PAS member Margaret S Evans is an enthusiastic drawer of carved stones, and her home county of Fife has provided plenty of scope for her to practice her real istic and painstaking tone drawing style. The results are printed in this booklet, which she has published herself. Something of a calligrapher, Margaret has written out all the text as well as completing a large number of drawings of carved stones of various periods. These range chronologically from prehistoric standing stones to a Methil wall plaque of 1936. A goodly number of the early medieval stones of Fife (and three from Perth and Kinross) are shown, including both parts of the recently recovered Kilrenny cross-slab. I believe the Dunino Den incised cross and the Portmoak cross-slab have never been properly illustrated in print before.

Short historical notes are appended to each drawing, and the National Grid Reference number of each stone is quoted to allow it to be easily located. The book would make an attractive souvenir for visitors to Fife, being produced by a local artist, and illustrating a selection of the carved stones that give the Kingdom much of its historic character.

Niall M Robertson

Stone Carvings & Carved Stones in Fife can be obtained from most Fife museums and bookshops, or directly from the author at: Megart Publishing, North House, The Causeway, Kennoway, Fife KY8 5JU