CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
in reverse order

Last updated 13/11/22


2022

  • ‘Buildings associated with Scots in Europe: two case studies, in France and Lithuania’, SVBWG, Vernacular Building, 45 (2022), 87-108

  • ‘Obituary: Ian Fisher (8 June 1943-5 September 2021)’, SVBWG, Vernacular Building, 45 (2022), 128-30

2021

  • ‘Ian Fisher MA FSA FSAScot’, Roll of Fellows, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, available online here and here

  • ‘"Early Flatting in Scotland": a further response’, SVBWG, Vernacular Building, 44 (2021), 148-9

  • ‘Ian Fisher FSA’, Salon (Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter): Issue 477, 29 September 2021, available online here

  • Review of Craig Armstrong, Orkney & Scapa Flow at War, 1939-1945 (Barnsley, 2020), Casemate, 122 (September, 2021), 53

  • ‘Historic Environment Scotland’s Castle Conservation Register’, The Castle Studies Group Bulletin, 33 (January 2021), 11-12

  • ‘Historic Environment Scotland’s Statements of Significance for Castles, Palaces and Forts in State Care’, The Castle Studies Group Bulletin, 33 (January 2021), 13-17

2020

  • (with Stephanie Weinraub) ‘An Ayrshire Gazetteer’, The Castle Studies Group Journal, 34 (2020-1), 4-37

  • ‘Early Flatting in Scotland, Part 2: Evaluating the Parallels and Explanations’, SVBWG, Vernacular Building, 43 (2020), 79-96

  • - Review of Audrey M Thorstad, The Culture of Castles in Tudor England and Wales (Woodbridge, 2019), The Innes Review, 71.2 (2020), 272-5

  • Review of Wayne Cocroft and Paul Stamper (eds), Legacies of the First World War: Building for Total War 1914-18 (Swindon, 2018), Industrial Archaeology Review, 42/2 (2020), 170, available online here

2019

  • ‘Early Flatting in Scotland, Part 1: Documentary and Physical Evidence’, SVBWG, Vernacular Building, 42 (2019), 19-38

  • Review of Miles Glendinning and Aonghus MacKechnie, Scotch Baronial (London, 2019), The Castle Studies Group Journal, 33 (2019-20), 280-2

  • ‘The Rolt Memorial Lecture 2018: Science and engineering at war in Orkney’, Industrial Archaeology Review, 41/2 (2019), 80-99, available online here

2018

  • ‘Obituary: John Dunbar, 1 March 1930-6 May 2018’, Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., 147 (2017), 9-16

  • ‘John Greenwell Dunbar, OBE, FSA, Hon FSA Scot, Hon FRIAS (1 March 1930-6 May 2018), The Castle Studies Group Journal, 32 (2018-19), 334

2017

  • (with David H Caldwell) ‘Achanduin Castle, Lismore, Argyll: an account of the excavations by Dennis Turner, 1970–5’, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 73, available online here

  • ‘A tale of two projects: working with Bruce Walker in the early 1980s’, SVBWG, Vernacular Building, 40 (2016-17), 39-44

  • ‘A life that was no ordinary journey, Cyril Parkes October 24, 1918-April 27, 2017’, The Orcadian, 25 May, 2017, 13

  • ‘Castles of the Western Seaboard: some physical perspectives’ in Paula Martin (ed.), Castles and Galleys: a reassessment of the historic galley-castles of the Norse-Gaelic seaways (Laxay, Isle of Lewis, 2017), 266-80

  • Review of Richard Oram (ed.), Tower Studies 1 & 2 (Donington, 2015), The Antiquaries Journal, 96 (2016), 458-9

2016

  • (with David H Caldwell and the late Dennis J Turner) ‘Excavations at Achanduin Castle, Lismore, Argyll, 1970-5: findings and commentary’, Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., 145 (2015), 349-69

  • (with Robin Tait) ‘Framework and form: burgage plots, street lines and domestic architecture in early urban Scotland’, Urban History, 43, 1 (February 2016), 2-27

