Scottish Rock Art

Books 

Bradley, R. (1997) Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe. Routledge

Bradley, R., (2000). The Good Stones: A New Investigation of the Clava Stones. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Butter, R. (1999). Kilmartin. An Introduction and Guide. Kilmartin: Kilmartin House Trust

Jones, A.; Freedman, D.; O’Connor, B.; Lamdin-Whymark, H. (2011) An Animate Landscape: Rock Art and the Prehistory of Kilmartin. Windgather Press

Morris, R. (1977) The Prehistoric Rock Art of Argyll. Dolphin Press

Morris, R. (1979) The Prehistoric Rock Art of Galloway and the Isle of Man. Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press

Morris, R. (1981) The Prehistoric Rock Art of Scotland (except Argyll and Galloway). BAR. Oxford: Archaeopress

Webb, S. (2012). In the Footsteps of Kings. A New Guide to Walks in and around Kilmartin Glen. Kilmartin: Kilmartin House Trust

 

Chapters in Books

Card, N. and Thomas, A., 2012. Painting a picture of the Neolithic: decorated stonework from the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney. In: A. COCHRANE and A.M. JONES, (eds), Visualising the Neolithic: Abstraction, Figuration, Performance, Representation. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 111–124.

Foster, S.M., 2010. Shaping up rock art in Scotland: past progress, future directions. In: T. Barnett and K. Sharpe, (eds), Carving a Future for British Rock Art. New Directions for Research, Management and Presentation. Oxford and Oakville: Oxbow Books, pp. 82–93.

Graham, R.C., (1902). Sculptured stones of Scotland. In: J. PATON, (ed), Scottish History and Life. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, pp. 34–46.

Jones, A. (2001). Enduring images? Image production and memory in earlier Bronze Age Scotland. In: J. BRÜCK, (ed), Bronze Age Landscapes: Tradition and Transformation. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 217–228.

Jones, A.M. (2009). Breaking Down and Cracking Up: rock art and the materiality of stone in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland. In J. O’Connor, B.; Cooney, G.; Chapman, (ed). Materialitas: working stone, carving identity. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Was, J. and Watson, A. (2016) Living Symbols of Kilmartin Glen. In Chittock, H. and Valdez-Tullett, J. (ed) Archaeology with Art. Oxford: Archaeopress

 

Journal Articles

Allen, J.R., (1882). Notes on some undescribed stones with cup-markings in Scotland. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 16 (1881–2), pp. 79–143.

Bruce, J. (1896). Notice of remarkable groups of archaic sculpturings in Dunbartonshire and Stirlingshire. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 30 (1895–6), pp. 205–209.

Bradley, R. (1998). Incised motifs in the passage graves at Quoyness and Cuween, Orkney. Antiquity, 72, pp. 387–390.

Bradley, R., Phillips, T., Richards, C. and Webb, M. (2000). Decorating the houses of the dead: incised and pecked motifs at Orkney chambered tombs. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 11(1), pp. 45–67.

Bradley, R. and Watson, A. (2009) Excavating prehistoric rock carvings on Ben Lawers, The Archaeologist, 74, pp. 34-35

Bradley, R. and Watson, A. (2012). Ben Lawers: carved rocks on a loud mountain. In: A. Cochrane and A. M. Jones, (eds), Visualising the Neolithic: Abstraction, Figuration, Performance, Representation. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 64–78.

Bradley, R., Watson, A. and Anderson-Whymark, H. (2012). Excavations at four prehistoric rock carvings on the Ben Lawers Estate, 2007–2010. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 142, pp. 27–61.

British Archaeology, (2013). Dramatic rock art discoveries near Inverness [Swordale Hill]. British Archaeology, 130, pp. 6.

Card, N., (2013). Ness of Brodgar. More than a stone circle. British Archaeology, (January February), pp. 14–21.

Catling, C., (2013). Great crowns of stone. The recumbent stone circles of Scotland. Current Archaeology, 277, pp. 28–33.

Childe, G. and Taylor, J., (1939). Rock scribings at Hawthornden, Midlothian. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 73 (1938–9), pp. 316–318.

