This volume honours the work of Dr Anna Ritchie, esteemed archaeologist, author, and lifelong advocate of Scotland’s premodern history and heritage.

Anna’s extensive and enduring contributions to the field of archaeology, particularly on the topic of prehistoric and early medieval Scotland, were celebrated at the Common Ground conference, jointly hosted by the Scottish Society for Northern Studies and the Pictish Arts Society in 2022. Several of the essays presented in this volume stem from this event.

Edited by Kelly Kilpatrick

• Preface
  Kelly Kilpatrick and Sheila Hainey
• Introduction: Anna Ritchie and Scottish Archaeology
  Ian Ralston
• Bibliography of Anna Ritchie
  Ian Ralston

  I. The Kirtomy Hat: A Unique Bronze Age Horse-Hair Hat from Sutherland
    Alison Sheridan, Susanna Harris, and Lilja Husmo

  II. Hidden in Plain Sight: Pictish Settlement in Shetland
    Val E. Turner

  III. Preliminary Results of the Comparative Kingship Project at Aberlemno:
    An Elite Centre of the Fifth to Twelfth Centuries AD
    Gordon Noble and James O’Driscoll

  IV. The Oxford Librarian and the Inscribed Stones from Burghead, Greenloaning, and Kilmadock
    Kelly Kilpatrick

  V. The Abercorn Assemblage: New Insights into the Sculptural Repertoire of a Central British Monastery
    Christina Cowart-Smith

  VI. Commensality in Context: An Onomastic Review of the Socially-Embedded Economies of Scotia Scandinavica
    Alan Macniven

• Notes on Contributors