Robert B K Stevenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4997233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert B K Stevenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert B K |
| FAMILY NAME | Stevenson |
| SIGNATURE | STEVENSON R B K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Celtic brooch from Westness, Orkney, and hinged-pins
Detailed description, including X-ray fluorescence analysis, and discussion of the silver and gold brooch found in a 9th century Norse grave in 1963, now known to have been part of a cemetery. An Irish origin is likely for the brooch-pin, possibly in the second quarter of the 8th century, and comparable hinged-pins are discussed. AR
The chapel and enclosure on the Brough of Deerness, Orkney
Excavations took place at this site in 1975-6, followed by a survey in 1977, at the invitation of the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments, as clearance of turf and rubble had previously revealed a hoard of post-medieval coins. Further coins were found, which relate to the period after usage of the chapel had ceased: the group is interpreted in votive terms and related to accounts of pilgrimage to the site. The unicameral chapel itself had both a ti…
The Pictish brooch from Aldclune, Blair Atholl, Perthshire
The early ninth-century silver penannular brooch from Aldclune is fully described and its manufacture assessed in detail
Further notes on the Hunterston and 'Tara' brooches, Monymusk reliquary, and Blackness bracelet
Medieval bronze sword-pommel with clay core
Arabella Stewart' medals
Romano-British Glass Bangles
The classification, distribution and date of these bangles are discussed and a further section deals with the techniques of manufacture and source, including the results of technical studies. -- AATA
Beads of Reddish Marbled Stone (Lithomarge)
The Cadboll Cup
The Hunterston Brooch and its Significance
LIKE SO MANY OTHER ‘well-known’ objects the Hunterston brooch has lacked the detailed description and illustration necessary for its evaluation. Besides providing basic information, this article discusses features of its technique and design as evidence of how the ‘Hiberno-Saxon’ amalgam of 7th and 8th-century art styles developed. It suggests that the Hunterston brooch is stylistically the earliest known of the inlaid and gilded ‘Tara’ type, and…
A Roman intaglio ring from a native fort on Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh
NT 275725. An Augustan sardonyx intaglio set in an iron ring was found beneath the tumbled rubble of a wall inside a hitherto unrecognised Iron Age fort on Samson's Ribs, Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh. AR
The Gaulcross hoard of Pictish silver
This hoard of three silver objects found in the cairn of a stone circle at Ley, Fordyce, Banffs, c 1840 and only previously known from drawings and notes made by J Stuart in 1867, is published for the first time. The objects in the hoard, conventionally termed 'Pictish', consist of a hand-pin with hair-spring spirals terminating in animal heads and (on the reverse) punched circles; a spiral bracelet of convex-section broad silver ribbon; and a co…
The Inchyra stone and some other unpublished early Christian monuments
Scottish Coin Notes
Coin Hoards in Scotland, 1955
Pins and the Chronology of Brochs
Prehistorians have unreservedly extended the Early Iron Age in territories north of the Roman Empire to include, in addition to a pre-Roman Iron Age, a Roman Iron Age during which the native barbarism evolved without a break though not unaffected by the Empire. That a Late Iron Age continued in Scotland, as in Scandinavia, during post-Roman times has been less readily realized. Professor Childe nominally ended his Prehistory of Scotland with the …
Native Bangles and Roman Glass
The need to record a number of specimens that have come to the Museum's notice since the War has led to a study of various aspects of Scottish glass armlets: one might rather call them bracelets or bangles in view of their small diameter, and the presumption that the smallest ones, being only 1-65 ins. across inside, may really have been pendants like those hung from women's tores in pre-Roman France, and like undoubted jet ring-pendants, from Tr…
Long Cist Burials, particularly those at Galson (Lewis) and Gairloch (Wester Ross)
Prehistoric Pot-Building in Europe
Crosraguel' pennies, re-attribution to Bishop Kennedy
When in 1919 Sir George Macdonald described * the remarkable collection of 205 coins found earlier that year in a drain at Crosraguel Abbey in Ayrshire, he deduced that 51 copper pennies and 87 copper farthings should be ascribed to a mint working at the Abbey itself.Previously such pennies were little known to numismatic literature, and the James whose name appeared on them had been supposed to be some continental ruler. 2 At Crosraguel the othe…
The Nuclear Fort of Dalmahoy, Midlothian and other Dark Age Capitals
Braidwood Fort, Midlothian
Fort at Scotstarvit Covert, Fife
Charles I's Coronation Ampulla
Farms and Fortifications in the King's Park, Edinburgh
The surviving remains which comprise hut circles, Dunsapie Fort, a defensive dyke, cottages, rigs, terraces and scooped enclosures, are described in detail
