Alison Sheridan

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First Name:	Alison
Surname:	Sheridan
Wikidata Identifier:	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24572226
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Monographs:

Title	Author	Year of Publication
Ancient Lives; Object, people and place in early Scotland. Essays...	Editor	2016
Cist burials and an Iron Age settlement at Dryburn Bridge, Innerwick, East Lothian	Author contributing	2007
Economic archaeology: towards an integration of ecological and social approaches	Issue editor	1981
Excavations at Maybury Park, Edinburgh (1990-2)	Author contributing	2006
Fluid identities, shifting sands: Early Bronze Age burials at Cnip Headland, Isle of Lewis.	Author contributing	2018
Neolithic and Bronze Age Occupation at Meadowend Farm, Clackmannanshire: Pots, Pits and Roundhouses	Author	2018
The Excavation of Neolithic Pits and a Bronze Age Burial Site at Ness Gap, Fortrose	Author	2020
Vessels for the ancestors: essays on the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland in honour of Audrey Henshall	Issue editor	1992

Articles/Chapters:

Title	Role	Year of Publication
'...bead which have given rise to so much dogmatism, controversy and rash speculation'; faience in Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland	Author	2004
'Ava': a Beaker-associated woman from a cist at Achavanich, Highland, and the story of her (re-)discovery and subsequent study	Author	2017
3 Neolithic structure (Area A)	Author	2011
4 Bronze Age cemetery (Area D)	Author	2011
4 Early prehistoric activity: the finds	Author contributing	2007
4. The excavated material from Balnuaran of Clava	Author	2000
5 The pottery	Author contributing	2006
6. The Clava ring-cairn at Newton of Petty excavations of John Thawley 1975-77	Author	2000
A Beaker period copper dagger blade from the Sillees river near Ross Lough, Co. Fermanagh	Author	1993
A Bronze Age bead from Cantraybruich	Author	2000
A Bronze Age cremation cemetery at North Straiton, Fife	Author	2006
A beaker cist from Balblair, near Beauly, Inverness District	Author	1994
A longbow from Rotten Bottom, Dumfriesshire, Scotland	Author	1992
A matter of life and death: Late Neolithic, Beaker and Early Bronze Age settle...	Author	2007
A pit containing an undecorated Beaker and associated artefacts from Beechwood Park, Raigmore, Inverness	Author	2006
A prehistoric pit with possible burial at Hollins Cross, Hope Valley	Author contributing	2018
A reconsideration of the origins of Irish metallurgy	Author	1983
A response to Meiklejohn and Woodman, 'Radiocarbon dating of Mesolithic human remains in Ireland'	Author	2014
ANTIQUITY and the Old World	Author	2002
Amulets and `triplet' pots from a Bronze Age cemetery in Fife	Author	2003
An Early Bronze Age 'dagger grave' from Rameldry Farm, near Kingskettle, Fife	Author	2003
An Early Bronze Age short-cist burial at Abbey Mains Farm, Haddington, East Lothian.	Author	2002
An Early Neolithic Occupation Site at Holbeck Park Avenue, Barrow-in-Furness	Author	2018
Battle axeheads	Author	2008
Bead from Cist A	Author	2004
Croft Moraig and the chronology of stone circles	Author	2005
Dating Scotland's past: the National Museums of Scotland C14 dating progra...	Author	2005
Dating Scotland's past: the NMS C14 dating programmes	Author	2005
Donegore Hill and other Irish Neolithic enclosures: a view from outside	Author	2001
Early Neolithic Carinated Bowl pottery	Author	2008
Emeritus Professor Derek Douglas Alexander Simpson; (1938--2005)	Author	2005
Excavation and survey at the Giant's Grave, Slochd Measach, Nereabolls, a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Isle of Islay, Argyll & Bute: chronology, architecture, reuse and demise	Author	2023
Excavations at Dunure Road, Ayrshire: a Bronze Age cist cemetery and standing stone	Author contributing	2007
Excavations at Standingstone	Author contributing	2009
Excavations at Upper Largie Quarry, Argyll & Bute, Scotland; New Light on the Prehistoric Ritual Landscape of t...	Author	2010
Forest grazing and seaweed foddering: early Neolithic occupation at Maybole, South Ayrshire	Author contributing	2009
Fusiform bead from the 1944 investigations	Author	2004
Green treasures from the magic mountains	Author	2007
Gristhorpe Man; an Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifical...	Author	2010
