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Historic Scotland
www.historic-scotland.gov.uk
Historic Scotland safeguards the nation's built heritage and promotes its understanding and enjoyment on behalf of Scottish ministers. Its website provides information on more than 300 properties in its care and Scotland's listed buildings and scheduled ancient monuments. It also contains resources for schools and details on technical conservation and research.

Lothene Experimental Archaeology
www.lothene.org
Lothene is an Edinburgh-based group involved in researching and recreating aspects of life in Scotland in the past. The group was one of those used by Time Team for the Roxburgh programme to recreate an 11th-century medieval market. As well as covering aspects of everyday life in Scotland during this period, their website contains a large amount of information on the early Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings, and 15th- and 18th-century Scotland. It is particularly strong on women warriors, and has an extensive section on Women as warriors in history, from 3500BC to the 20th century.

Carrick 800
www.maybole.org/community/organisations/
carrick800/carrick800.htm
In 1196, Carrick split from Galloway. A celebration of the 800th anniversary of Carrick becoming an independent part of Scotland brought together many individuals from all over the south of Ayrshire in a magnificent pageant held at Culzean Castle. The group set up to re-enact a famous battle is still in existence today as the Carrick 800 Battle Re-enactment Society. Members bring alive Scottish history in their spare time and tour schools with their re-enactments. This website reproduces material prepared for the 800th anniversary and includes photos and other information about Carrick 800, who were involved in Time Team's medieval fair at Roxburgh.

Anmod Dracan
www.anmoddracan.org.uk
Website of Anmod Dracan, the third re-enactment group who were involved in Time Team's medieval fair at Roxburgh. It contains sections on how the group organises its combat and living history displays.

Gazetteer of markets and fairs in England and Wales to 1516
www.history.ac.uk/cmh/gaz/gazweb2.html
The Gazetteer is a catalogue of markets and fairs in medieval England and Wales between about 900 and 1516. This is the first comprehensive national survey. The project worked systematically through a range of sources to provide as much information as possible about each market and fair, with background information on places where they were held.

Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
www.sair.org.uk/sair2/
The origins of the settlements at Kelso and Peebles, Scottish Borders: archaeological excavations in Kelso and Floors Castle and Cuddyside/Bridgegate, Peebles by the Border Burghs Archaeology Project and the Scottish Urban Archaeological Trust, 1983-1994 by P J Dixon et al (Published in January 2003 by The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, in association with The Council for British Archaeology and Historic Scotland), available free of charge

This is a report on archaeological work in two of Scotland's less well-known medieval burghs Kelso and Peebles. The excavations at Wester Kelso/Floors Castle established that the original medieval burgh of Kelso or Wester Kelso was much further west than previously believed, being situated well inside the present castle policies. That early settlement at Wester Kelso appears to have been abandoned in the 14th or 15th centuries, at the same time that the royal burgh of Roxburgh was deserted, probably as a result of the English occupation of Roxburgh Castle.

The entire report is available as a downloadable pdf file.

Auld Roxburgh
http://sites.ecosse.net/
therowans.roxburgh/book/
In 1984, Brian Wain, a keen local historian, wrote a short history of Roxburgh. This book is no longer available. However, he is currently working on an updated version. The latest version of this new work can be downloaded from the 'Download' page on this web site. It is hoped that the finished paperback should be available to purchase in the summer of 2004.

Scottish History Online
www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk
Extensive website dealing with the history of Scotland's modern, medieval, prehistoric, Pictish and Celtic past going back nearly 8000 years.

Scotland's Past
www.scotlandspast.org
Comprehensive and well-organised website dealing with all periods of Scotland's history from the Mesolithic era to the present day.

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