The Hunterston Brooch and its Significance
LIKE SO MANY OTHER ‘well-known’ objects the Hunterston brooch has lacked the detailed description and illustration necessary for its evaluation. Besides providing basic information, this article discusses features of its technique and design as evidence of how the ‘Hiberno-Saxon’ amalgam of 7th and 8th-century art styles developed. It suggests that the Hunterston brooch is stylistically the earliest known of the inlaid and gilded ‘Tara’ type, and…
Native Bangles and Roman Glass
The need to record a number of specimens that have come to the Museum's notice since the War has led to a study of various aspects of Scottish glass armlets: one might rather call them bracelets or bangles in view of their small diameter, and the presumption that the smallest ones, being only 1-65 ins. across inside, may really have been pendants like those hung from women's tores in pre-Roman France, and like undoubted jet ring-pendants, from Tr…
The chapel and enclosure on the Brough of Deerness, Orkney
Excavations took place at this site in 1975-6, followed by a survey in 1977, at the invitation of the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments, as clearance of turf and rubble had previously revealed a hoard of post-medieval coins. Further coins were found, which relate to the period after usage of the chapel had ceased: the group is interpreted in votive terms and related to accounts of pilgrimage to the site. The unicameral chapel itself had both a ti…
Pins and the Chronology of Brochs
Prehistorians have unreservedly extended the Early Iron Age in territories north of the Roman Empire to include, in addition to a pre-Roman Iron Age, a Roman Iron Age during which the native barbarism evolved without a break though not unaffected by the Empire. That a Late Iron Age continued in Scotland, as in Scandinavia, during post-Roman times has been less readily realized. Professor Childe nominally ended his Prehistory of Scotland with the …
The Neolithic Cultures of South-East Italy
South-east Italy, from the spur to the heel of Italy's boot, forms a natural geographic and cultural unit, separated from the Balkans by the Adriatic yet joined to them by the same sea. It is an area of plain and plateau bounded to the west and north by the Apennines, which come down to the sea at the Gulf of Taranto and again north of the Gargano peninsula. Considerably more material for the study of the neolithic cultures in this area has been …
Prehistoric Pot-Building in Europe
The Celtic brooch from Westness, Orkney, and hinged-pins
Detailed description, including X-ray fluorescence analysis, and discussion of the silver and gold brooch found in a 9th century Norse grave in 1963, now known to have been part of a cemetery. An Irish origin is likely for the brooch-pin, possibly in the second quarter of the 8th century, and comparable hinged-pins are discussed. AR
Braidwood Fort, Midlothian
Fort at Scotstarvit Covert, Fife
A Shell-Heap at Polmonthill, Falkirk
A large shell heap on a raised beach was discovered by mechanical excavator. It measured 170 x 25 x 1.5 yards and comprised 6-7 million oyster shells with occasional mussels, winkles, cockles and buckies. Burnt layers with charcoal and heat-fractured pebbles were also present. A vertical sided pit was dug into the heap at an unknown date
The Gaulcross hoard of Pictish silver
This hoard of three silver objects found in the cairn of a stone circle at Ley, Fordyce, Banffs, c 1840 and only previously known from drawings and notes made by J Stuart in 1867, is published for the first time. The objects in the hoard, conventionally termed 'Pictish', consist of a hand-pin with hair-spring spirals terminating in animal heads and (on the reverse) punched circles; a spiral bracelet of convex-section broad silver ribbon; and a co…
The Inchyra stone and some other unpublished early Christian monuments
Long Cist Burials, particularly those at Galson (Lewis) and Gairloch (Wester Ross)
The Nuclear Fort of Dalmahoy, Midlothian and other Dark Age Capitals
Two Bronze Age Burials
A stone built cist containing a cinerary urn with the cremated remains of an adult was discovered at Outerston Hill, Midlothian. Pyre debris, including a burnt worked flint flake and large sherds of a smashed and burnt second pottery vessel were also present. A second stone cist at West Pinkerton, Broxburn, East Lothian contained two adult male skeletons and a Beaker vessel. The earlier skeleton had apparently been disturbed during the burial of …
Medieval Dwelling sites and a Primitive Village in the Parish of Manor, Peeblesshire
A class of sites described as scooped enclosures are characterised by a hillside location. The area marked off by an enclosing rampart or wall is mostly lower than the ground outside. This is markedly so on the uphill side, where the enclosing wall stands on the level of the ground outside and is clearly not meant to be defensible against attack from above. The interior is not uniformly level, but consists of a number of separate level "floors," …
Some relics from Kildalton, Islay
