shots. 15-25: Views of Kebister Ness, including survey areas, Handigert and excavations. 1987 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BS 3/47 CS Kebister excavation archive 18 slides of artefacts found at Kebister, plus a bone comb from the Earl's Palace, Kirkwall. Includes the armorial stone, post medieval bead slides, glass beads, the piece of porphyry, incised pebbles and the coarse stone assemblage. 1985 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BS 3/39 CS Kebister excavation archive 37 slides of the settlement and ard marks (Area VI), plus the cist: 1: Area VI - context 439. 2-3: Area VI - ard marks 397. 4: LF 3758 (coarse stone tool) in situ. 5-10: Area VI - contexts 441, 910, 442 & 444. 11-21: Area VI - contexts 455, 457, 398, 458, 453, 454, 448, 451, 452, 449, 450, 446, 459, 1385, 447, 460, 398, 472, 482, 467, 483 & 476. 22: Cist under excavation. 23: Area VI - contexts 468 & 469. 24: Coarse stone tool (492) in situ within pit 486. 25-30: Area VI - contexts 387, 491, 459, 1387, 458, 467, 479, 1418 & 1425. 31-34: Area VI - general shots after excavation. 35-37: Working shots - end of excavation. 1987 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BS 3/48 CS Kebister excavation archive 23 slides taken during visits to Kebister out with the 1985 - 1987 excavation and survey seasons. 1984 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BS 3/43 CS Kebister excavation archive 55 slides of the archaeological survey: 1-10: Block H, Cuttings 5, 13, 1, 3 & 4. 11-12: Block G, Cutting 16 - dyke 10. 13-16: Block H, Cuttings 8, 6 & 7 - dykes and turf walled square enclosure. 17: Block G, Cutting 16 - section through dyke 10. 18: Block H - FSB in section in the JCB trench at 335/465. 19: Block G - wall in section at 400/640. 20: General view looking NW from Block H, Cutting 7. 21-24: Block H, Cuttings 9, 10 & 11 - dykes. 25-26: Block H, Cutting 13 - hut platform. 27: Block H - view of burnt mound. 28-38: Block G, Cuttings 11, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 8, 9, 10 & 13 - dykes, burnt mounds, hut platforms and general views. 39: Block C, Cutting I - section through bank and dyke. 40-44: Block G, Cuttings 14 & 15 - burnt mounds. 45-49: Block G, Cuttings 16, 17, 18 & 19. 50-51: Block D, Cuttings 4 & 5 - dyke and hut platform 5. 52: Block H, Cutting 10 - sampling peat. 53-55: Block D, Cuttings 2 & 6. 1987 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BS 3/49 CS Kebister excavation archive. 20 slides of Foulden tithe barn. 1985 Batch Level
Manuscripts MS 1088/01 Data structure report 'Excavation at Ratho Quarry, Midlothian' by Andrea Smith. 30/7/1993 Item Level
Manuscripts MS 1088/13 Report on the loomweights by Andrew Norton and Ann MacSween. 1/1994 Item Level
Manuscripts MS 1088/02 'Ratho Quarry: Conservation of the loom weights' by A Clydesdale, M L Haynes and P Watson. 18/11/1993 Item Level
Manuscripts MS 1088/03 'Post sorting assessment report, Ratho Quarry' by A Duffy. 5/1/1994 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BP 3/07 Excavation of the cobbled apron and interior of the N stable and the stable forestair. Detail of the well, and the cobbled drain and sump in the parade ground. 9/1983 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BP 3/08 Excavation of the tackroom and rear entrance, and the N stable postholes with burnt timbers in situ. 9/1983 Batch Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images BP 3/09 PO Excavation of N stable postholes and drains with burnt timber in situ, plus the cobbles out with the rear entrance. 9/1983 Item Level
Manuscripts MS 1088/04 'Ratho AOC 254, Soil and Sediment report (excluding Thin Sections)' by S Carter. 1/1994 Item Level
Manuscripts MS 1088/05 'Ratho Quarry; Lithics report' by N Findlay. 10/2/1994 Item Level
Manuscripts MS 1088/06 'The coarse stone finds from Ratho' by N Battley. 2/1994 Item Level
Manuscripts MS 1088/07 'The copper alloy pin from Ratho' by N Battley. 2/1994 Item Level

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