Article
Foster S (2023) Stone of Destiny Study. Westminster Abbey Review, 14 (Summer), pp. 17-21.
Commentary
This is archaeology. Impacting heritage, landscape and lives
Foster S & Mattingly D (2023) This is archaeology. Impacting heritage, landscape and lives. British Archaeology, (188), pp. 44-51. https://www.archaeologyuk.org/what-we-do/british-archaeology-magazine.html
Book Chapter
Foster S (2022) Smashing casts: replication of early medieval sculpture as a case study in the fragility of cultural value. In: Alexandridis A & Winkler-Horacek L (eds.) Destroy the Copy – Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th–20th c.: Demolition, Defacement, Disposal in Europe and Beyond. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 375-400. https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110757965/html
Book Chapter
Beyond the Corpus: a heritage perspective on new and future lives for Anglo-Saxon sculpture
Foster S (2022) Beyond the Corpus: a heritage perspective on new and future lives for Anglo-Saxon sculpture. In: Semple S & Hawkes J (eds.) Art, Image, Power and Place: Contextualising the Stone Sculpture of Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Oxbow Books Ltd. https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/art-image-power-and-place.html
Policy Document
EAA Statement on Nurturing the Cycle of Good Archaeological Practice
Foster S, Lewis C, Mina M & Taloni M (2022) EAA Statement on Nurturing the Cycle of Good Archaeological Practice. European Association of Archaeologists. Prague, Czechia. https://www.e-a-a.org/2022Statement
Book Chapter
Making the contemporary 'human story' of our monuments and their replicas matter
Foster S (2022) Making the contemporary 'human story' of our monuments and their replicas matter. In: Thomas C & Murphy P (eds.) Ireland: The Matter of Monuments. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Edited Book
Early Christian Churches and Landscapes in Britain and Ireland
Pickles T & Foster SM (eds.) (2022) Early Christian Churches and Landscapes in Britain and Ireland. Studies in the Early Middle Ages (SEM). Turnhout: Brepols. http://www.brepols.net/Pages/BrowseBySeries.aspx?TreeSeries=SEM
Book Review
Review of Conceiving a Nation. Scotland to AD 900
Foster S (2021) Review of Conceiving a Nation. Scotland to AD 900. Review of: Conceiving a Nation. Scotland to ad 900. (The New History of Scotland Volume 1).: By Gilbert Márkus. 14 x 22 cm. xiv +295 pp, 13 b&w figs. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. isbn 978-0-7486-7899-0.. Medieval Archaeology, 65 (1), pp. 206-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2021.1923890
Newspaper Article
Carved Stones. Perspectives from Iona Abbey on Values and Significance
Foster S (2020) Carved Stones. Perspectives from Iona Abbey on Values and Significance. Historic Churches. The Conservation and Repair of Ecclesiastical Buildings. The Buildings Conservation Directory. Special Report on Historic Churches. 2020, pp. 15-18.
Authored Book
My Life as a Replica: St John's Cross, Iona
Foster S & Jones S (2020) My Life as a Replica: St John's Cross, Iona. Oxford: Windgather Press / Oxbow Books. https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/my-life-as-a-replica.html
Book Chapter
Foster S & Jones S (2020) The concrete and non-concrete. In: My Life as a Replica: St John's Cross, Iona. Oxford: Windgather Press / Oxbow Books, pp. 1-4. https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/my-life-as-a-replica.html
Article
Foster S (2020) New Futures for Replicas. News in Conservation, (80), pp. 14-19. https://www.iiconservation.org/system/files/publications/journal/2020/b2020_5.pdf
Audio
The lives and value of replicas
Foster S (2020) The lives and value of replicas. AskHistorians Podcast Episode 157 [Podcast] 24.09.2020. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/iz5xmu/askhistorians_podcast_episode_157_the_lives_and/
Other
Foster S & Jones S (2020) Rethinking replicas. Collections Trust [Blog Post] 27.08.2020. https://collectionstrust.org.uk/blog/rethinking-replicas/
Manual / Guide
New Futures for Replicas: Principles and Guidance for Museums and Heritage
Foster S & Jones S (2020) New Futures for Replicas: Principles and Guidance for Museums and Heritage. Stirling: University of Stirling.
