Below is a list of abbreviations used throughout the carved stones chapters, with their full expansion. Links are provided where needed.
3D Three-dimensional
ACCORD Archaeology Community Co-production of Research Data
AMD Ancient Monuments Division
BEFS Built Environment Forum Scotland
BIM Building Information Modelling
CI Co-Investigator
CSAP Carved Stone Adviser Project
CSDAP Carved Stone Decay in Scotland Project
ECMS Early Christian Monuments of Scotland (Allen and Anderson 1903)
EH English Heritage (now also HE)
HE Historic England
EMSSS Early Medieval Stone Sculptures of Scotland
ERA England’s Rock Art
FCS Forestry Commission Scotland
GIS Geographic Information Systems
HEACS Historic Environment Advisory Council Scotland
HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England
HERALD Historic Environment Research Archives, Links and Data
HERs Historic Environment Records
HES Historic Environment Scotland
HLF Heritage Lottery Fund
HS Historic Scotland (now part of HES)
ICCROM International Centre for the Study and Restoration of Cultural Property
ICOMOS International Council on Monuments and Sites
ISCS International Scientific Committee for Stone [of ICOMOS]
LiDAR Light Detection and Ranging
MBGRG Moray Burial Ground Research Group
NADRAP Northumberland and Durham Rock Art Project
NAS National Archives of Scotland
NCCSS National Committee on Carved Stones in Scotland
NLS National Library of Scotland
NOSAS North of Scotland Archaeology Society
NMS National Museums of Scotland
NTS National Trust for Scotland
OASIS Online AccesS to the Index of archaeological investigationS
OPIT Our Place in Time (Scottish Government 2014)
PAS Pictish Arts Society
PI Principal Investigator
PKHT Perthshire and Kinross Heritage Trust
PMSA Public Monuments and Sculpture Association
RAPP Rock Art Pilot Project [of English Heritage]
RCAHMS Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (now
part of HES)
RAE Research Assessment Exercise
REF Research Excellence Framework
RMMC Runes, Monument and Memorial Carvings network
RSE Royal Society of Edinburgh
RTI Reflectance Transformation Imaging
SAFHS Scottish Association of Family History Societies
ScARF Scottish Archaeological Research Framework
SERF Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot
SG Scottish Government
SHEA Scottish Historic Environment Audit
SHED Scottish Historic Environment Data
SHEP Scottish Historic Environment Policy (Historic Scotland 2011)
SRP Scotland’s Rural Past
SUAT Scottish Urban Archaeological Trust
SWAPNET Stone Weathering and Atmospheric Pollution Network
TCRE Technical Conservation Research and Education
UK United Kingdom
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
WMF World Monuments Fund
WWI/II First World War/Second World War