Coles, D., Miles, D. and Walking, T. (2010). A pecked stone from a Neolithic settlement site at Green, Isle of Eday, Orkney. PAST The Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society, 65, pp. 15–16.

Current Archaeology, (2012). Second sister for the Orkney Venus. Current Archaeology, 272, pp. 8.

Current Archaeology, (2013). Ancient artwork from the Ness of Brodgar. Current Archaeology, (283), pp. 7.

Curtis, N. and Jaffray, A., (1991). Auchalick Wood (Kilfinan parish). Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 1991, pp. 59–59.

Edwards, A.J.H., 1935. Rock sculpturings at Traprain Law, East Lothian. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 69 (1934–5), pp. 122–137.

Edwards, A.J.H. and Low, A., 1933. Short cists in Roxburgh and Sutherland, and rock sculpturings in a Cave at Wemyss, Fife. With a report on the human remains contained in the cists. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 67 (1932–3), pp. 164–176.

Hilts, C. (2014). Orkney's oldest art at the Smerquoy 'hoose'. Current Archaeology, 291, pp. 42–43.

Jones, A. M. (2006) ‘Animated Images: Images, Agency and Landscape in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland’, Journal of Material Culture, 11(1–2), pp. 211–225.

Jones, A.M., Anderson-Whymark, H. and Watson, A., (2012). Animating Kilmartin. British Archaeology, 126, pp. 14–21.

Loveday, R., Anderson-Whymark, H., Card, N. and Thomas, A., (2012). Chiselling marks at Maeshowe. PAST The Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society, 72, pp. 5–7.

Morris, R.; Bailey, D. (1964) The cup-and-ring marks and similar sculptures of SW Scotland: a survey, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 98, pp. 150–172

Morris, R.; Van Hoek, M. (1987) Rock carvings in the Garlieston area, Wigtown District, Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquaruan Society, 62, pp. 32–39

Foster, S.M., 2013. An Animate Landscape: Rock Art and the Prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland. European Journal of Archaeology, 16(4), pp. 742–747.

Mackenzie, J.B., (1895). Notice of the discovery of incised cup- and ring-sculpturings at Braes of Balloch near Taymouth Castle. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 29 (1894–5), pp. 94–95.

Mackie, E. and Davis, A., (1989). New light on Neolithic rock carving. The petroglyphs at Greenland (Auchentorlie), Dunbartonshire. Glasgow Archaeological Journal, 15 (1988–9), pp. 125–155.

Mackintosh Gow, J., (1886). Notice of cup-marked stones and curing well on the Estate of Garth, Fortingall, Perthshire. With drawings. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 8 (1885–6), pp. 41–46.

Macmillian, H., (1884). Notice of cup-marked stones near Aberfeldy. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 6 (1883–4), pp. 109–128.

Mapleton, R.J., (1870a). Notice of remarkable cists in a gravel bank near Kilmartin, and of incised sculpturing of axe-heads and other markings on the stones of the cists. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 8 (1868–70), pp. 378–381.

Mapleton, R.J., (1870b). Note on a cist with engraved stones on the Poltalloch Estate, County of Argyll, N.B. Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, 2 (1869–70)(3), pp. 340–342.

Phillips, T. and Bradley, R., (2000). Pick-dressing in the Neolithic monuments of Orkney. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 22(2), pp. 103–110.

RCAHMS, (1988). Argyll: An Inventory of the Monuments, Volume 6. Mid Argyll & Cowal. Prehistoric and Early Historic Monuments. Glasgow: HMSO.

Scott, J.G., (1989). The stone circles at Temple Wood, Kilmartin, Argyll. Glasgow Archaeological Journal, 15, pp. 53–124.

Simpson, J.Y., (1868). On ancient sculpturings of cups and concentric rings. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 6 (1864–6), Appendix pp. 1–134

Stevenson, J.B., (1993). Cup- and ring-markings at Ballochmyle, Ayrshire. Glasgow Archaeological Journal, 18, pp. 33–40.