Publications

This year saw the publication of the much-needed popular booklet on medieval Perth. Commissioned and encouraged by Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust, it was written by David Bowler and published in May. With its up-to-date account of the archaeology and early history of the burgh, attractive colour illustrations and booklet format, it has proved a worthy successor to SUAT’s own Perth booklet, now long out of print.

Derek Hall and Catherine Smith collaborated to provide a chapter on medieval archaeology for a new history textbook, to be used jointly by the University of Dundee and the Open University distance learning programme in Scottish History.

Catherine Smith’s paper on animals in the home for the Compendium of Scottish Ethnology was published in November, using a photograph of a 1950s domestic scene taken by her father for the front cover of the volume.

Derek Hall’s book ‘Scottish Monastic Landscapes’ was published by Tempus in November and contains the results of the research and fieldwork undertaken during the monastic granges and industries and hospitals projects in an attractively illustrated format.

Finally it is encouraging to note that SUAT’s archaeological work in Dundee has not gone unappreciated: local author Dr Norman Watson in his latest best-selling book, Dundee: A Short History ‘congratulates. SUAT for its pioneering excavations and monitoring work in Dundee’, and makes particular references to David Perry’s (2005) TAFAJ monograph on the burgh.

Recent Publications

Bowler, D 2006 The Origins of Perth: A Medieval Royal Burgh. Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust. Perth.

Hall, D W 2006 Scottish Monastic Landscapes. Tempus Publishing Ltd. Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Hall, D W 2006 ‘‘Unto yone hospitall at tounis end’: the Scottish medieval hospital’, Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal 12, 89-106. Perth.

Hall, D W and Smith, C 2006 ‘Medieval Archaeology’ in Harris, B and MacDonald, A R Scotland the Making and Unmaking of the Nation c1100-1707. Vol 1, 139-157. Dundee University Press/The Open University in Scotland. Dundee.

Hall, M, Hall, D and Cook G 2006 ‘What’s cooking? New radiocarbon dates from the earliest phases of the Perth High Street excavations and the question of Perth’s early medieval origin’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 135 (2005), 273-285

Smith, C 2006 ‘Animals’ in Storrier, S (ed) Scottish Life and Society. A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, Vol 6. Scotland’s Domestic Life, 581-96. John Donald/The European Ethnological Research Centre/National Museums of Scotland. Edinburgh.

A full cumulative SUAT bibliography is available at Publications.