  • Brian Kerr et al., ‘Cathcart Castle, Glasgow – Excavations 1980-81’ Scottish Archaeological Journal, 38 supplementary issue (2016), 1-100, available online here

2015

  • ‘Scapa Flow, Orkney’ in Catrina Appleby, Wayne Cocroft and John Schofield (eds), The Home Front in Britain 1914-18: An Archaeological Handbook (CBA Practical Handbook No 22, Council for British Archaeology, York, 2015), 110-11

  • ‘Recording 20th-century wartime landscapes in Scotland: an introductory summary of progress’, available online at here

  • (with Robin Tait) ‘Framework and form: burgage plots, street lines and domestic architecture in early urban Scotland’, Urban History, available online at here

  • (with Doreen Hunter, Catherine Brooks, David Caldwell, Mike Middleton et al) ‘Digging Linlithgow’s past: early urban archaeology on the High Street, 1966-1977’, Archaeology Reports Online (ARO), 16 (2015) available online here

  • ‘Sector Operations Centre/Gun Operations Room (‘Black Building’), Kirkwall, Orkney 1944-2009’, Subterranea 38 (April 2015), 23-8

  • Review of Ian Tait, Shetland Vernacular Buildings 1600-1900 (Lerwick, 2012) in Vernacular Building, 38 (SVBWG, 2015), 128-32

  • ‘Recording Twentieth-century Wartime Landscapes in Scotland: a Summary of Progress’, FORT, 43 (2015), 104-10

2014

  • ‘Scottish “hall-houses”: the origins and development of a modern castellological concept’, The Castle Studies Group Journal, 28 (2014-15), 134-9

  • ‘Orkney’s legacy of the first world war’, Context, 137 (November 2014), 14-16

  • (with John Guy) ‘The FSG Holderness Pilot Study, 1992’, Casemate, 100 (May 2014), 18-22

  • ‘Castle Tioram and the MacDonalds of Clanranald: a western seaboard castle in context’ in Richard D Oram (ed.), The Lordship of the Isles (Leiden, 2014), 271-96

2013

  • ‘Dennis Turner on Coll: a personal reminiscence’, The Castle Studies Group Journal, 27 (2013-14), 338

2012

  • 'Success and Failure in Orkney', FORT, 40 (2012), 87-104

  • Davis, Philip,'The Round Tower at Barnard Castle and gendered space', The Castle Studies Group Journal, 26 (2012-13), 282-4 at 284

  • 'Monumental Connections: Rhodes, The English Tongue, and Scotland, 1309-1522', Europa Nostra Scientific Council Bulletin, 64 (2011), 177-90

  • Review of Fawcett, Richard, The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church (New Haven and London, 2011) in History Scotland, 13/1 (January/February, 2013), 25

  • Review of Fawcett, Richard, The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church (New Haven and London, 2011) in ROSC Review of Scottish Culture, 24 (2012), 143-4

2011

  • Orkney at War: Defending Scapa Flow, Volume 1, World War I (Kirkwall, 2011)

  • 'Foundations of a Castle Culture: Pre-1603' in Dakin, Audrey, Glendinning, Miles, and MacKechnie, Aonghus (eds), Scotland's Castle Culture (Edinburgh, 2011), 3-34

  • 'Scottish castellology and castellologists: a brief historical introduction', Castellologica Bohemica, 12 (2010), 79-88

  • 'The Sites and Monuments of World Wars I and II' in Ottaway, Patrick (ed.), Orkney, Proceedings of the Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute in 2009 (and supplement to the Archaeological Journal, vol. 166 (2009), 67-81

2010

  • 'Timber' in Jenkins, Moses (ed.), Building Scotland, Celebrating Scotland's Traditional Building Materials (Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, 2010), 1-15

  • 'Foreword' in Alexander, Laurie, Minute by Minute: The Royal Burgh of Linlithgow, Extracts from the Town Council Minute Books 1739-1848 (Linlithgow Bridge, 2010), v-vi

  • 'The Scottishness of Scottish Towers', Europa Nostra Scientific Council Bulletin, 63 (2010), 57-68

