Roger Mercer

Biographic Data

ID1128832
NAMERoger Mercer
GIVEN NAMESRoger
FAMILY NAMEMercer
SIGNATUREMERCER R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS24
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX1

  • By Other Means? The Development of Warfare in the British Isles 3000–500 B.C

    Roger MercerARTICLEJournal of Conflict Archaeology2006Cited by: 1References: 3

    Warfare in Britain in the period from the late Neolithic to the late Bronze Age is considered in terms of the physical evidence in the archaeological record; of the artefacts considered as weapons, and of the sites that are considered to have been 'defensive'. Alongside this technological analysis, a model is proposed for the emergence of the social organisation of military groups or warbands

  • From Digger to Director, Cornwall to Caithness

    Open AccessRoger MercerARTICLEAntiquity2006

    Roger Mercer, prehistorian and formerly Secretary of the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments for Scotland, looks back

  • Graham Ritchie MA, MBA, PhD, FSA, FSAScot, 1942-2005

    Open AccessRoger MercerARTICLEAntiquity2005

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  • The early Bronze Age cairn at Sketewan, Balnaguard, Perth & Kinross

    Roger Mercer, Roger J Mercer et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…1998

    The excavation of the cairn in 1988 revealed a complex sequence of EBA funerary activities. These comprised several episodes of pyre cremation, construction of a large central cist, and six smaller satellite cists all of which had cremations deposited within them. This `cemetery' area was later surrounded by an eccentrically positioned ring-cairn which, subsequently, was covered by a massive mantle of stones. Burial and other ceremonial activitie…

  • The excavation of a succession of prehistoric round-houses at Cnoc Stanger, Reay, Caithness, Highland, 1981-2

    Roger Mercer, Roger J Mercer et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…1997Cited by: 1

  • Stonehenge in its Landscape

    Open AccessRoger MercerARTICLEThe Antiquaries Journal1997

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  • Armand Lacaille

    Open AccessRoger MercerARTICLEAntiquity1997

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  • Gabriel Cooney & Eoin Grogan. Irish prehistory

    Open AccessRoger Mercer, Roger J MercerARTICLEAntiquity1995

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  • Lecture Summaries

    Peter C Hill, Peter Hill et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…1993

    Six lecture summaries:The Northumbrian church at WhithornMonuments on record: the work of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland at the end of the 20th centuryCanadian Ethnology and the Wilson BrothersFleas, Flies and Farmers, an entomology of archaeologyHigh Society on the Antonine frontierA history of the Arts & Crafts movement in Edinburgh, 1885-1939

  • Neolithic henge-type enclosure at Balfarg

    Roger Mercer, Roger J Mercer et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…1989Cited by: 1

    Further excavation and pedological analysis of the gully forming the southern perimeter of the henge suggest that the channel previously interpreted as a natural stream (see 83/10516) is in fact the 'missing' southern segment of henge ditch

  • T. Darvill. Prehistoric Britain. London

    Open AccessRoger MercerARTICLEAntiquity1987

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  • The excavation of a cist-group at Upper Largie quarry, Kilmartin, central Argyll 1982-1983

    Open AccessRoger Mercer, R J Mercer et al.ARTICLEGlasgow Archaeological Journal1987

    A rescue excavation at a quarry site uncovered the remains of a cist-cemetery including three cists and several cist-features containing fragments of urns and cremation remains. Three radiocarbon dates were obtained from charcoal from a cist (1645bc) and from a cist-feature containing cremated human remains and urn shards (1020bc and 1050bc)

  • The excavation of a late Neolithic henge-type enclosure at Balfarg, Markinch, Fife, Scotland, 1977-78

    Roger Mercer, Roger J Mercer et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…1982Cited by: 21

  • Metal Arrow-heads in the European Bronze and Early Iron Ages

    Open AccessRoger Mercer, Roger J MercerARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…1970References: 4

    The practice of Archery in the Bronze Age and early Iron Age as it survives to us in the archaeological record is difficult of interpretation owing to the low survival value of most archery equipment—the one relic of fairly high survival value being the arrow-head, of flint, bronze or iron. This paper deals with a topic little touched upon previously, and, setting aside the tradition of stone arrow-head manufacture (which persisted well into the …