Learn with our archives
Historic Environment Scotland's archives and collections are great research tools at any stage of study.
Explore Scotland's past on trove.scot
There's loads to learn from HES's archives and collections, and trove.scot is your gateway.
Maybe you want to find images from your town for a school project? Or delve into a particular photographic collection? Find records of archaeological projects or learn loads about brochs?
From a keyword or map search, you can find:
Place records for more than 350,000 locations in Scotland
Information about archaeological sites, historic buildings, and heritage assets
Images including photography, architectural drawings and paintings
Digital resources from national and partner collections
Thesauri terms to help understand how we define historic places and artefacts, and to help find more of the same kind!
Information about listed buildings and other designations, including the decisions to designate them
Downloadable datasets for more advanced research
Items from our Properties in Care objects collections, and explore these further with 3D models
Learn with trove.scot
Explore locations you love through our archives, discover designated places and learn more about historic objects in our collections.
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