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Minutes of the meeting of

THE SCOTTISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS ALLOCATION PANEL

10:45am, Chambers Street, , EH1 1JF

Present: Dr Evelyn Silber (Chair), Neil Curtis, Paul MacDonald, Jacob O’Sullivan

In attendance: Stuart Campbell (TTU), Dr Natasha Ferguson (TTU), Dr Natasha Ferguson took the minutes

1. Apologies

Apologies from Dr Murray Cook, Dr Katie Stevenson, Dr Mary McLeod Rivett, Richard Welander

2. Chair Remarks

Due to limited time, as a result of the Hoard allocation meeting running over, the Chair decided to prioritise recommendations for TT case allocation and ex gratia awards. All other business on the agenda will be dealt with by the TTU via email.

3. Cases

In those instances where a case involved an institution to which a member of SAFAP belonged or had otherwise raised a possible conflict of interest, that individual was absent from the room for the discussion of allocation or determining the ex gratia award. NC for cases related to University of Museums and PM for case TT 186/16. KS was not present at the meeting.

TT 213/16 - Panel to write to finder thanking them for waiving ex gratia award..

TT 202/16 – Panel to write to finder thanking them for waiving ex gratia award.

TT 255/16 – Panel to write to finder thanking them for waiving ex gratia award.

New Cases

Summary:

Chance Finds: 64 Excavation assemblages: 19

Cases with competing Applications: 0

Cases with no applications (subsequently disclaimed) – 2

Cases where museum accepts application in the absence of a local museum applying- 8

Case list in order of Local Authority:

Chance Finds

TT No Description Ex Gratia Museum Local Authority TT.188/16 Late Bronze Age £200 University of Socketed Axehead, Aberdeen Museums Lonmay TT.251/16 Lithic Assemblage, £150 University of Aberdeenshire Durris Aberdeen Museums TT.181/16 Three Medieval Objects, £85 The Meffan Angus Oathlaw Museum TT.183/16 Medieval Harness £75 The Meffan Angus Decoration Tannadice Museum

TT.194/16 Romano-British Wirral- £65 Angus Type Bar Brooch, Montrose TT.197/16 Romano-British £25 Montrose Museum Angus Trumpet Brooch, Montrose

TT.206/16 Medieval And Later £85 Montrose Museum Angus Assemblage, Usan TT.207/16 Early Medieval Silver £2500 Montrose Museum Angus Gilt Ring Bezel, Montrose

TT.218/16 Stone Spindle Whorl, £20 Museum Dumfries & Middlebie Galloway TT.249/16 Earl Modern Lead £50 Auld Museum East District Seal, Kirkintilloch TT.250/16 Romanesque £195 East Zoomorphic Pin, Museum Service Tyninghame TT.185/16 Bronze Age Axehead £15 Kelvingrove East Fragment, Eaglesham Museum & Art Gallery TT.176/16 Medieval/Early Modern £250 Galleries Silver Dress Accessory, Kirkcaldy TT.189/16 Bronze Age Flat £50 Fife Axehead Fragment, TT.195/16 Romano-British £25 Fife Trumpet Brooch, Museum Dairsie TT.200/16 Middle Bronze Age £15 Fife Chisel/Axehead Museum Fragment, Dunfermline TT.211/16 Late Medieval/Early £650 St Andrews Fife Modern Gold Finger Museum Ring,

TT.229/16 Fragment of Roman £1100 National Museums Fife silver, Dairsie TT.252/16 Silver ingot, Kingsbarns £25 St Andrews Fife Museum TT.179/16 Silver Pin From £35 Museum Highland Brooch, Muir & Art Gallery of Ord TT.187/16 Early Bronze Age Flat £150 Inverness Museum Highland Axehead, Evanton & Art Gallery

TT.192/16 Bronze Age Barbed & £85 Museum of the Isles Highland Tanged Arrowhead, Fiskavaig TT.193/16 Steatite Spindle Whorl, £35 Inverness Museum Highland Auldearn & Art Gallery TT.199/16 Late Bronze Age Gold £350 Cromarty Highland Penannular Ring, Courthouse Cromarty Museum TT.201/16 17th Century Coin £590 Tain Museum Highland Hoard, Bonar Bridge TT.204/16 Post- Medieval Seal £45 Inverness Museum Highland Matrix, Castle Stuart & Art Gallery TT.214/16 Medieval Seal Matrix, £125 Inverness Museum Highland & Art Gallery TT.215/16 Napoleonic Shoulder £200 Inverness Museum Highland Belt Plate, Muir of Ord & Art Gallery TT.216/16 Medieval or Later £15 Inverness Museum Highland Brooch Pin, Evanton & Art Gallery TT.219/16 Medieval Annular £20 Inverness Museum Highland Brooch, Whitebridge & Art Gallery TT.220/16 Two Post-Medieval £30 Inverness Museum Highland Military Artefacts, & Art Gallery Whitebridge TT.221/16 Medieval Annular £35 Inverness Museum Highland Brooch, Castle Stuart & Art Gallery TT.222/16 Napoleonic Military £25 Inverness Museum Highland Button, & Art Gallery TT.223/16 Fragment Of Annular £15 Inverness Museum Highland Brooch, Culbokie & Art Gallery

TT.175/16 Medieval Annular £50 East Lothian Brooch, Nine Mile Burn Council Museums Service

