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Spring 1296 saw the outbreak of savage war between the two kingdoms of Britain. While a Scottish host ravaged northern England, Edward I's English army laid waste to Berwick, Scotland's largest town.
THE common crane has bred successfully in Scotland for the first time since the Middle Ages in a major boost for ornithology north of the Border, it emerged yesterday. Sign up to our Scotsman ...
Archaeologists say they've found the ruins of a soccer field in southwest Scotland that date to the 17th century ...
University of Aberdeen New findings uncovered by archaeologists from the University of Aberdeen at Burghead Fort near Lossiemouth, Scotland may shed light on the complex power structures of the ...
Scotland regained the Western Isles from Scandinavian ... also became weak and disorganised in the later Middle Ages. The conflict between Henry II and Archbishop Thomas Becket, who was killed ...
was created around 800 CE in a Scottish island monastery and is now preserved in Trinity College Library in Dublin. Monastery architecture was pretty basic in the early Middle Ages. Around the ...