2009

  • (with Brann, Jane, and Coombey, Nic)'Glenstocken, Gutcher's Isle, Colvend', Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 3rd series, 83 (2009), 91-104

  • 'Life in the Batteries, “they also serve who only stand and wait”, part 1: the background', Living Orkney, 41 (April 2009), 41-3

  • 'Life in the Batteries, “they also serve who only stand and wait”, part 2: the journal of Gunner F C Astles', Living Orkney, 42 (May 2009), 24-7

  • 'Life in the Batteries, “they also serve who only stand and wait”, part 2: domestic routines', Living Orkney, 43 (June 2009), 22-5

  • Review of Cruft, Kitty et al., The Buildings of Scotland: Borders (New Haven and London, 2006) in The Burlington Magazine, CLI (March, 2009), 175-6

2008

  • 'Europa Nostra Scientific Council Meeting, Kilkenny, Ireland, 27 September - 2 October 2008', The Castle Studies Group Journal, 22 (2008-9), 135-40

  • 'Scotland and Europe 1400-1700: Some Architectural Links', ROSC Review of Scottish Culture, 20 (2008), 1-14

  • 'Kenneth McCrae's memories of an engineering apprenticeship in Glasgow in the 1930s', Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group, Vernacular Building, 31 (2007-8), 77-88

  • Review of Pallister, Marian, Lost Argyll, Argyll's Lost Heritage (Edinburgh, 2005) in History Scotland, 8/1 (January/February 2008), 57-8

  • Review of Alston, David, My Little Town of Cromarty: The History of a Northern Scottish Town (Edinburgh, 2006) in Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group, Vernacular Building , 31 (2007-8), 101-3

2007

  • 'Ruin, Romance and Revival: Scottish Castles in the 19th Century', Europa Nostra Scientific Bulletin, 61 (2007), 49-56

  • Extracts from'Castle Tioram: a statement of cultural significance' in The Castle Studies Group Journal, 20 (2006-7), 265-81 at 275-81

  • '55. Underground Oil Tanks, Lyness Base, Orkney' and'56. Churchill Barriers, East Mainland-South Ronaldsay, Orkney' in Paxton, Roland, and Shipway, James, Civil Engineering Heritage, Scotland Highlands and Islands (London, 2007), 241-6

  • 'Crinan Canal' in Swain, Hedley, and Ottaway, Patrick (eds), Glasgow, the Antonine Wall and Argyll, Proceedings of the Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute in 2007 (and supplement to the Archaeological Journal, 164 (2007), 55-6

  • 'The View from the Author's Window: Smoogro House and Scapa Flow in 1917 and 1939' in J Storer Clouston, The Spy in Black (Kirkwall, 2007), 12-14

  • Extracts from'CSG 2007 Annual Conference - Castles of Lothian (Elphinstone Tower, Borthwick Castle, Roslin Castle)' in The Castle Studies Group Journal, 21 (2007-8), 4-79 at 8-9, 30-2, 56-7, 62-4

  • Review of Schroder, Virginia, Bloody Orkney?(Kirkwall, 2006) in History Scotland, 7/4 (July/August 2007), 54-5

2006

  • 'Europa Nostra Scientific Council Meeting, Sibiu, Romania, 3-8 September 2005', The Castle Studies Group Journal, 19 (2006), 106-14

  • 'Fortified Churches and Protected Places in Medieval Scotland: Some Problems of Definition' in Europa Nostra Scientific Council Bulletin, 60 (2006), 79-86

  • 'Extended Sanctuaries or Girths: a call to other researchers', Church Archaeology, 10 (2006), 115-16

  • ‘Castle Tioram: a statement of cultural significance’ (Historic Scotland, 2006) available online here and here

  • 'Shelter from the Elements' in Storrier, Susan (ed.), Scotland's Domestic Life (Edinburgh, 2006), 7-22

  • Review of Liddiard, Robert, Castles in Context. Power, Symbolism and Landscape, 1066 to 1500 (Macclesfield, 2005), and Higham, N J, A Frontier Landscape: the North West in the Middle Ages (Macclesfield, 2004) in Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, Newsletter, 88 (May 2006), 14-15

