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St Andrews Cathedral Priory - 1318

In 2010, we collaborated on this project with the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. Taking advice and guidance from the…

St Andrews Cathedral Priory

St Andrews Cathedral was once the largest and most important church in Scotland. In the late fifteenth century the chronicler Walter Bower described…

St Andrews Castle - 1520

St Andrews Castle, Scotland, c1520

St Andrews Castle

St Andrews Castle, Scotland, c1520

St Andrews, St Salvator's College - 1559

St Salvator's Quad is one of the best known landmarks in St Andrews. For more than five centuries the tall tower of St Salvator's has dominated the…

St Salvator's College

St Salvator's Quad is one of the best known landmarks in St Andrews. For more than five centuries the tall tower of St Salvator's has dominated the…

St Andrews Holy Trinity c1559

Holy Trinity Church was for many years the main place of worship for St Andrews' ordinary residents. It was built in the early fifteenth century, near…

Holy Trinity Church

Holy Trinity Church in St Andrews has played a major role in Scotland’s religious life since the Middle Ages. It was central to the events of the…

St Andrews - Market Street c1565

For over 800 years, Market Street has been the commercial heart of the burgh of St Andrews. This reconstruction shows Market Street during the middle…

Market Street

For over 800 years Market Street has been the commercial heart of the burgh of St Andrews. This reconstruction shows Market Street during the middle…

St Andrews Harbour - 1921

A short clip depicting St Andrews Harbour in 1921. A collaborative project with the St Andrews Preservation Trust. Today, the Scottish burgh of St…

Edinburgh - A City in Crisis 1544

So what is important about 1544? In the spring of 1544, the English king Henry VIII ordered a vast army of about fifteen thousand men north to…

The French Fort at Eyemouth - 1557

The fort at Eyemouth changed the course of history, and not just that of Scotland, it played a significant role in the relationships between Scotland,…

Abernethy - 1072

In 1072 the small Scottish village of Abernethy was the site of a meeting between the King of Scots, Malcolm Canmore, and William of Normandy (who had…

Perth - 1440

This reconstruction was created as part of the Tayside Landscape Partnership in collaboration with Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust. It was part of…

Moredun Top Hillfort - 50

Hillforts feature regularly on the landscape of the Ochil and Sidlaw hills and a number have been excavated and studied in the past. Many of those…

Forteviot Pictish Cemetery - 850

Forteviot was once a Royal Pictish Kingdom. It is where King Kenneth McAlpin united the gaels and picts. This is a reconsturction of a cemetery…

Cottown Clay House - 1850

Earth houses have a long history in the British Isles. Today many people still admire the picturesque mudwall or ‘cob’ cottages of Devon and Somerset.…

Cottown Clay House

Buildings that were “made out of the ground upon which they stood” were once the most common vernacular structures in parts of Scotland.

Illicit Whisky Still - 1820

The Illicit Still Experience engages audiences in the area’s unique history in illegal whisky creation and smuggling. The area is now known for famous…

Lair Longhouses, Glenshee - 800

This video was created in conjunction with Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust and the University of St Andrews, School of Computer Science, Open Virtual…

Bennachie Colony - 1850

During the early nineteenth century crofters driven out from their original homes settled on common land at Bennachie in Aberdeenshire. They…

Caen Highland Township - 1813

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the inhabitants of many small farming communities in the Scottish Highlands were forced to leave their…

Caen Highland Township

The settlement of Caen is located a few miles north of the fishing village of Helmsdale along the Strath of Kildonan road. It is located in a narrow…

Cean Roundhouse 500BC

During the Iron Age the Strath of Kildonan in Sutherland was home to many small farming communities. The relatively mild climate of this period…

Kildonan

During the Iron Age the Strath of Kildonan in Sutherland was home to many small farming communities. The relatively mild climate of this period…

Helmsdale - 1890

During the nineteenth century the village of Helmsdale in Sutherland was one of the largest centres for herring fishing in Scotland. The village and…

Helmsdale

Helmsdale, a fishing village on the North East coast of Scotland.

