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St Giles Kirk
St Giles’ was the most important church in the burgh of Edinburgh (although it was not a cathedral until the 1630s). In 1544 St Giles’ was still a Catholic Church. It was lavishly decorated with statues and stained glass, and housed the altars of the…
St Salvator's Chapel, St Andrews
The Chapel was founded by Bishop James Kennedy in 1450, and consecrated in October 1460. After this time the Chapel has evolved and been altered into the building as it stands today.
The Bridges Collection
The Bridges Collection was donated to the University of St Andrews by Mrs Bridges of St Andrews. Several cultural periods of Cyprus are represented by the artifacts in the collection. The Bronze and Iron Ages (particularly the Late Bronze and Early…
The Xagħra Twin Seated Figure
Twin figurine found in the Xagħra Stone Circle on the island of Gozo (Malta), dated between 4,100 and 2,500 BC. Thought to represent fertility, the left figurine is holding a baby figure.
Currently at the Ġgantija Temples Interpretation Centre.…
Linlithgow Palace - 1560
The ruins of Linlithgow Palace are situated in the town of Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, 15 miles (24 km) west of Edinburgh. The palace was one of the principal residences of the monarchs of Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries, and the…
Callanish Site 10
The site sits on top of a hill to the north of the main Calanais site and was excavated by Colin Richards. The site was surveyed and amodel reconstructed by the University of St Andrews as part of the Beneath the Peat project in conjunction with the…
Callanish Stone Circle
Callanish X (also known as "Na Dromannan" and "Druim Nan Eun") Callanish (or "Calanais") Stone Circle.
The Isle of Lewis has an extraordinarily rich prehistoric landscape, with monuments dating back more than 5,000 years to the Neolithic period. The…
St Andrews Tolbooth - 1565
Location: Middle of Market Street. Date Built: Twelfth to nineteenth centuries.
Outlined in the paving on Market Street is the location of St Andrews' former tolbooth (the Scottish equivalent of a town hall). We do not know precisely when St…
Brora Salt Pans - 16th and 18th century
The Virtual Histories Project was a collaboration between four museums (Eyemouth Museum, Shetland Museum, Taigh Chearsabhagh and Timespan) and the University of St Andrews School of Computer Science, the School of History and the SCAPE Trust.
In…
Virtual Harlem - 1920
The Virtual Harlem Project is a virtual representation of Harlem, NY as it existed during the 1920s Jazz Age. Created by Dr Bryan Carter @bcmini
In 2012, the Virtual Harlem Project was ported to Open Sim. The project is currently housed by us,…
Poets’ Neuk – St Andrews
In 2018, we collaborated with Bill Borthwick from the St Andrews Preservation Trust on a virtual representation of Poets’ Neuk, Mary Queen of Scots Memorial Garden, an abandoned plot on the corner of St Mary's Place and Greyfriars Garden in St…
Edinburgh - Grassmarket 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 accompanied Hertford’s forces in 1544. Lee’s drawing is the earliest moderately realistic picture of…
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 accompanied Hertford’s forces in 1544. Lee’s drawing is the earliest moderately realistic picture of…
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 accompanied Hertford’s forces in 1544. Lee’s drawing is the earliest moderately realistic picture of…
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 accompanied Hertford’s forces in 1544. Lee’s drawing is the earliest moderately realistic picture of…
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 accompanied Hertford’s forces in 1544. Lee’s drawing is the earliest moderately realistic picture of…
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 accompanied Hertford’s forces in 1544. Lee’s drawing is the earliest moderately realistic picture of…
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 accompanied Hertford’s forces in 1544. Lee’s drawing is the earliest moderately realistic picture of…
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 mob from Dundee during the Reformation in 1559. The site of the Abbey now lies under the front lawn…
Mosfell
Mosfell is in the region East of Reykjavik, Iceland. In 2007, (Scandinavian Section, and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA) was awarded a five-year grant from Arcadia, administered by CMRS, to complete and document the research of the first…
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 region East of Reykjavik, Iceland. In 2007, (Scandinavian Section, and the Cotsen Institute of…
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 and reached by a tricky causeway, were later adapted for more domestic purposes. The building 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 broch was built on a man-made island in Loch an Sticir. Brochs were relatively tall circular buildings…
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 the Scottish coastline is home to a remarkable mix of marine life, including grey seals, bottlenose…
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 2018. As part of the 'Skye Story', we reconstructed various periods to tell the story of evolution on…
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 part of the 'Skye Story', we reconstructed various periods to tell the story of evolution on the…
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 students to be able to engage with realistic archaeological excavation scenarios.
The practice of…
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 Fljótsdalur in eastern Iceland) was given to a community of Augustinian canons. However, there had…
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 Reformation. It was thus active for less than six decades, and could scarcely be said to have flourished for…
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 improved technologies and graphics 10 years later in 2024.
St Kilda was declared by UNESCO as a…
Fethaland Fishing Station
Using archaeological survey data and PointCloud scan data, we have created an accurate 3D interactive reconstruction of Fethaland fishing station as it would have looked in 1890, this gives a better understanding of the history of this site and…
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 it would have looked in 1890, this gives a better understanding of the history of this site and…
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 part of the 'Skye Story', we reconstructed various periods to tell the story of evolution on the…
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 the Lords of the Isles – who governed the Hebrides and parts of mainland Scotland and…
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) and Eilean na Comhairle (or Council Isle) on the loch were the site of a major residence of the…
Helmsdale
Helmsdale, a fishing village on the North East coast of Scotland.
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 harbour were built around 1818 as part of efforts at economic development by the Sutherland Estate.…
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 enabled the cultivation of barley, wheat, and oats, and the keeping of horses, sheep, and cattle. Although…
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 enabled the cultivation of barley, wheat, and oats, and the keeping of horses, sheep, and cattle. Although…
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 valley along the banks of a tumbling burn that flows into the Helmsdale River.
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 homes. Under the guise of improvement, landlords drove out traditional subsistence farmers and…
Bennachie Colony - 1850
During the early nineteenth century crofters driven out from their original homes settled on common land at Bennachie in Aberdeenshire. They established a community which became known as the Bennachie colony. The inhabitants of the colony undertook…
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 Worlds Research Team as a Student Project in the Summer of 2019. For more information on the project,…
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 – and legitimate – distilleries as well as for it’s beautiful and rugged countryside. Using the…
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.
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. However, earth was also a popular building material in parts of Scotland, with mudwall dwellings…
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 created by the picts. The Picts created their cemetery a short distance away from an older ceremonial…
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 studies were undertaken by Victorian archaeologists, who had no access to carbon dating, but the sites…
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 a project to enable people to discover medieval Perth in the year 1440 through 360° virtual images…
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 recently conquered England). In a show of force William brought a fleet of ships up the River Tay,…
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, England and France. Beginning life as an English fortification, it may have been the first Trace…
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 Scotland.1 Acting on instructions from their monarch, the English forces captured and sacked Leith before…
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 Andrews is best known for its golf courses and ancient university. However, it also has a long…