  • Review of Ford, Christopher R, Dunkeld: Telford's Finest Highland Bridge (Perth, 2004) in Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland Magazine, 19 (Spring 2006), 33-4

  • Review of Glendinning, Miles, and MacKechnie, Aonghus, Scottish Architecture (London, 2004) in ROSC Review of Scottish Culture, 18 (2006), 182

2005

  • 'Unfinished Works', History Scotland , vol. 5/2 (March/April, 2005), 14-21

  • 'The Coastline of Scotland - Historical Introduction', 6000 Miles (The Lighthouse, Glasgow, 2005), 74-83

  • Review of Gerrard, Christopher, Medieval Archaeology: understanding traditions and contemporary approaches (London and New York, 2003) in Scottish Archaeological Journal, 25/1 (2005), 95-6

  • 'Swiss Cottage, Fochabers, Moray: a summary account', SVBWG Vernacular Building, 29 (2005), 33-9

  • Review of Driscoll, S T, Excavations at Glasgow Cathedral 1988-97 (Leeds, 2002) in Church Archaeology, 7-9 (2003-5), 159-60

  • Scapa Flow, A Visitors Map and Guide (Kirkwall, 2005)

  • '60 Years On – The Churchill Barriers Re-Visited', ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter, 106 (June 2005), 1-2

  • Ed. (with Oram, Richard D), Lordship and Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland (Edinburgh, 2005)

  • (with Oram, Richard D),'Foreword' in Oram and Stell (eds) Lordship and Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland (Edinburgh, 2005), xix-xxi

  • Review of Binding, Günther, Medieval Building Techniques (Stroud, 2004) in History Scotland, 5/6 (November/December 2005), 57-8

  • Notice of Mills, Colin, The Nigel Tranter Bibliography (Shiskine, 2004) in History Scotland, 5/6 (November/December 2005), 58

  • Notice of Top Secret, The Second World War in Dumfries and Galloway (Dumfries, 2003) in History Scotland, 5/6 (November/December 2005), 58

  • Review of Fawcett, Richard, and Oram, Richard, Melrose Abbey (Stroud, 2004) in The Antiquaries Journal, 85 (2005), 423-4

2004

  • 'Balliol, Alexander de (d. 1310?)' in Matthew, H C G, and Harrison, Brian (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004), volume 3, 599-600;'Balliol, Bernard de (d. 1154x62)', idem, 600-1;'Balliol, Bernard de (d. c.1190)', idem, of Great Britain, Newsletter, 88 (May 2006), 14-15

  • 'Timber in Scottish historic buildings', in Kleboe, Janet (ed.), Timber and the Built Environment Conference (Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, 2004), 19-26

  • Review of Skempton, A W, et al. (eds), A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, vol 1, 1500-1830 (London, 2002) in Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, Newsletter, No.83

  • Review of Gaimster, David, and Gilchrist, Roberta (eds), The Archaeology of Reformation, 1480-1580 (Leeds, 2003) in The Antiquaries Journal, 84 (2004), 456-7

  • Review of Bath, Michael, Renaissance Decorative Painting in Scotland (Edinburgh, 2003) in The Antiquaries Journal, 84 (2004), 459-60

2003

  • 'Geoffrey Hay, 1922-2002', Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group, Vernacular Bu , 26 (2002), 44

  • (with Stevenson, J B) 'Tourism and Culture – the Role of RCAHMS', Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of >Scotland Annual Review 2002-3 (Edinburgh, 2003), 72-7

  • Review of Skempton, A W, et al. (eds), A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, vol 1, 1500-1830 (London, 2002) in History Scotland, 3/6 (November/December 2003), 58

  • Ed. (with Shaw, John, and Storrier, Susan) Scotland's Buildings (East Linton, 2003)

  • 'Buildings in Context' in Stell, Shaw and Storrier (eds), Scotland's Buildings (East Linton, 2003), 3-8

  • (with Richardson, Harriet) 'Health and Welfare', in Stell, Shaw and Storrier (eds.), Scotland's Buildings (East Linton, 2003), 311-40

