The Society is pleased to announce that Volume 148 of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is now available to Fellows via our journal platform, hosted by the University of Edinburgh Library. Papers in this year’s journal cover the length and breadth of Scotland and beyond – from Shetland to Rome. This year’s journal also contains three Gold Open Access papers, available to all, continuing our mission to promote Scottish heritage to as wide an audience as possible.

We are delighted to announce that two of the papers in this year’s journal have received awards for their contributions to scholarship. Dr Cynthia Rose Thickpenny received the RBK Stevenson Award in recognition of her article ‘Abstract pattern on stone fragments from Applecross: the master carver of northern Pictland?’ and Dr Bryony Coombs received the Murray Prize for her article ‘John Stuart, Duke of Albany and his contribution to military science in Scotland and Italy, 1514-36: from Dunbar to Rome’.

Please see the Table of Contents for this year’s Proceedings below and follow the links to read the articles.

The full backlist of issues can be explored via our journal website: journals.socantscot.org. All papers are free to view after the initial two-year embargo period, while the most recent two years are available only to Society Fellows.

Auldjo jug, © The Trustees of the British Museum under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence

Obituary: Professor Roger James Mercer https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.0003

Diana Murray and Ian Ralston

Neolithic pits and Late Bronze Age roundhouses in the Upper Urr Valley, Aberdeenshire https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1267

Richard Moore, Claire Lingard, Melanie Johnson, Ann Clarke, Mhairi Hastie, Mike Cressey, Gemma Cruikshanks and Derek Hamilton

This paper is published as Open Access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

‘The Spearhead of the Pennon…’: a Bronze Age spearhead carried into the Battle of Flodden? https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1266

Matthew G Knight and Trevor G Cowie

Storm damage at Craig Phadrig hillfort, Inverness: results of emergency archaeological evaluation https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1241

Mary Peteranna and Steven Birch

This paper is published as Open Access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Interdisciplinary approaches to a connected landscape: upland survey in the Northern Ochils https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1268

Michael Given, Oscar Aldred, Kevin Grant, Peter McNiven and Tessa Poller

This paper is published as Open Access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Kinneddar: a major ecclesiastical centre of the Picts https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1271

Gordon Noble, Gemma Cruikshanks, Lindsay Dunbar, Nicholas Evans, Derek Hall, Derek Hamilton, Cathy MacIver, Edouard Masson-MacLean, James O’Driscoll, Lindsey Paskulin and Oskar Sveinbjarnarson

Abstract pattern on stone fragments from Applecross: the master carver of northern Pictland? https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1253

Cynthia Thickpenny

*This paper was awarded the RBK Stevenson Award

Inchinnan 5: the discovery and reconstruction of an early medieval carved stone https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1269

Megan Kasten

A Pictish ‘serpent’ incised slab from Jarslhof, Shetland https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1273

James Graham-Campbell, Isabel Henderson, Anna Ritchie and Ian G Scott

Portraits of James I and James II, kings of Scots: some comparison and a conjecture https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1260

Frederick Hepburn

John Stuart, Duke of Albany and his contribution to military science in Scotland and Italy, 1514-36: from Dunbar to Rome https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1265

Bryony Coombs

*This paper was awarded the Murray Prize

The history of the Auldjo Jug 1830-60 – a review and critique: was Sir Walter Scott the real benefactor? https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1244

Michael Heafford

Six O’Clock in Princes Street: an analysis of Wilfred Owen’s Edinburgh ‘re-education’ https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1256

Neil McLennan

It’s never too early to start thinking about your submission for next year’s journal! If you are interested in submitting your research for volume 150, please visit or contact editor@socantscot.org for more information.

The Society is pleased to announce that Volume 148 of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is now available to Fellows via our journal platform, hosted by the University of Edinburgh Library. Papers in this year’s journal cover the length and breadth of Scotland and beyond – from Shetland to Rome. This year’s journal also contains three Gold Open Access papers, available to all, continuing our mission to promote Scottish heritage to as wide an audience as possible.

We are delighted to announce that two of the papers in this year’s journal have received awards for their contributions to scholarship. Dr Cynthia Rose Thickpenny received the RBK Stevenson Award in recognition of her article ‘Abstract pattern on stone fragments from Applecross: the master carver of northern Pictland?’ and Dr Bryony Coombs received the Murray Prize for her article ‘John Stuart, Duke of Albany and his contribution to military science in Scotland and Italy, 1514-36: from Dunbar to Rome’.

Please see the Table of Contents for this year’s Proceedings below and follow the links to read the articles.

The full backlist of issues can be explored via our journal website: journals.socantscot.org. All papers are free to view after the initial two-year embargo period, while the most recent two years are available only to Society Fellows.

Auldjo jug, © The Trustees of the British Museum under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence

Obituary: Professor Roger James Mercer https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.0003

Diana Murray and Ian Ralston

Neolithic pits and Late Bronze Age roundhouses in the Upper Urr Valley, Aberdeenshire https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1267

Richard Moore, Claire Lingard, Melanie Johnson, Ann Clarke, Mhairi Hastie, Mike Cressey, Gemma Cruikshanks and Derek Hamilton

This paper is published as Open Access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

‘The Spearhead of the Pennon…’: a Bronze Age spearhead carried into the Battle of Flodden? https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1266

Matthew G Knight and Trevor G Cowie

Storm damage at Craig Phadrig hillfort, Inverness: results of emergency archaeological evaluation https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1241

Mary Peteranna and Steven Birch

This paper is published as Open Access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Interdisciplinary approaches to a connected landscape: upland survey in the Northern Ochils https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1268

Michael Given, Oscar Aldred, Kevin Grant, Peter McNiven and Tessa Poller

This paper is published as Open Access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Kinneddar: a major ecclesiastical centre of the Picts https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1271

Gordon Noble, Gemma Cruikshanks, Lindsay Dunbar, Nicholas Evans, Derek Hall, Derek Hamilton, Cathy MacIver, Edouard Masson-MacLean, James O’Driscoll, Lindsey Paskulin and Oskar Sveinbjarnarson

Abstract pattern on stone fragments from Applecross: the master carver of northern Pictland? https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1253

Cynthia Thickpenny

*This paper was awarded the RBK Stevenson Award

Inchinnan 5: the discovery and reconstruction of an early medieval carved stone https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1269

Megan Kasten

A Pictish ‘serpent’ incised slab from Jarslhof, Shetland https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1273

James Graham-Campbell, Isabel Henderson, Anna Ritchie and Ian G Scott

Portraits of James I and James II, kings of Scots: some comparison and a conjecture https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1260

Frederick Hepburn

John Stuart, Duke of Albany and his contribution to military science in Scotland and Italy, 1514-36: from Dunbar to Rome https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1265

Bryony Coombs

*This paper was awarded the Murray Prize

The history of the Auldjo Jug 1830-60 – a review and critique: was Sir Walter Scott the real benefactor? https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1244

Michael Heafford

Six O’Clock in Princes Street: an analysis of Wilfred Owen’s Edinburgh ‘re-education’ https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.148.1256

Neil McLennan

It’s never too early to start thinking about your submission for next year’s journal! If you are interested in submitting your research for volume 150, please visit or contact editor@socantscot.org for more information.