lanarkshire-1978/03_017

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TWENTIETH REPORT

of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical
Monuments of Scotland

TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY
We, Your Majesty's Commissioners, appointed to make an Inventory of the Ancient and
Historical Monuments and Constructions connected with or illustrative of the contemporary
culture, civilisation and conditions of life of the people in Scotland from the earliest times to
the year 1707, and such further Monuments and Constructions subsequent to that year as
may seem in our discretion worthy of mention therein, and to specify those which seem most
worthy of preservation, humbly present to Your Majesty the following Report, being the
Twentieth Report on the work of the Commission since its first appointment.

2. We recall with pleasure Your Majesty's gracious acceptance of the volume embodying
our Nineteenth Report with the Inventory of the Ancient Monuments of Lorn, on the occasion
of Your Majesty's visit to our exhibition 'Recording Scotland's Heritage' in the Canongate
Tolbooth, Edinburgh, on 9 July 1975.

3. It is with regret that we have to record the retirement of Mr. A. Graham, M.A., F.S.A.,
Mr P. J. Nuttgens, M.A., Ph.D., R.I.B.A., and Professor Stuart Piggott, C.B.E., B.Litt.,
D.Litt., F.B.A., F.S.A., F.R.S.E. Mr Graham served the Commission for almost forty years,
initially as Secretary from 1935 to 1957 and then as a Commissioner, while Professor Piggott
was a member of the Commission for thirty years (1946-76).

4. We have to thank Your Majesty for the appointment to the Commission of Professor R. J.
Cramp, B.Litt., M.A., F.S.A., and Mr H. M. Colvin, C.B.E., M.A., F.B.A., Hon,F.R.I.B.A.,
under Your Majesty's Royal Sign Warrants of 18 November 1974 and 14 December 1976
respectively, and for the reappointment of Professor G. Donaldson, Mr. J. D. Dunbar-
Nasmith, Professor A. A. M. Duncan, and Professor K. H. Jackson.

5. Following our usual practice we have prepared an illustrated Inventory of the Prehistoric
and Roman monuments of Lanarkshire, which will be issued as a non-Parliamentary publica-
tion.

6. From the wide range of prehistoric monuments covered by the survey, the numerous
Bronze Age cist-cemeteries are particularly worthy of mention. Records of these are often
inadequate, but our re-examination and listing of the surviving relics have provided a firm
basis for any future research in this field. Excavations which we have carried out on several
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