24 April 2012

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Historic Scotland’s Scheduling team is heading to Argyll in May to visit around 120 scheduled monuments across the region, and assess a number of new sites which may be scheduled for the first time. Scheduled monuments are of national importance and legally protected under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. Currently there are some 8,200 scheduled monuments across Scotland, ranging from the earliest traces of humankind around 10,000 years ago, up to and including remains from the Second World War.

23 April 2012

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Historic Scotland is hosting a public meeting to present the results of research carried out on the seventh-century battle of Dún Nechtain, as part of a project to produce an Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland.

18 April 2012

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Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs today, Wednesday 18th April, announced the latest rounds of Historic Scotland’s Building Grants funding at Riddle’s Court, Lawnmarket in Edinburgh, which forms part of Edinburgh’s World Heritage Site.

12 April 2012

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On World Heritage Day, Historic Scotland’s ‘Shadows of Our Ancestors’ project will be celebrating Scotland’s five World Heritage Sites – The Antonine Wall, The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh, The Heart of Neolithic Orkney, New Lanark and St Kilda.

11 April 2012

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International experts are gathering this week on Iona to discuss the history of the island and its globally-important collection of carved stones.