  • Review of Meirion-Jones, G, et al. (eds.), The Seigneurial Residences in Western Europe AD.c.800-1600 (Oxford, 2002) in The Antiquaries Journal, 83 (2003), 504

  • Review of Cosh, M, Edinburgh, The Golden Age (Edinburgh, 2003) in The Antiquaries Journal , 83 (2003), 520

  • Ed. 'Hamilton Palace: a virtual reconstruction' (Virtual Hamilton Palace Trust, 2003, available online here)

2002

  • Ed. The Forth and Clyde Canal (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland Broadsheet 9, Edinburgh, 2002)

  • Ed. The Mallaig Railway, The West Highland Extension1897-1901 (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland Broadsheet 10, Edinburgh, 2002)

  • 'Concrete Celebrations: the Mallaig Railway', Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland Magazine, No 15 (Winter 2002), 37

  • 'Housing in the Two Towns', in Dennison, E P, Ditchburn, D, and Lynch, M (eds), Aberdeen Before 1800, A New History (East Linton, 2002), 97-108

  • Ed. The Union Canal (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland Broadsheet 8, Edinburgh, 2002)

  • Review of Hewison, W S, Not Born to be Drowned: An Orkney Soldier in the Napoleonic Wars (Kirkwall, 2001) in History Scotland, 2/3 (May/June 2002), 56.

  • Review of Scotland's Churches Scheme, Churches to Visit in Scotland 2002 (7th edition, Edinburgh, 2001) in Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland Magazine, 14 (Summer 2002), 34

  • Review of Cunningham, I C (ed.), The Nation Survey'd (East Linton, 2001) in History Scotland, 2/1 (January/February 2002), 50

2001

  • 'Balliol family','buildings: 4. defensive and military','housing: 2. urban to c.1770' in Lynch, M (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (Oxford, 2001), 36-7, 57-8, 323-4

  • Review of Walker, F A, The Buildings of Scotland: Argyll and Bute (Harmondsworth, 2000) in The Antiquaries Journal, 81 (2001), 415-16

  • Review of Brunskill, R W, The Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular Architecture (London, 2000) in Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, Newsletter, 73 (Summer 2001), 11

2000

  • 'Recording Scotland's urban buildings' in Dennison, E P (ed.), Conservation and Change in Historic Towns, Research Directions for the Future , Council for British Archaeology Research Report 122 (York, 1999), 60-8

  • (with Schofield, John) 'The built environment 1300-1540' in Palliser, D M (ed.), The Cambridge Urban History of Britain , 1 600-1540 (Cambridge, 2000), 371-93

  • 'War-damaged castles: the evidence from medieval Scotland', Château Gaillard, 19 (Caen, 2000), 275-85

  • 'Foreword' in Maxwell-Irving, A M T, The Border Towers: their History and Architecture - The West March (Dumfries, 2000), vii

1999

  • 'Post-Reformation Period' in Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, World of Worship (Edinburgh, 1999), 22-30

  • Ed. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, World of Worship (Edinburgh, 1999)

  • (with Easton, D R) 'RCAHMS and the Defence of Britain Project', Monuments on Record, Annual Review 1998-9 (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1999), 44-6

  • Ed. Scottish Farm Buildings Survey, 3 Sutherland (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland/ National Museums Scotland, 1999)

  • 'In Search of the Balliols: 2. France', Balliol College Annual Record 1999 (Oxford, 1999), 11-15

1998

  • Ed. St Kilda, Settlement and Structures on Hirta (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland Broadsheet No.4, 1998)

  • 'In Search of the Balliols: 1. England and Scotland', Balliol College Annual Record 1998 (Oxford, 1998), 11-14

  • Ed. Scottish Farm Buildings Survey, 1 East Central Scotland (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland/ National Museums Scotland, 1998)

  • Ed. Scottish Farm Buildings Survey, 2 Orkney (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland/ National Museums Scotland, 1998)

1997

  • 'Jane M S Durham 1924-1997', Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group, Vernacular Building , 19 (1997), 7-8

  • Ed. Argyll Castles in the care of Historic Scotland (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland/Historic Scotland, 1997)