In the course of the clearance of the Museum's cellars in 1939 a box was discovered containing relics from the excavation of a cave near Kildalton House, Islay. The relics comprised pounders, pot lids, flints, animal bone, charcoal and almost three hundred pottery sherds
The Neolithic Cultures of South-East Italy
South-east Italy, from the spur to the heel of Italy's boot, forms a natural geographic and cultural unit, separated from the Balkans by the Adriatic yet joined to them by the same sea. It is an area of plain and plateau bounded to the west and north by the Apennines, which come down to the sea at the Gulf of Taranto and again north of the Gargano peninsula. Considerably more material for the study of the neolithic cultures in this area has been …
Jacobite Rings
Re-assessment of a group of ten Jacobite rings. The rings are of enamelled gold in a variety of designs but with details in common. A feature of Jacobite propaganda, they are thought to have been made in France
A Shell-Heap at Polmonthill, Falkirk
A large shell heap on a raised beach was discovered by mechanical excavator. It measured 170 x 25 x 1.5 yards and comprised 6-7 million oyster shells with occasional mussels, winkles, cockles and buckies. Burnt layers with charcoal and heat-fractured pebbles were also present. A vertical sided pit was dug into the heap at an unknown date
Farms and Fortifications in the King's Park, Edinburgh
The surviving remains which comprise hut circles, Dunsapie Fort, a defensive dyke, cottages, rigs, terraces and scooped enclosures, are described in detail
Fort at Scotstarvit Covert, Fife
Charles I's Coronation Ampulla
The Nuclear Fort of Dalmahoy, Midlothian and other Dark Age Capitals
Braidwood Fort, Midlothian
Crosraguel' pennies, re-attribution to Bishop Kennedy
When in 1919 Sir George Macdonald described * the remarkable collection of 205 coins found earlier that year in a drain at Crosraguel Abbey in Ayrshire, he deduced that 51 copper pennies and 87 copper farthings should be ascribed to a mint working at the Abbey itself.Previously such pennies were little known to numismatic literature, and the James whose name appeared on them had been supposed to be some continental ruler. 2 At Crosraguel the othe…
Prehistoric Pot-Building in Europe
Long Cist Burials, particularly those at Galson (Lewis) and Gairloch (Wester Ross)
Pins and the Chronology of Brochs
Prehistorians have unreservedly extended the Early Iron Age in territories north of the Roman Empire to include, in addition to a pre-Roman Iron Age, a Roman Iron Age during which the native barbarism evolved without a break though not unaffected by the Empire. That a Late Iron Age continued in Scotland, as in Scandinavia, during post-Roman times has been less readily realized. Professor Childe nominally ended his Prehistory of Scotland with the …
Native Bangles and Roman Glass
The need to record a number of specimens that have come to the Museum's notice since the War has led to a study of various aspects of Scottish glass armlets: one might rather call them bracelets or bangles in view of their small diameter, and the presumption that the smallest ones, being only 1-65 ins. across inside, may really have been pendants like those hung from women's tores in pre-Roman France, and like undoubted jet ring-pendants, from Tr…
Coin Hoards in Scotland, 1955
Scottish Coin Notes
The Inchyra stone and some other unpublished early Christian monuments
The Gaulcross hoard of Pictish silver
This hoard of three silver objects found in the cairn of a stone circle at Ley, Fordyce, Banffs, c 1840 and only previously known from drawings and notes made by J Stuart in 1867, is published for the first time. The objects in the hoard, conventionally termed 'Pictish', consist of a hand-pin with hair-spring spirals terminating in animal heads and (on the reverse) punched circles; a spiral bracelet of convex-section broad silver ribbon; and a co…
A Roman intaglio ring from a native fort on Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh
NT 275725. An Augustan sardonyx intaglio set in an iron ring was found beneath the tumbled rubble of a wall inside a hitherto unrecognised Iron Age fort on Samson's Ribs, Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh. AR
The Cadboll Cup
The Hunterston Brooch and its Significance
LIKE SO MANY OTHER ‘well-known’ objects the Hunterston brooch has lacked the detailed description and illustration necessary for its evaluation. Besides providing basic information, this article discusses features of its technique and design as evidence of how the ‘Hiberno-Saxon’ amalgam of 7th and 8th-century art styles developed. It suggests that the Hunterston brooch is stylistically the earliest known of the inlaid and gilded ‘Tara’ type, and…
Romano-British Glass Bangles
The classification, distribution and date of these bangles are discussed and a further section deals with the techniques of manufacture and source, including the results of technical studies. -- AATA
Beads of Reddish Marbled Stone (Lithomarge)
Archaeology (16 works) · History (15 works) · Art (14 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 works) · History (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Geology (7 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (7 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (7 works)