Out of stock titles
Since 1982, the Society has published peer-reviewed academic books under its own imprint. From 1982–2002, the Society published its paperback monograph series, focusing on Scottish archaeology. Then in 2003, the Society began publishing beautifully produced large-format and full-colour monographs across both multiple disciplines.
Below are two lists detailing the Society’s out of stock titles. We have no plans to reprint any of these books, but as part of our ongoing commitment to sharing knowledge about Scotland’s past, we are planning to make these books available online in future. For titles that are still in print, please see the Society’s online shop.
If you would like to access one of these titles, many are available through the National Library of Scotland or the National Museums Scotland Research Library. Earlier titles (marked ADS ) can also be accessed through the Archaeology Data Service.
| Monograph series | |||
| No. | Author | Title | Year |
| 1 | Cecil Curle | Pictish and Norse finds from the Brough of Birsay 1934–74 ADS | 1982 |
| 2 | J C Murray (ed) | Excavations in the Medieval Burgh of Aberdeen 1973–81 ADS | 1982 |
| 3 | Horace Fairhurst | Excavations at Crosskirk Broch, Caithness ADS | 1984 |
| 4 | John R Hunter | Rescue excavations on the Brough of Birsay 1974-82 ADS | 1986 |
| 5 | Philip Holdsworth (ed) | Excavations in the Medieval Burgh of Perth 1979–81 ADS | 1987 |
| 6 | J A Stones (ed) | Three Scottish Carmelite Friaries: Excavations at Aberdeen, Linlithgow and Perth, 1980–86 ADS | 1989 |
| 7 | Caroline R Wickham-Jones | Rhum: Mesolithic and later sites at Kinloch: excavations 1984–86 ADS | 1990 |
| 8 | Richard Bradley | Altering the Earth: The Origins of Monuments in Britain and Continental Europe ADS | 1993 |
| 9 | Beverley Ballin Smith (ed) | Howe: Four Millennia of Orkney Prehistory Excavations 1978–1982 ADS | 1994 |
| 10 | John Lewis & Gordon Ewart | Jedburgh Abbey: The Archaeology and Architecture of a Border Abbey ADS | 1995 |
| 11 | John Coles & Bryony Coles | Enlarging the Past: The contribution of wetland archaeology ADS | 1995 |
| 12 | Stephen T Driscoll & Peter A Yeoman | Excavations within Edinburgh Castle in 1988–91 ADS | 1997 |
| 13 | Gordon J Barclay & Gordon S Maxwell | The Cleaven Dyke and Littleour: Monuments in the Neolithic of Tayside ADS | 1998 |
| 14 | Olwyn Owen & Christopher Lowe | Kebister: The Four-thousand-year-old Story of One Shetland Township ADS | 1999 |
| 15 | Barbara E Crawford & Beverley Ballin Smith | The Biggings Papa Stour Shetland: the history and archaeology of a royal Norwegian farm ADS | 1999 |
| 16 | David R Perry | Castle Park, Dunbar: Two Thousand Years on a Fortified Headland ADS | 2000 |
| 17 | Richard Bradley | The Good Stones: A New Investigation of the Clava Cairns ADS | 2000 |
| 18 | Jill Turnbull | The Scottish Glass Industry 1610–1750: ‘To serve the whole nation with glass’ ADS | 2001 |
| 19 | Alison Cameron & Judith Stones | Aberdeen: an in-depth view of the city’s past. Excavations at seven major sites within the medieval burgh ADS | 2001 |
| 20 | Christopher Tolan-Smith | The Caves of Mid Argyll: an archaeology of human use ADS | 2001 |
| 21 | John Lewis & Denys Pringle | Spynie Palace and the Bishops of Moray: history, architecture and archaeology ADS | 2002 |
| 22 | Thomas Welander, David J Breeze & Thomas Owen Clancy | Stone of Destiny: artefact & icon ADS | 2003 |
| 23 | Nicholas Holmes | Excavation of Roman Sites at Cramond, Edinburgh ADS | 2003 |
| 24 | Leslie Alcock | Kings and warriors, craftsmen and priests in northern Britain AD 550–850 ADS | 2003 |
| Individual monographs | |||
| – | Geoffrey Barrow | The Declaration of Arbroath: history, significance, setting ADS | 2003 |
| – | Iain G Brown | Abbotsford and Sir Walter Scott: the image and the influence ADS | 2003 |
| – | Alan Saville | Mesolithic Scotland and its Neighbours: the Early Holocene prehistory of Scotland, its British and Irish context, and some Northern European perspectives ADS | 2004 |
| – | Ian A G Shepherd & Gordon J Barclay | Scotland in Ancient Europe: The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Scotland in Their European Context | 2004 |
| – | Richard Bradley | The Moon and the Bonfire: an investigation of three stone circles in north-east Scotland ADS | 2005 |
| – | Anne Crone & Ewan Campbell | Crannog of the 1st Millennium BC: Excavations by Jack Scott at Loch Glashan, Argyll, 1960 | 2005 |
| – | Richard Fawcett | Royal Dunfermline ADS | 2005 |
| – | Chris Lowe | Excavations at Hoddom, Dumfriesshire: An Early Ecclesiastical Site in South-west Scotland | 2006 |
| – | Ian Armit | Anatomy of An Iron Age Roundhouse: The Cnip Wheelhouse Excavations, Lewis | 2007 |
| – | Scottish Wetland Archaeology Project (SWAP) | Archaeology from The Wetlands: Recent Perspectives: Proceedings of the 11th WARP Conference, Edinburgh 2005 | 2007 |
| – | Heather F James, Isabel Henderson, Sally M Foster & Siân Jones | A Fragmented Masterpiece: recovering the biography of the Hilton of Cadboll cross-slab ADS | 2008 |
| – | Olivia Lelong & Gavin MacGregor | Lands of Ancient Lothian: Interpreting the Archaeology of the A1 | 2008 |
| – | Christopher Lowe | Inchmarnock: An Early Historic Island Monastery and Its Archaeological Landscape | 2008 |
| – | Colin Haselgrove | Traprain Law Environs Project: Fieldwork and Excavations 2000–2004 | 2009 |
| – | Anna Ritchie | On the Fringe of Neolithic Europe: Excavation of a Chambered Cairn on the Holm of Papa Westray, Orkney | 2009 |
| – | Rebecca H Jones | Roman Camps in Scotland | 2011 |
| – | Lawrence Keppie | Antiquarian Rediscovery of the Antonine Wall | 2012 |
| – | Ian Armit & Jo McKenzie | An Inherited Place: Broxmouth Hillfort and the South-East Scottish Iron Age | 2013 |
| – | Fraser Hunter & Kenneth Painter | Late Roman Silver: The Traprain Treasure in Context | 2013 |
| – | Naomi E A Tarrant | ‘Remember Now Thy Creator’: Scottish Girls’ Samplers, 1700–1872 | 2014 |
| – | Fraser Hunter & Ian Ralston | Scotland In Later Prehistoric Europe | 2015 |
| – | David J Breeze | Bearsden: A Roman Fort on the Antonine Wall | 2016 |
| – | Martin Carver, Justin Garner-Lahire, Cecily Spall | Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness: Changing Ideologies in North-East Scotland, Sixth to Sixteenth Century AD | 2016 |
| – | Colin Martin | Cromwellian Warship wrecked off Duart Castle, Mull, Scotland, in 1653 | 2017 |
| – | Gordon J Barclay & Ron Morris | Fortification of The Firth of Forth 1880–1977: ‘The most powerful naval fortress in the Briish Empire’ | 2019 |
| – | Ian Brown | Radar in Scotland 1938–46 | 2022 |
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