4.9 Neolithic Bibliography

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Anderson, S 2017 ‘A prehistoric cremation burial at Duns Law Farm, near Duns, Scottish Borders’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 147, 29-47. 

Anderson-Whymark, H 2020 ‘Maceheads’, in Card, N, Edmonds, M and Mitchell, A (eds) The Ness of Brodgar as it Stands, Kirkwall: The Orcadian (Kirkwall Press), 244-253. 

Anonymous 1966 ‘Donations to and purchases for the Museum 1964-5’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 98 (1964-66), 326-344. 

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Ballin, T B 2009 Archaeological Pitchstone in Northern Britain: characterization and interpretation of an important prehistoric source, BAR British Series 476, Oxford: Archaeopress. 

Ballin, T B 2011 Overhowden and Airhouse, Scottish Borders: characterization and interpretation of two spectacular lithic assemblages from sites near the Overhowden henge. BAR British Series 539. Oxford: Archaeopress. 

Ballin, T B 2015 ‘Arran pitchstone (Scottish volcanic glass): new dating evidence’, Journal of Lithic Studies 2(1), 5-16.  

Ballin, T B 2019 ‘Lithic artefacts’, in Spence, B (ed) ARO35: Neolithic Pits and Bronze Age Settlement at Colinhill, Strathaven, Glasgow: GUARD Archaeology.  https://www.archaeologyreportsonline.com/PDF/ARO35_Colinhill.pdf 

Ballin Smith, B, Hunter Blair, A and Baillie, W 2025 ARO60: Neolithic Timber Halls and a Bronze Age Settlement with Hoard at Carnoustie, Angus, Glasgow: GUARD Archaeology. https://www.archaeologyreportsonline.com/reports/2025/ARO60.html 

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Bradley, R J 2005 The Moon and the Bonfire: an investigation of three stone circles in north-east Scotland, Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.  

Bradley, R J 2011 Stages and Screens. An investigation of four henge monuments in northern and north-eastern Scotland, Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.  

Breeze, D J, Jones, R H and Oltean, I A 2015 Understanding Roman Frontiers: a celebration for Professor Bill Hanson, Edinburgh: John Donald. 

Brophy, K 2007 ‘From big houses to cult houses: Early Neolithic timber halls in Scotland’, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 73, 75-96. 

Brophy, K 2016 Reading Between the Lines: the Neolithic cursus monuments of Scotland, London: Routledge.  

Brophy, K and Noble, G 2020 Prehistoric Forteviot: excavations of a ceremonial complex in eastern Scotland, SERF Monograph 1, CBA Research Report 176, York: Council for British Archaeology. 

Burgess, C 1976 ‘Meldon Bridge: a Neolithic defended promontory complex near Peebles’, in Burgess, C and Miket, R (eds) Settlement and Economy in the Third and Second Millennia BC, British Archaeological Reports 33, Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 151-179.  

Burl, A 2000 The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany, 2nd Edition, New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 

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Callander, J G 1916 ‘Notice of a jet necklace found in a cist in a Bronze Age cemetery, discovered on Burgie Lodge Farm, Morayshire, with notes on Scottish prehistoric jet ornaments’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 50, 201-240. 

Callander, J G 1929 ‘Scottish Neo pottery’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 63 (1928-29), 29-98. 

Carter, S, Hunter, F J, Smith, A, Hastie, M, Lancaster, S, Dalland, M et al 2010 ‘A 5th century BC Iron Age chariot burial from Newbridge, Edinburgh’, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 76, 31-74. 

Cassidy, L M 2023 ‘Islands apart? Genomic perspectives on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Ireland’, in Whittle, A, Pollard, J and Greaney, S (eds), Ancient DNA and the European Neolithic: relations and descent, Oxford: Oxbow, 147-67. 

Clark, J G D 1929 ‘Discoidal polished flint knives – their typology and distribution’, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia 6 (1), 41-54. 

Clarke, D V 1968 ‘Two jadeite axes, and two arrowheads of porcellanite and Rhum bloodstone from Scotland’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 100, 185-8. 

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Coles, F R 1903 ‘Notices of (1) the camp at Montgoldrum and other antiquities in Kincardineshire; (2) a stone circle called The Harestones in Peeblesshire; (3) a cairn and standing stones at Old Liston, and other standing stones in Midlothian and Fife; (4) of some hitherto undescribed cup and ring-marked stones; and (5) recent discoveries of urns’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 37 (1902-1903), 193-232. 

