M.C. Bishop (ed.). Roman Inveresk past, present and future: papers from a seminar held at the National Museum of Scotland on Wednesday 8th December 1999.

M.C. Bishop (ed.). Roman Inveresk past, present and future: papers from a seminar held at the National Museum of Scotland on Wednesday 8th December 1999. vi+ 104 pages, 61 b&w figures, 2 colour figures, 1 table. 2002.Duns: Armatura; 0-95398-486-9 paperback. STURT W. MANNING, ANDREW MANNING, ROBERTA TOMBER, DAVID David, in the BibleDavid,d. c.970 B.C., king of ancient Israel (c.1010–970 B.C.), successor of Saul. The Book of First Samuel introduces him as the youngest of eight sons who is anointed king by Samuel to replace Saul, who had been deemed a failure. A. SEWELL,SARAH J. MONKS, MATTHEW J. PONTING & ELINOR C. RIBEIRO with HELLAECKARDT, SHERRY C. Fox, lan C. FREESTONE free��stone?n.1. A stone, such as limestone, that is soft enough to be cut easily without shattering or splitting.2. A fruit, especially a peach, that has a stone that does not adhere to the pulp. See Regional Note at andiron. , MICHAEL J. HUGHES, JANEJALUTKEWICZ, HECTOR NEFF, MARCUS RAUTMAN & JENNY WILSON. The lateRoman church at Maroni Petrera: survey and salvage excavations1990-1997, and other traces of Roman remains in the lower Maroni Valley,Cyprus. vi+84 pages, 103 b&w & colour figures, 4 tables. 2002.Nicosia: A.G. Leventis Foundation; 9963-56042-3 paperback 25 [poundssterling] & US$40. With the help of an introduction from D.J. Breeze, Inveresk isreviewed in eight succinct and well illustrated technical papers (ed.BISHOP) covering aerial photography and various digs of sites andfeatures Roman, Medieval and prehistoric. There are also contributionson finds made earlier and the management of the site today. In additionis a gazetteer gazetteer(găz'ĭtēr`), dictionary or encyclopedia listing alphabetically the names of places, political divisions, and physical features of the earth and giving some information about each. of 32 other sites in the vicinity, several of them amplyannotated. The lower Maroni valley is given like treatment by DrMANNING, with reports on survey, digs, stratigraphy and finds. The focusis the church, the site, he argues, of cultural transformation in a'busy' landscape at the end of the Roman period.