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Part 7 Extended Bibliography PART Extended bibliography 7 Compiled by Nick Card Adderley, W P, Simpson, I A, Lockheart, Orkney, and now in the Museum’, Proc M J, Evershed, R P and Davidson, D A Soc Antiq Scot 15 (1880-1), 286-98. 2000 ‘Modelling traditional manuring - 1881 Scotland in Early Christian Times, practices: soil organic matter Edinburgh. sustainability of an early Shetland - 1883 Scotland in Pagan Times, community’, Human Ecology 28 (2000), Edinburgh. 415-31 - 1884 Guide to the Orkney Islands, Adderley, W P, Simpson, I A and Kirkwall. MacLeod, G 2001 ‘Testing high - 1886 Scotland in Pagan Times: The resolution X-ray computed tomography Bronze and Stone Ages, Edinburgh. for the micromorphological analyses of - 1890 ‘Notice of Brochs or large round archaeological soils and sediments’, towers’, Arch Scot 5 (1890), 71-94. 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