Culduthel: an Iron Age craftworking centre in north-east Scotland

The rapid suburban expansion of Inverness in recent decades has led to a patchwork of prehistoric sites being discovered through developer-funded excavations. In 2005, however, Headland Archaeology hit the motherlode at Culduthel. They had discovered a multi-period prehistoric site whose highlight was an extraordinary industrial and craftworking hub, active between the 2nd centuries BC and AD, possibly part of a larger unenclosed settlement of longer duration. In this Society of Antiquaries of Scotland volume, Hatherley, Murray, and specialist contributors provide a very well-presented and stimulating account of the results, context, and significance of what, in their well-founded claim, is