Cook, M 2000 ‘Excavation of Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement features at Lamb’s Nursery, Dalkeith, Midlothian’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 130, 93-113. 

Copper, M 2024 ‘Scottish Grooved Ware beyond Orkney’, in: Copper, M, Whittle, A and Sheridan, J A (eds) Revisiting Grooved Ware: understanding ceramic trajectories in Britain and Ireland, 32002400 cal BC, Oxford: Oxbow, 49-63. 

Copper, M, Hamilton, D and Gibson, A M 2021 ‘Tracing the lines: Scottish Grooved Ware trajectories beyond Orkney’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 150, 81-117. 

Corcoran, J X W P 1966 ‘Excavation of three chambered cairns at Loch Calder, Caithness’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 98 (1964-66), 1-75. 

Cowie, T G 1978 ‘Excavations at the Catstane, Midlothian 1977’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 109 (1977-78), 166-201. 

Cramp et al 2014 Immediate replacement 

Cramp, L 2014 ‘Investigation of preserved organic residues from Early Neolithic sherds from The Hirsel using lipid analysis’, in Cramp, R J 2014 The Hirsel Excavations, London: The Society for Medieval Archaeology, 339. 

Cramp, R J 2014 The Hirsel Excavations, Society for Medieval Archaeology (Monograph 36), London: The Society for Medieval Archaeology. 

Cree, J E 1908 ‘Notice of a prehistoric kitchen-midden and superimposed mediaeval stone floor found at Tusculum, North Berwick’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 42 (1907-1908), 253-294. 

Curle, A O 1908 ‘Notice of the examination of prehistoric kitchen middens on the Archerfield Estate, near Gullane, Haddingtonshire, in November 1907’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 42 (1907-1908), 308-319. 

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Durden, T 1995 ‘The production of specialised flintwork in the later Neolithic: a case study from the Yorkshire Wolds’, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 61, 409-432. 

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Edinborough, K, Shennan, S, Teather, A, Baczkowski, J, Bevan, A, Bradley, R, Cook, G, Kerig, T, Parker Person, M and Schauer, P 2019 ‘New radiocarbon dates show Early Neolithic date of flint-mining and stone quarrying in Britain’, Radiocarbon 62 (1), 75-105. 

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Fairweather, A D and Ralston, I B M 1993 ‘The Neolithic timber hall at Balbridie, Grampian Region, Scotland: the building, the date, the plant macrofossils’, Antiquity 67 (255), 313-23. 

Fenton-Thomas, C 2009 A Place by the Sea: excavations at Sewerby Cottage Farm, Bridlington, York: On-Site Archaeology Ltd. 

Forsythe, W and Gregory, N 2007 ‘A Neolithic logboat from Greyabbey Bay, County Down’, Ulster Journal of Archaeology 66, 6-13. 

Foster, S and Stevenson, J B 2002 ‘The Auchenlaich long cairn’, in Barclay, G J, Brophy, K and MacGregor, G, ‘Claish, Stirling: an Early Neolithic structure in its context’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 132, 114-19 (65-137). 

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Gibson, A M 2010 ‘Dating Balbirnie: recent radiocarbon dates from the stone circle and cairn at Balbirnie, Fife, and a review of its place within the overall Balfarg/Balbirnie site sequence’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 140, 51-77. 

Gibson, A M 2012 ‘An introduction to the study of henges: time for a change?’, in Gibson, A M (ed) Enclosing the Neolithic: recent studies in Britain and Ireland, BAR International Series 2440, Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1-20. 

Gibson, A M and Bayliss, A 2009 ‘Recent research at Duggleby Howe, North Yorkshire’, Archaeological Journal 166, 39–78. 

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Halliday, S 2022 ‘A Peeblesshire Puzzle: antiquaries, Roman camps and LiDAR’, Peeblesshire Archaeological Society Newsletter December 2022, 4-12. 

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Hanson, W S 2002 ‘Amongst the field systems I: Monktonhall’, in Bishop, M C (ed) 2002, Roman Inveresk: past, present and future, Duns: The Armatvra Press, 52-61.  

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Hunter Blair, A 2019 Meadowfield Farm, West Craigs, Edinburgh: metal detecting survey, field walking survey and trial trench excavation. Data Structure Report. Glasgow: GUARD Archaeology. 