  • Review of Beaton, E, Scotland's Traditional Houses: From Cottage to Tower-House (Edinburgh, 1997), in Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group, Vernacular Building, 19 (1997), 47-8

1996

  • Exploring Scotland's Heritage, Dumfries and Galloway (Edinburgh, 1996)

  • Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Tolbooths and Town-houses, Civic architecture in Scotland to 1833 (Edinburgh, 1996)

  • Ed. Recording Scotland's Historic Buildings (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1996)

  • 'Mottes', in McNeill, P G B, and MacQueen, H L (eds), Atlas of Scottish History to 1707 (Edinburgh, 1996), 430, available online here

  • Ed. ‘Social and cultural’ section, ibid., 412-39, available online here

  • Review of Salter, M, The Old Parish Churches of Scotland (Malvern, 1994) in Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, 40 (1996), 143

1995

  • (with Steele, V M) 'Leaves from Ian Smith's Notebooks', Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group, Vernacular Building , 19 (1995), 7-17

  • 'The Study of Buildings' in Buchanan, M (ed.), St Kilda, The Continuing Story of the Islands (Edinburgh, 1995), 24-38

1994

  • 'Summing Up' in Giles, C, and Wade Martins, S (eds), Recording Historic Farm Buildings, (Reading, 1994), 40-2

  • Dunstaffnage and the Castles of Argyll (Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, 1994)

1993

  • 'Towards an Atlas of Scottish Vernacular Building' in Cheape, H (ed.), Tools and Traditions, Studies in European Ethnology presented to Alexander Fenton (Edinburgh, 1993), 159-66

  • 'Pre-Clearance settlement: evidence of standing buildings' in Hingley, R (ed.), Medieval or Later Rural Settlement in Scotland, Management and Preservation (Edinburgh, 1993), 13-14

  • (with Baillie, M G L) 'The Great Hall and Roof of Darnaway Castle, Moray', in Sellar, W D H (ed.), Moray: Province and People (Edinburgh, 1993), 163-86

1992

  • Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Inventory of Argyll, 7 (Edinburgh, 1992)

  • Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Dundee on Record (Edinburgh, 1992)

  • Ed. (with Riches, A C) Materials and Traditions in Scottish Building, Essays in Memory of Sonia Hackett (Edinburgh, 1992)

  • 'A Note on Medieval Timber Flooring and Roofing' in Riches and Stell (eds), Materials and Traditions in Scottish Building, Essays in Memory of Sonia Hackett (Edinburgh, 1992), 75-80

1991

  • Ed. (with Oram, R D) Galloway: Land and Lordship (Edinburgh, 1991)

  • 'Castles and Towers in Fife and Angus', in Proceedings of the Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute in St Andrews 1991, Archaeological Journal, 148 (1991), 13-15

  • 'Medieval Buildings and Secular Lordship' in Oram and Stell (eds), Galloway: Land and Lordship (Edinburgh, 1991), 145-59

  • 'Destruction and Damage: a reassessment of the historical and architectural evidence' in Macdougall, N A T (ed.), Scotland and War AD 79-1918 (Edinburgh, 1991), 24-35

  • 'Minto House', Transactions of the Hawick Archaeological Society 1990 (1991), 17-23

  • Ed. (with Holdsworth, P E) Historic Glasgow, the archaeological implications of development (Edinburgh, 1991)

1990

  • 'Kings, Nobles and Buildings of the Later Middle Ages: Scotland' in Simpson, G G (ed.), Scotland and Scandinavia 800-1800 (Edinburgh, 1990), 60-72

  • 'Heart of Stone', Traditional Homes (February 1990), 35-9

  • 'Scottish Division', Traditional Homes (January 1990), 16-20

  • 'Crofts to Castles', Traditional Homes (March 1990), 14-18

  • Review of Proudfoot, E V W (ed.), Our Vanishing Heritage, Forestry and Archaeology (Council for Scottish Archaeology Occasional Papers No. 2, 1989) in Northern Studies, 27 (1990), 77-9

1989

  • Stones, J A (ed.), Three Scottish Carmelite Friaries (Edinburgh, 1989), sections 9.3.2, 9.5.2 and 9.6.2

