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How To: Research

Guides to help you research Scotland's buildings and urban spaces using archives, online databases and newspapers.

TAN 19 - Scottish Aggregates for Building Conservation

A guide to aggregates for use in mortars to match those used in historic buildings in Scotland.

New Design in Historic Settings

A guide to ensuring the quality of new-design buildings matches that of their surroundings.

Identifying and Recording Scotland's Prehistoric Rock Art

This guide is aimed at those interested in looking for and recording Prehistoric Rock Art in Scotland

The Small Isles

This comprehensive guide – illustrated with a wealth of photographs, maps and drawings – takes readers on a tour of both place and time.

HES Archives: Digital Repository Management Policies

This suite of documents sets out the purpose, guiding principles and operational policies for the Digital Repository.

Cropmark Archaeology

"Cropmark Archaeology" provides information on investigating Scotland’s cropmarks. This informative guide leaflet covers the buried evidence of early farming in Scotland.

The purpose of this framework is to define our understanding of, and role in, responsible tourism. It outlines the principles guiding our organisation’s decision-making and around which we can build actions going forward.

Archaeology on Farm and Croft

This guide is a starting point for those wishing to discover how to deal with archaeology and the historic environment in general in the context of modern environmentally-friendly farming.

Stonemasonry Survey Report 2023

This survey seeks to understand the nature of the stonemasonry sector in Scotland

Annual Operating Plan 2024-25

Operating plan for the financial year 2024-25 which delineates what we seek to achieve in the financial year through our outcomes based KPIs.

Building with Scottish Stone

This guide aims to encourage use of stone sourced from Scotland’s working quarries and to provide a better understanding of those mineralogical properties that give each stone its distinctive quality.