Investigating jet and jet-like artefacts from prehistoric Scotland: the National Museums of Scotland project	Author	2002
Ireland's earliest `passage' tombs: a French connection?	Author	2003
Megalithic chronologies	Author	2003
Megaliths and megalomania: an account, and interpretation, of the development of passage tombs in Ireland	Author	1986
Neolithic Britain and Ireland; are we nearly there?	Author	2010
Neolithic connections along and across the Irish Sea	Author	2004
Neolithic pottery from Balnuaran of Clava south	Author	2000
Obituary: Professor John Morton Coles; Professor George Eogan, MRIA FSA HonFSAScot	Author	2021
Pebble, probably an amulet, from Cist H	Author	2004
Pictish Byre-houses at Pitcarmick and their landscape: investigations 1993–5	Author contributing	2012
Pottery	Author	2006
Pottery	Author	2000
Pottery Tomnaverie	Author	2005
Pottery of prehistoric and indeterminate date	Author	2006
Prehistoric pottery	Author	2011
Radiocarbon dates arranged through National Museums Scotland Archaeology Department during 2010/11	Author	2011
Radiocarbon dates arranged through National Museums Scotland Archaeology Depatment during 2009/10	Author	2010
Radiocarbon dates arranged through National Museums Scotland during 2006/7	Author	2008
Radiocarbon dating results from The Beaker People Project, 2007: Scottish samples	Author	2008
Radiocarbon dating results from The Beakers and Bodies Project	Author	2008
Radiocarbon dating results from the Beaker People Project: Scottish samples	Author	2007
Redeemed from the peat; An extraordinary bronze age grave on Whitehorse Hi...	Author	2014
Revisiting Quanterness: new AMS dates and stable isotope data from an Orcadian chamber tomb	Author	2010
Revisiting a small passage tomb at Broadsands, Devon	Author	2008
Scottish Wetland Archaeology Project (SWAP) seminar, February 16 2000	Author	2000
Scottish prehistoric 'jet' jewellery: some new work	Author	1993
Skilmafilly: a well-dated Bronze Age cremation cemetery	Author	2004
Stone axe studies in Ireland	Author	1992
Supplementary material: Excavation and survey at the Giant's Grave, Slochd Measach, Nereabolls, a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Isle of Islay, Argyll & Bute: chronology, architecture, reuse and demise	Author	2023
The Cairnderry battleaxe	Author	2004
The National Museums Scotland Radiocarbon Dating Programmes: results obtained during 2005/6	Author	2007
The National Museums of Scotland Dating Cremated Bones Project	Author	2002
The National Museums of Scotland Dating Cremated Bones Project: results obtained during 2002/3	Author	2004
The National Museums of Scotland dating programmes: results obtained during 2001/2	Author	2003
The National Museums of Scotland radiocarbon dating programmes: results obtained during 2004/5	Author	2006
The National Museums of Scotland radiocarbon dating programmes: results obtained during 2003/4	Compiler	2005
The Rotten Bottom longbow	Author	1993
The age of Stonehenge	Author	2007
The archaeological study of exchange: theoretical problems and a new approach	Author	1981
The beads: star-shaped faience bead SF2 from site 6, context ...	Author	2008
The beads: amber bead from site 2, pit [30]	Author	2008
The bronze dagger from the central grave (F33)	Author	2011
The coarse stone: ground stone axe	Author	2000
The end of the world, or just ‘goodbye to all that’? Contextualising the red deer heap from Links of Noltland, Westray, within late 3rd-millennium cal bc Orkney	Author	2016
The excavation of a Bronze Age cemetery at Seafield West, near Inverness, Highland	Author	2003
The land before symbol stones	Author	2015
The large elliptical Neolithic bead fragment	Author	2007
The oldest bow ... and other objects	Author	1996
The pottery	Author	2004
The pottery	Author	2007
The radiocarbon dating programmes of The National Museums of Scotland	Author	2002
The re-dating of some Scottish specimens by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU)	Author	2007
The re-dating of some Scottish specimens by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU): results received during 2007	Author	2008
The stone axehead	Author	2007
The types and uses of cinerary urns	Author	2008
Three cists and a possible Roman road at Barbush Quarry, Dunblane, Perthshire.	Author	2001
with contributions by McSweeney, Kathleen, and Rogers, Penelope Walton: An early historic steatite urn from Orkney: new information on an old find	Author	2005