Finlaggan - Lords of the Isles 15thc

"In the late medieval period, Loch Finlaggan in Islay of the Inner Hebrides was an important power base. The two islands of Eilean Mor (or Large Isle)…

Finlaggan

ase. The two islands of Eilean Mor (or Large Isle) and Eilean na Comhairle (or Council Isle) on Loch Finlaggan were the site of a major residence of…

Skye - Jurassic

Jurassic Skye was created as part of an exclusive video, ' Skye Story' created for the AROS Centre on Skye. Cupido started 1st of September 2018. As…

Fethaland Fishing Station - 1890

Using archaeological survey data and PointCloud scan data, we have created an accurate 3D interactive reconstruction of Fethaland fishing station as…

Fethaland Fishing Station

Using archaeological survey data and PointCloud scan data, we have created an accurate 3D interactive reconstruction of Fethaland fishing station as…

St Kilda - 1880

We created the very successful 'Virtual St Kilda' exhibit for Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum, North Uist in 2014 and again as an updated exhibit with…

Skriðuklaustur Monastery - 1550

The Skriðuklaustur cloister was the last one to be founded during Iceland’s Catholic period, i.e. shortly before the country’s 16th-century…

Skriðuklaustur Monastery

Skriðuklaustur was the last Catholic monastery to be founded in Iceland before the Reformation. In June 1500 the farm of Skriða (in the valley of…

Laconia Acropolis Virtual Archaeology (LAVA) Project

The Laconia Acropolis Virtual Archaeology project (LAVA) is a cooperative archaeological learning environment developed to address the need for…

Skye - Dunscaith Castle - 1300

Our Dunscaith reconstruction is part of an exclusive video ' Skye Story' created for the AROS Centre on Skye. Cupido started 1st of September 2018. As…

Loch na h-Airde Viking Dockyard - The 12th c. Viking Dockyard on Skye

Our Viking Dockyard reconstruction was part of an exclusive video ' Skye Story' created for the AROS Centre on Skye. Cupido started 1st of September…

Berwickshire Marine Reserve

The Berwickshire Marine Reserve was established in the 1980s to protect the remarkable coastal waters between Eyemouth and St Abbs Head. This area of…

Dun an Sticir - Iron Age Broch

The site of Dun an Sticir on North Uist forms a reminder of how different societies adapted and reused structures over time. About 2000 years ago a…

Dun an Sticer

Dun an Sticir is an example of how in mediaeval times the original Iron Age 'brochs', hollow walled windowless fortifications often built on islands…

Iceland - Viking Mosfell 1063

Working with the Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP) – members of the MAP Project, Davide Zori Phd and Professor Jesse Byock. Mosfell is in the…

Mosfell

Mosfell is in the region East of Reykjavik, Iceland. In 2007, (Scandinavian Section, and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA) was awarded a…

The Augustinian Abbey of Scone – 1390

Scone Abbey, a historic Augustinian abbey in Scotland, was founded in the 12th century and elevated to an abbey in 1169. The abbey was destroyed by a…

Edinburgh - Holyrood Palace c1544

Our depiction of Edinburgh and the Canongate was inspired by a drawing in the British Library made by the English military engineer Richard Lee, who…

Edinburgh - Trinity College c1544

Our depiction of Edinburgh and the Canongate was inspired by a drawing in the British Library made by the English military engineer Richard Lee, who…

Edinburgh - St Giles Kirk c1544

Our depiction of Edinburgh and the Canongate was inspired by a drawing in the British Library made by the English military engineer Richard Lee, who…

Edinburgh - Netherbow Port c1544

Our depiction of Edinburgh and the Canongate was inspired by a drawing in the British Library made by the English military engineer Richard Lee, who…

Edinburgh - Cowgate c1544

Our depiction of Edinburgh and the Canongate was inspired by a drawing in the British Library made by the English military engineer Richard Lee, who…

Edinburgh - West Bow c1544

Our depiction of Edinburgh and the Canongate was inspired by a drawing in the British Library made by the English military engineer Richard Lee, who…