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Isle Of Lewis Chessmen - 900 Year Old Gaming Pieces

by Admin Added 10 years ago 747 Views / 0 Likes

Showcasing the Lewis chessmen, dated to 12th century. One motivation for uploading this is the many replica sets advertised for sale as 'authentic' and 'premium' etc, when they are in fact anything but.
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by Admin Added 7 years ago 745 Views / 0 Likes

Save The Argylls Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. London MS Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, former wife of the Chief of the Clan Campbell, arriving at The Scotch House in Brompton Road, S.W.1 in part of the nation-wi
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St Andrew - Scotland's Patron Saint

by Admin Added 9 years ago 729 Views / 0 Likes

History of St Andrew and his relationship with Scotland.
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The Romans In The Scottish Borders

by Admin Added 8 years ago 726 Views / 0 Likes

A man investigates the earthworks on top of Woden Law near Jedburgh and also looks at the Roman road Dere Streeet and Pennymuir Roman camps.
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Knights Templar In The Scottish Borders

by Admin Added 8 years ago 725 Views / 0 Likes

A man investigates the Knights Templars in the Scottish Borders with some dramatic results.
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Highlands - Episode 1

by Admin Added 10 years ago 721 Views / 0 Likes

John Michie begins his cross country journey at a reconstructed 17th century township in the Highland Folk Museum in Newtonmore in the Cairngorms and visits Castle Urquhart on the banks of Scotland's most famous loch, Loch Ness, to discover what life was
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SAVE THE ARGYLLS - NO SOUND

by Admin Added 7 years ago 720 Views / 0 Likes

Scotch House, Knightsbridge. Duchess of Argyll arrives to collect signatures to save the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Duchess Presented with bouquet - Queen Mothers piper - Pipe Major Bob Hill plays. Duchess collecting signatures. People queueing. Y
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Border Reivers | Stuff That I Find Interesting

by Admin Added 7 years ago 718 Views / 0 Likes

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Border Reivers

by Admin Added 7 years ago 712 Views / 0 Likes

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Scotland: Rome's Final Frontier (BBC)

by Admin Added 8 years ago 710 Views / 0 Likes

Were the ancient Scottish tribes too much for the Roman Empire? Or was Scotland simply not worth conquering? Archaeologist Dr Fraser Hunter looks back on three centuries of contact and conflict with the Roman invaders. The first Tay Bridge, the first depi
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History Repeating? Land Grabs And The Highland Clearances

by Admin Added 10 years ago 697 Views / 0 Likes

200 years ago thousands of small holder farmers were forcibly evicted from their land in Sutherland during the Highland Clearances. Two centuries on, there are clear parallels to the wave of land grabs taking place across the developing world. Sign up to
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New Research Finds Astronomical Connection To Scotland's Stone Circle

by Admin Added 6 years ago 695 Views / 0 Likes

University of Adelaide research has for the first time statistically proven that the earliest standing stone monuments of Britain, the great circles, were constructed specifically in line with the movements of the Sun and Moon, 5000 years ago.http://proxy
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