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A.A. Duncan, Scotland: The Making of the Kingdom (Edinburgh 1975) covers the early period in great detail. Smyth, Warlords and Holy Men, provides challenging new interpretations on Pictish society and kingship. A more traditional approach is given in M.O. Anderson, Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland (Edinburgh 1973). For an anthropologist's interpretation of Pictish symbol stones see A. Jackson. The Symbol Stones of Scotland (Stromness 1984). The Picts are dealt with in F.G.P. Friell and W.G. Watson (eds), Pictish Studies, BAR, 125, Oxford 1984, and A. Small (ed.), The Picts: A New Look at Old Problems (Dundee 1987). For a recent study with an archaeological emphasis see L. and J. Laing, The Picts and Scots (Stroud 1993). G.W.S. Barrow, The Kingdom of the Scots (London 1973) brings together a number of earlier publications on themes including rural settlement, multiple estates and land denominations~ Similar ground is coveted more comprehensively in RA. Dodgshon, Land and Society in Early Scotland (Oxford 1981). W.F.H. Nicolaisen, Scottish Place Names (London 1976) is the standard work on Anglian, British, Pictish and Scottish place-names. G. Whittington, Placenames and the settlement of Dark Age Scotland, PSAS, 106, 1977,99-110 provides a model for the geographical study of place names. LA. Morrison, Landscape with Lake Dwellings (Edinburgh 1976) looks in detail at crannogs. The Norse settlement is covered by B. Crawford, Scandinavian Scotland (Leicester 1987), usefully supplemented by A. Fenton andH. Palsson (eds), The. Northern and Western Isles in the Viking World (Edinburgh 1984). A number of 1. Alcock's excavations of early historic sites have been published in PSAS in recent years: 1. Alcock, E.A. Alcock and S.M. Foster, Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland 1974-84: 1. Excavations near St. Abb's Head, Berwickshire, 1980 PSAS, 116, 1986, 255-80, 1. Alcock and E.A. Alcock, Reconnaissance excavation on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84: 2,
Excavations at Dunollie Castle, Oban, Argyll, 1978, PSAS, 117, 1987, 119-48, 1. Alcock, E.A. Alcock and S.T. Driscoll, Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland: 3, Dundurn, PSAS, 119, 1989, 189-226, 1. Alcock and E.A. Alcock, Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84: 4, Excavations at Alt Clut, Clyde Rock, Strathdyde, 1974-75, PSAS, 120, 1990, 95-150, and, 1. Alcock and E.A. Alcock, Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1975-84: 5, A. Excavations and other fieldwork at Forteviot, Perthshire, 1981: B. Excavations at Urquhart Castle, Inverness-shire, 1983: C. Excavations at Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, 1984, PSAS, 122, 1992, 215-88. Economic aspects of the period are highlighted in 1. Alcock, Economy, Society and Warfare among the Britons and Saxons (Cardiff 1987). S.T. Driscoll and M.R Nieke (eds) , Power and Politics in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland (Edinburgh 1988). ].c. Chapman and H.C. Mytum, Settlement in north Britain 1000BC-ADlOOO (BAR, 118, Oxford 1983) contains important chapters on early historic settlement and society. FJ. Byrne, Irish Kings and High Kings (London 1973) and RB. Warner, The archaeology of early Irish kingship, in Driscoll and Nieke, Power and Politics, 47-68 provides interesting material for comparison with Scotland. The text of the Senchus, with a commentary, is given in ].W. Bannerman, Studies in the History of Dalriada (Edinburgh 1974).