TT.217/16 Assemblage Of £225 East Lothian Midlothian Medieval Spindle Council Museums Whorls, Temple Service TT.230/16 Medieval harness £275 Elgin Museum mount, Urquhart TT.231/16 Medieval seal matrix, £850 Elgin Museum Moray Duffus TT.232/16 Three medieval & later £65 Elgin Museum Moray finds, Covesea TT.233/16 Medieval & later £500 Elgin Museum Moray assemblage, Duffus TT.234/16 Medieval & later £450 Elgin Museum Moray assemblage, Elgin TT.235/16 Medieval & later £200 Elgin Museum Moray assemblage, Spynie TT.210/16 17th century Coin £165 Hunterian North Forgery, Chapelhall Museum* TT.174/16 Medieval Seal Matrix, £65 National Museums Perth & Scone Scotland* TT.178/16 Medieval Heraldic £150 National Museums Perth & Kinross Mount, Burrelton Scotland* TT.180/16 Prehistoric Stone Pestle, £25 National Museums Perth & Kinross Dunning Scotland* TT.182/16 Medieval Harness £225 Perth Museum & Perth & Kinross Pendant, Rait Art Gallery TT.184/16 2 Early Bronze Age Flat £200 Perth Museum & Perth & Kinross Axeheads, Errol Art Gallery TT.208/16 Medieval Papal Bulla, £125 Perth Museum & Perth & Kinross Abernethy Art Gallery TT.209/16 Post-Medieval Lead £50 Perth Museum & Perth & Kinross Mould And Casting, Art Gallery Crieff TT.213/16 Romano-British Waived Perth Museum & Perth & Kinross Trumpet Brooch, Loch Art Gallery Leven TT.196/16 Romano-British Bow £25 Perth Museum & Perth and Brooch, Crieff Art Gallery Kinross

TT.177/16 Medieval Silver Brooch, £500 Museum Scottish Drumelzier Borders TT.186/16 Bronze Age Spearhead, £200 Tweeddale Museum Scottish Leadburn Borders TT.190/16 2 Fragments Bronze £30 National Museums Scottish Age Metalwork, Hawick Scotland* Borders TT.191/16 Bronze Age Spearhead, £200 Coldstream Scottish Ayton Museum Borders TT.198/16 Early Bronze Age Flat £100 National Museums Scottish Axehead, Hawick Scotland* Borders TT.202/16 Prehistoric Stone Waived National Museums Scottish Cobble Tool, Newstead Scotland* Borders TT.203/16 Medieval Seal Matrix, £275 Coldstream Scottish Museum Borders TT.212/16 Medieval Seal Matrix, £35 Disclaimed Scottish Earlston Borders TT.253/16 Assemblage of Roman £700 National Museums Scottish objects, Melrose Scotland Borders TT.254/16 Fragment of Late £15 National Museums Scottish Bronze Age axehead, Scotland* Borders Melrose TT.255/16 Assemblage of Waived Trimontium Trust Scottish Roman/Iron Age Borders objects, Hawick TT.205/16 Two Early Historic £500 Museum Shetland Mounts, Sumburgh & Archives

*accepting in place of no local application

Excavation Assemblages

TT. No Description Museum Local Authority TT.242/16 Prehistoric Excavation Assemblage (Mas University of Aberdeenshire 2015-12), Kintore Aberdeen Museums TT.243/16 Prehistoric Excavation Assemblage (Mas University of Aberdeenshire 2016-20), Stonehaven Aberdeen Museums TT.244/16 Prehistoric Excavation Assemblage (Mas University of Aberdeenshire 2013-28), Mintlaw Aberdeen Museums TT.245/16 Bronze Age To Medieval Excavation (Mas University of Aberdeenshire 2015-35), Aberdeen Museums TT.246/16 Early Neolithic Excavation Assemblage University of Aberdeenshire (Mas 2013-29), Kintore Aberdeen Museums TT.247/16 Post Medieval Excavation Assemblage Elgin Museum Moray (Mas 2016-01), Urquhart TT.248/16 Prehistoric Excavation Assemblage (Mas University of Aberdeenshire 2014-37), Kintore Aberdeen Museums TT.225/16 Post-medieval to modern excavation Museum of City of Edinburgh assemblage (GORE14), 396-410 Gorgie Edinburgh Roa

TT.226/16 Medieval to Modern excavation Museum of City of Edinburgh assemblage (LBFE14), Lochrin Basin Edinburgh

TT.227/16 Old High School, Edinburgh (OHSE12) Museum of City of Edinburgh Edinburgh TT.228/16 Medieval to Modern excavation The Dumfries & assemblage (WHCE08), Whithorn Museum Galloway TT.236/16 Early Neolithic Excavation Assemblage, Biggar Biggar Museums Trust TT.237/16 18th-19th Century Excavation Biggar South Lanarkshire Assemblage, Daer Reservoir Museums Trust TT.238/16 Post Medieval Excavation Assemblage, Biggar South Lanarkshire Daer Reservoir Museums Trust TT.239/16 Post Medieval Excavation Assemblage, Biggar South Lanarkshire Daer Valley Museums Trust TT.240/16 Post Medieval Excavation Assemblage, Biggar South Lanarkshire Daer Resevoir Museums Trust TT.241/16 Post Medieval Excavation Assemblage, Biggar South Lanarkshire Cowgill Glen Museums Trust TT.224/16 Medieval to Modern excavation Disclaimed assemblage (GHSS08), Glenbervie House TT.256/16 Roman Excavation Assemblage, Birrens Dumfries Dumfries & Museum Galloway

4. AOCB

No business was raised.

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