1988

  • 'By Land and Sea in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland', ROSC Review of Scottish Culture, 4 (1988), 25-43

  • 'Symbols of Our Violent Past', The Sunday Mail Story of Scotland, 8 (1988), 214-17

  • Ed. (with Holdsworth, P E) Historic Dundee, the archaeological implications of development (Edinburgh, 1988)

  • (with Harman, M) Buildings of St Kilda (Edinburgh, 1988)

  • 'Urban Buildings' in Lynch, Spearman and Stell, The Scottish Medieval Town (Edinburgh, 1988), 60-80

  • Ed. (with Lynch, M, and Spearman, R M) The Scottish Medieval Town (Edinburgh, 1988)

1986

  • 'Castles in Context', Scottish Local History, 8 (January 1986), 2-3

  • Exploring Scotland's Heritage, Dumfries and Galloway (Edinburgh, 1986)

  • (with Hay, G D) Monuments of Industry (Edinburgh, 1986)

  • 'Architecture and Society in Easter Ross before 1707' in Baldwin, J R (ed.), Firthlands of Ross and Sutherland (Edinburgh, 1986), 98-132

  • 'Destruction, Damage and Decay: the collapse of Scottish medieval buildings', ROSC Review of Scottish Culture, 2 (1986), 59-69

  • 'Medieval Secular Architecture','Doune Castle','Dundonald Castle' and 'Bothwell Castle' in Proceedings of the Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute in Glasgow, 1986, Archaeological Journal, 143 (1986), 6-

1985

  • 'The Balliol Family and the Great Cause of 1291-2' in Stringer, K J (ed.), Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh, 1985), 150-65

  • 'Provisional List of Mottes in Scotland' in Stringer, K J (ed.), Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh, 1985), 13-21

  • 'The Scottish Medieval Castle: Form, Function and Evolution' in Stringer, K J (ed.), Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh, 1985), 195-209

  • Review of Brunskill, R W, Traditional Buildings of Britain (1985) and Naismith, R J, Buildings of the Scottish Countryside (1985) in The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland Newsletter, 5 (Autumn 1985), 17-1

  • Review of Breeze, D J (ed.), Studies in Scottish Antiquity presented to Stewart Cruden (Edinburgh, 1984) in The Innes Review, 36, No. 2 (1985), 104-5

1984

  • (with Hay, G D) 'Old Bridge, Bridge of Earn: a posthumous account' in Fenton and Stell, Loads and Roads in Scotland and Beyond (Edinburgh, 1984), 92-104

  • 'Southerness Lighthouse', Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 3rd series, 59 (1984), 64-9

  • (with Beaton, E) 'Local Building Traditions' in Omand, D (ed.), The Ross and Cromarty Book (Golspie, 1984), 207-18

  • Ed. (with Fenton, A) Loads and Roads in Scotland and Beyond (Edinburgh, 1984)

  • 'Stone Buildings with Timber Foundations: some unanswered questions', Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 114 (1984), 584-5

  • (with Hay, G D) Bonawe Iron Furnace (Edinburgh, 1984 and later editions)

  • Ed. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Inventory of Argyll, 5 (Edinburgh, 1984)

  • Review of Meirion-Jones, G I, The Vernacular Architecture of Brittany (Edinburgh, 1982) in The Antiquaries Journal, 64, part 1 (1984), 186-7

1983

  • Tarbat Old Church, Portmahomack (Golspie, 1983)

  • (with Horsey, M G) Gordon, G, and Dicks, B (eds), Scottish Urban History (Aberdeen, 1983) in Planning History Bulletin , 5/2 (1983), 7-8

  • (with Maxwell, I) Programme and Building Notes, SVBWG Dumfries Conference (Edinburgh 1983)

  • 'Dumfriesshire and Galloway Observed: the Diaries of A O Curle 1911-13', Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 3rd series, 58 (1983), 84-91

  • Ruthven Barracks, Badenoch (Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, 1983)

1982

  • 'The Scottish Medieval Castle: Form, Function and Evolution', Prospect, 14 (The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, Edinburgh, August, 1982), 14-15