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Johnson, M 2020 ‘Prehistoric pottery’, in Kirby, M (ed) ‘Excavations at Musselburgh Primary Health Care Centre: Iron Age and Roman discoveries to the north of Inveresk Roman Fort, East Lothian’, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 89, 121. https://doi.org/10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2020.89  

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Kdolska, H and Connolly, D, 2020 ‘Search for a lost Neolithic site in south-east Scotland’, Past: The Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society 95, 4-7. https://www.prehistoricsociety.org/sites/prehistoricsociety.org/files/publications/past/past95.pdf 

Kenworthy, J 1976 Ardiffery 

Kinnes, I A 1992a Non-Megalithic Long Barrows and Allied Structures in the British Neolithic. British Museum Occasional Paper 52, London: The British Museum. 

Kinnes, I A 1992b ‘Balnagowan and after: the context of non-megalithic mortuary sites in Scotland’, in: Sharples N M and Sheridan J A (eds), Vessels for the Ancestors: essays on the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland in honour of Audrey Henshall, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 83-103. 

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Lelong, O and MacGregor, G 2007 The Lands of Ancient Lothian: interpreting the archaeology of the A1, Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.  

Lelong, O and Pollard, T 1998 ‘The excavation and survey of prehistoric enclosures at Blackhouse Burn, Lanarkshire’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 128, 13-53. 

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MacGregor, G and McLellan, K 2007 ‘A burning desire to build: excavations at Eweford West and Pencraig Hill (3950-3380 BC)’, in Lelong, O and MacGregor, G (eds) The Lands of Ancient Lothian; interpreting the archaeology of the A1, Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 15-45. 

MacGregor, G and Stuart, E 2007 ‘Everything in its place: excavations at Eweford West, Overhailes, Pencraig Wood and Eweford Cottages (3300-1700 BC)’, in Lelong, O and MacGregor, G (eds) The Lands of Ancient Lothian; interpreting the archaeology of the A1, Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 69-98. 

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MacSween, A 2025 ‘Impressed Ware from Scotland and Northumberland – a review’, in Barclay, A and Gibson, A (eds) Neolithic Impressed and Related Wares in Britain and Ireland, Oxford: Oxbow, 185-200. 

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Sheridan, J A 2016 ‘Scottish Neolithic pottery in 2016: the big picture and some details of the narrative’, in Hunter, F J and Sheridan, J A (eds) Ancient Lives. Object, People and Place in Early Scotland. Essays for David V Clarke on his 70th Birthday, Leiden: Sidestone, 189–212. 

Sheridan, J A 2023a ‘Lochhill and Slewcairn: completing two important projects by the late Lionel Masters’, A Touch of GAS 91, 5–13. 

Sheridan, J A 2023b ‘Jet/jet-like artefacts: Neolithic’, in Boughey, K A (ed) Tale of Two Collectors: the lithic collections of Geoggrey Taylor and David Heys, Oxford: Archaeopress, 59-61. 

Sheridan, J A 2024 ‘Grooved Ware in Britain and Ireland, 2023: retrospect and prospect’, in Copper, M, Whittle, A and Sheridan, J A (eds) Revisiting Grooved Ware: understanding ceramic trajectories in Britain and Ireland, 32002400 cal BC, Oxford: Oxbow, 283-94. 

Sheridan, J A, Pétrequin, P, Errera, M, Pailler, Y and  Ó Maoldúin, R in press ‘Neolithic axe-heads of jadeitite and other Alpine rock types in Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man: the impact of Projet JADE on our understanding of these ‘green treasures from the magic mountains’, in Jones, A M, Cadbury, T, Dawson, D, Quinnell, H and Tyacke, A (eds) Sourcing Prehistoric Materials new perspectives, Oxford: Archaeopress.  

Sheridan, J A and Pailler, Y, 2012 ‘Les haches alpines et leurs imitations en Grande Bretagne, Irlande et dans les Iles anglo-normandes’, in Pétrequin, P, Cassen, S, Errera, M, Klassen, L, Sheridan, J A and. Pétrequin, A-M (eds) JADE. Grandes haches alpines du Néolithique européen. Ve et IVe millénaires av J-C Tome 2, Besançon and Gray: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté and Centre de Recherche Archéologique de la Vallée de l’Ain, 1046–87. 

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Sheridan, J A and Whittle, A 2023 ‘Ancient DNA and modelling the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain and Ireland’, in:  Whittle, A, Pollard, J and Greaney, S (eds), Ancient DNA and the European Neolithic: relations and descent, Oxford: Oxbow, 169–81. 

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