The following is a list of all the abbreviations that are commonly in use throughout the Highland Archaeological Research Framework.
A back to the top
AA Anti-aircraft
ADS Archaeology Data Service
AOC All over cord
ARCH Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands
ARO Archaeological Reports Online
B back to the top
B&BP Beakers and Bodies Project
BA Bronze Age
BM British Museum
BP Before Present (with present defined as 1950)
BPP Beaker Peoples Project
B&S Badenoch and Strathspey
C back to the top
C Caithness
cal calibrated
cAR Complex Atlantic Roundhouse
CB Carinated Bowl
cr cremation
D back to the top
DBA Desk based assessment
DCM Dunrobin Castle Museum
DES Discovery and Excavation in Scotland
DSR Data Structure Report
E back to the top
EBA Early Bronze Age
EHG Event record for Highland HER
ER Easter Ross
F back to the top
FoC Feats of Clay project (Clark et al 2017)
G back to the top
H back to the top
HER Highland Historic Environment Record
HES Historic Environment Scotland
HFM Highland Folk Museum
HIE Highlands and Islands Enterprise
HMSO Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
I back to the top
I inhumation
I Inverness
IMAG Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
J back to the top
K back to the top
L back to the top
L Lochaber
LBA Late Bronze Age
M back to the top
MBA Middle Bronze Age
Md Metal Detector
MHG Monument record for Highland HER
MR Mid Ross
N back to the top
nd No Date
N Nairnshire
NCAP National Collection of Aerial Photography
NCVC North Coast Visitor Centre, formerly Caithness Horizons Museum
NGR National Grid Reference
NLS National Library of Scotland
NMCB Neolithic Modified Carinated Bowl pottery
NMS National Museums Scotland
NoSAS North of Scotland Archaeological Society
NSA New Statistical Account
NRS National Records of Scotland
NTS National Trust for Scotland
NWS Northwest Sutherland
O back to the top
OC Orkney-Cromarty
OD Ordnance datum
ONB Old Name Books
OS Ordnance Survey
OSA Old Statistical Account
OSL Optical Stimulated Luminescence dating
P back to the top
PSAS Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Q back to the top
R back to the top
RARFA Regional Archaeological Research Framework for Argyll
RCAHMS Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
S back to the top
S Sutherland
SAIR Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
SFS Scotland’s First Settlers Project (Hardy & Wickham Jones 2009)
SSPCK Society in Scotland for the Propagating of Christian Knowledge
T back to the top
TDC Tarbat Discovery Centre
tpq terminus post quem
TT Treasure Trove
U back to the top
UHI University of the Highlands and Islands
V back to the top
W back to the top
WR Wester Ross