  • 'Castles and Towers in South-western Scotland: some recent surveys', Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 3rd series, 57 (1982), 65-77

  • 'Some Small Farms and Cottages in Latheron Parish, Caithness' in Baldwin, J R (ed.), Caithness: A Cultural Crossroads (Edinburgh, 1982), 86-114

  • 'Stair-outshots in West Fife', Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group, Vernacular Building, 7 (1981-2), 28-32

  • 'Over Croy Farmhouse, Croy, Dunbartonshire', Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group, Vernacular Building, 7 (1981-2), 1-9

1981

  • ‘Pittenweem Church’ in C Q Thrower (ed.), Pittenweem, History and Visitors’ Guide to the Priory & Kirk (Pittenweem, 1981), xviii-xix

  • 'Architecture and Sculpture, Medieval' in Daiches, D (ed.), A Companion to Scottish Culture (London, 1981), 11-14

  • 'Late Medieval Defences in Scotland' in Caldwell, D H (ed.), Scottish Weapons and Fortifications (Edinburgh, 1981), 21-54

  • (with Walker, B) Programme and Building Notes, Vernacular Architecture Group Conference, Dundee (Dundee, 1981)

  • 'Crucks in Scotland: a provisional list' in Alcock, N W (ed.), Cruck Construction (Council for British Archaeology Research Report No. 42, London, 1981), 82-6

  • 'The Earliest Tolbooths: a preliminary account', Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland , 111 (1980-1), 445-53

1980

  • Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Inventory of Argyll, 3 (Edinburgh, 1980)

  • 'Medieval Architecture and Rural Society in West Lothian' in Morrison, A (ed.), Rural Settlement Studies, Some Recent Work (Glasgow, 1980), 46-56

  • 'Scottish Burgh Houses 1560-1707' in Simpson, A T, and Stevenson, S (eds), Town Houses and Structures in Medieval Scotland (Glasgow, 1980), 1-31

1977

  • 'Architecture: the Changing Needs of Society' in Brown, J M (ed.), Scottish Society in the Fifteenth Century (London, 1977), 153-83

  • 'At Home with the Redcoats', The Weekend Scotsman (21 May, 1977), 5

  • 'Civic status in stone', The Weekend Scotsman , 18 June, 1977, 5

  • 'Rural heritage ruined by agrarian reform', The Weekend Scotsman, 23 July, 1977, 5

  • 'Importance of the parish kirk', The Weekend Scotsman (20 August, 1977), 5

  • 'Anatomy of the tenement', The Weekend Scotsman , 24 September, 1977, 5

  • Ed. Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group, Newsletters 1-3 (Dundee, 1975-7, reprinted 1981)

1976

  • Ed. (with Fenton, A, and Walker, B), Building Construction in Scotland: some historical and regional aspects (SVBWG, Edinburgh and Dundee, 1976)

  • (with Omand, D) The Caithness Croft (Laidhay Preservation Trust, Dunbeath, 1976)

1975

  • Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, National Monuments Record Report 1972-4 (Edinburgh, 1975)

  • 'Mottes' in McNeill, P, and Nicholson, R (eds), An Historical Atlas of Scotland c.400-c.1600 (St Andrews, 1975), 28-9

1973

  • 'Highland Garrisons 1717-23: Bernera Barracks', Post-Medieval Archaeology, 7 (1973), 20-30

  • Alcock, N W (ed.), A catalogue of cruck buildings (London, 1973)

1972

  • 'Provisional List of Mottes in Scotland', Château Gaillard, 5 (Caen, 1972), 179-84

  • 'Two Cruck-framed buildings in Dumfriesshire', Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 3rd series, 49 (1972), 39-48

  • Contribution to Simpson, G G (ed.), Scotland's Medieval Burghs: an archaeological heritage in danger (Edinburgh, 1972)

  • Review of Donnachie, I A, The Industrial Archaeology of Galloway (Newton Abbot, 1971) in The Scottish Historical Review, 51 (1972), 221-2

  • Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, National Monuments Record Report 1966-71 (Edinburgh, 1972)