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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.
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 ...
An archaeological discovery in Scotland is stirring up debate about the origins of soccer. England has long claimed to be the ...
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 ...
SCOTTISH universities are inherently conservative institutions which have "survived intact" since the Middle Ages, according to a leading sector figure. Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski ...
They are such a rare thing,” Avon Archaeology Highland senior archaeologist Andy Young said, when a building team unearthed a ...
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 ...