Book Reviews

All of the reviews in this section have appeared in the PAS Journal(s). reviews are added to the list as they become available - so the latest book releases will tend to be toward the end of the listing.

1. McManus, M. A Guide to Ogam. Maynooth Monographs No 4 1991


2. Gimbutas, M The Civilisation of the Goddess: the World of Old Europe. Harper San Francisco 1991

3. Leckie, R. Grampian: A Country in Miniature. Canongate 1991

4. Penman, A Some Customs, Folklore and Superstitions of Galloway. Forward Press 1992

5. Beck, R W Scotland’s Native Horse GC Books 1992

6. Cruickshank, G The Battle of Dunnichen Pinkfoot Press 1991

7. Argyll Volume 7: Mid Argyll and Cowal, Medieval and Later Monuments RCAHMS 1992

8. Lines, M Sacred Stones Sacred Places. Saint Andrew Press 1992

9. Ramsay, D M Honey in the Mead (fiction). Pittenhope Publishing 1991

10. Laing, L & J Art of the Celts. Thames and Hudson 1992

11. Harbison, P The High Crosses of Ireland. Royal Irish Academy 1992

12. Laing, L &J The Picts and Scots. Alan Sutton 1993

13. Alcock, L The neighbours of the Picts: Angles, Britons and Scots at war and at home. Groam House Museum Trust 1993

14. Tabraham, C (Ed) The ancient monuments of Shetland. HMSO 1993

15. ECMS - A facsimile Edition Pinkfoot Press 1992

16. Ritchie, A Viking Scotland. Batsford 1993

17. Allen & Anderson, Early Christian Monuments of Scotland. Pinkfoot Press 1993

18. Laing, L A Catalogue of Celtic Ornamental Metalwork in the British Isles c AD400-1200. BAR British Series229 1993

19. Rennie, E B Cowal: A Historical Guide. Birlinn 1993

20. Bain, I Celtic Key Patterns. Constable 1993

21. Marsden, J. The Tombs of the Kings: An Iona Book of the Dead. Llanerch 1994

22. Ellsworth, R& Ellis P B The Book of Deer. Constable 1994

23. James, S Exploring the World of the Celts. Thames and Hudson 1993

24. RCAHMS, Pictish Symbol Stones: A Handlist 1994

25. Ritchie, A Perceptions of the Picts: from Eumenius to John Buchan. Groam House Museum Trust 1993

26. Ramsay, D M The Flame Within (fiction). Pittenhope Publishing 1993

27. Kermode, P M C, Manx Crosses. Pinkfoot Press 1994 reprint (1907)

28. Sutherland, E In Search of the Picts Constable 1994

29. Hicks, C Animals in Early Medieval Art. Edinburgh University Press 1993

30. Dunbar, J G & Fisher I Iona: a guide to the monuments. RCAHMS 1995

31. Fojut, N, Pringle, D & Walker, B The ancient monuments of the Western Isles. Historic Scotland HMSO 1994

32. Watson, A The Ochils: Placenames History and Tradition. Perth and Kinross Libraries 1995

33. Crawford, B Earl & Mormaer: Norse-Pictish relationships in Northern Scotland. Groam House Museum Trust 1995

34. Graham-Campbell, J The Viking Age Gold and Silver of Scotland. NMS 1995

35. O’Clancy, T O & Markus, G Iona: the Earliest Poetry of a Celtic Monastery Edinburgh University Press 1995

36. Exploring Scotland's Heritage Series, various authors RCAHMS

37. Foster, S M Picts, Gaels and Scots. Historic Scotland/Batsford 1996

38. Peterson, E The Message of Scotland’s Symbol Stones. PCD Ruthven Books 1996

39. The Age of the Picts by W. A. Cummins

40. Photographing Carved Stones: A Practical Guide to Recording Scotland's Past by Tom E. Gray and Leslie M. Ferguson

41. The Recessed Platforms of Argyll, Bute and Inverness by Elizabeth B. Rennie

42. Field Guide to the Pictish Symbol Stones by AIastair Mack

43. Elizabeth Sutherland The Pictish Guide. Birlinn, Edinburgh 1997

44. Settlements at Skaill, Deerness, Orkney, Excavations by Peter Gelling of the Prehistoric, Pictish, Viking and Later Periods

45. Celtic Scotland by Ian Armit

46. The Sculptured Stones of Caithness a survey by Tim Blackie and Colin Macaulay

47. Barbarian Warriors: Saxons, Vikings, Normans by Dan and Susanna Shadrake, 1997.

48. The Horse in Celtic Culture: Medieval Welsh Perspectives edited by Sioned Davies and Nerys Ann Jones, 1997.

49. Who Built the Platforms? - The Recessed Platforms of the West of Scotland by Elizabeth B Rennie, 1998.

50. Celtic Art: the Methods of Construction by George Bain (reprinted 1996).

51. Stone Carvings and Carved Stones in Fife by M S Evans, 1998.

52. The Language of the Ogham Inscriptions of Scotland by Richard A.V. Cox, 1999

53. Surviving in Symbols: A Visit to the Pictish Nation by Martin Carver, 1999.