Scotland's First Warriors

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

FIRST FARMERS

Violence in the Neolithic

Cuween, Orkney

THE EMERGENCE OF WARRIORS

From Stone to Bronze

Daggers and Death

The Collessie and Rameldry Dagger Burials

The First Weapons of War

Bronze Shields

The Thirlestane Spearhead and Yetholm Shields

SWORDS AND SOCIETY

Disrupted Lives

Who Was Involved in Conflict?

Engineers of War

Swords

The Inverbroom Sword

FAREWELL TO ARMS

Weapons in Watery Depths

Duddingston Loch Weapon Assemblage

The Beith Shield

Weapons Buried Close to Home: The Carnoustie Hoard

A LANDSCAPE OF DEFENCE

Iron and Bone Weapons

Hillforts

Vitrified Forts

Return of the Warrior: The Marshill Burial

FROM WARRIORS TO SOLDIERS

Roman Armour

Newstead Parade Helmet, Scottish Borders

BIBLIOGRAPHY

About the Author

Matthew G. Knight is Senior Curator of Prehistory at National Museums Scotland. He specialises in the treatment and deposition of material culture in the Bronze Age and has published widely on fragmentation, hoarding and the curation of already ancient objects in the past.

Hannah Boddy is an Exhibitions and Displays Officer at National Museums Scotland. She specialises in interpretation and has worked on many of the museum’s archaeological exhibitions over the last 10 years.