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Barbara E Crawford Barbara Crawford
MA, PhD (St And.), FRSE, FSA, FSAScot, Member of the Norwegian Academy - Honorary Reader
  E-mail - bec@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462889
Fax - +44 (0)1334 463334
Personal Website
       
Research Interests
  The Viking World and Dark-Age Scotland with inter-disciplinary interests, using archaeological and place-name evidence to supplement historical sources. A major archaeological report of her excavations of a Norse royal farm in Shetland recently published. Current research project is the cult of St Clement in Scandinavia, Scotland and England.The first phase of the Carnegie-funded 'papar' project concerning the nature of the Celtic ecclesiastical establishments in the Northern and Western Isles is being concluded.
 
Main Publications The History and Excavation of a Royal Norwegian Farm at The Biggings, Papa Stour, Shetland
 
  • Scandinavian Scotland (1987, reprinted 1993)
  • (editor) St Magnus Cathedral and Orkney's Twelfth-Century Renaissance (1988)
  • (editor) Scotland in Dark-Age Europe (1994)
  • (editor) Scandinavian Settlement in Northern Britain (1995)
  • (editor) Northern Isles Connections (1995)
  • (editor) Scotland in Dark-Age Britain (1996)
  • (editor) Conversion and Christianity in the North Sea World (1998)
  • (editor) Church, Chronicle and Learning in Medieval and Early Renaissance Scotland (1999)
  • The History and Excavation of a Royal Norwegian Farm at The Biggings, Papa Stour, Shetland (1999) [Details]
  • (editor) Papa Stour and 1299 (2002)
  • (editor) The 'papar' in the North Atlantic. Environment and History (2002)
 
Other Details
  Dr Crawford is a Member of the Norwegian Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and chairs the National Monuments Record Committee section, as well as having chaired the Treasure Trove Advisory Panel for Scotland since 1993. She is taking up the Honorary Directorship of the Strathmartine Centre for Scottish History, founded by an independent charitable trust established by the late Dr Ronald Cant before his death in 1999, for supporting research and education in Scottish History.
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