Newspaper Article
Foster S & Jones S (2020) My Life as a Replica [St John's Cross replica 50th anniversary]. History Scotland, 20(3). 10.04.2020, pp. 37-39.
Website Content
Letting the St John's Cross speak
Foster S (2020) Letting the St John's Cross speak. Iona Research Group [Blog post] 13.01.2020. https://ionaresearchgroup.arts.gla.ac.uk/index.php/2020/01/13/letting-the-st-johns-cross-iona-speak/
Book Chapter
"A bright crowd of chancels": whither early church archaeology in Scotland?
Foster S (2019) "A bright crowd of chancels": whither early church archaeology in Scotland?. In: Blackwell A (ed.) Scotland in Early Medieval Europe. Leiden: Sidestone Press, pp. 35-49. https://www.sidestone.com/books/scotland-in-early-medieval-europe
Article
The untold heritage value and significance of replicas
Foster SM & Jones S (2019) The untold heritage value and significance of replicas. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, 21 (1), pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/13505033.2019.1588008
Article
Foster SM & Jones S (2019) Concrete and non-concrete: exploring the contemporary authenticity of historic replicas through an ethnographic study of the St John's Cross replica, Iona. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 25 (11), pp. 1169-1188. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2019.1583272
Book Review
Manx crosses: a handbook of stone sculpture 500-1040 in the Isle of Man
Foster S (2019) Manx crosses: a handbook of stone sculpture 500-1040 in the Isle of Man. Review of:
by David M. Wilson, Oxford, Archaeopress Archaeology 388, 2018, iv and 182 pp., Illus. 63, ISBN: 978 1 78491 757 9. Archaeological Journal, 176 (2), pp. 395-396. https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2019.1590955
Website Content
Scottish agency in the V&A Cast Court collection
Foster S (2018) Scottish agency in the V&A Cast Court collection. [Blog] 05.12.2018.
Other
Learning from Loss Climate Stories
Graham E, Hambly J, Robson L, Rockman M, Gao Q, Foster S, Miller S & Dawson T (2018) Learning from Loss Climate Stories. [Web]. https://issuu.com/joannahambly/docs/learning_from_loss_climate_stories
Newspaper Article
The V&A in Dundee - the city shares more than a century of history with the London museum
Foster S (2018) The V&A in Dundee - the city shares more than a century of history with the London museum. The Conversation. 08.11.2018.
Book Chapter
Society for Medieval Archaeology
Foster S (2018) Society for Medieval Archaeology. In: Smith C (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2
Book Chapter
Replication of things: the case for composite biographical approaches
Foster S (2018) Replication of things: the case for composite biographical approaches. In: Codell J & Hughes L (eds.) Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century: Re-makings and Reproductions. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 23-44. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-replication-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-hb.html
Authored Book
Maeshowe and The Heart of Neolithic Orkney
Pickering R & Foster S (2017) Maeshowe and The Heart of Neolithic Orkney. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Historic Environment Scotland.
Book Review
Foster S (2017) Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval Europe. Integrating archaeological and historical approaches. Review of:
J Sanchez-Pardo and M G Shapland (eds). Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium, xvi + 553 pp. ISBN 978 2 5035 4555. Landscape History, 38 (1), pp. 101-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2017.1322274
Book Chapter
Foster S (2017) Icolmkill: the ruins of Iona. In: Carter M, Lindfield P & Townsend D (eds.) Writing Britain's Ruins. London: British Library, pp. 158-161. http://bookshop.nationalarchives.gov.uk/9780712309783/Writing-Britain%27s-Ruins/
Article
Foster S, Blackwell A & Goldberg M (2017) The legacy of nineteenth-century replicas for object cultural biographies: lessons in duplication from 1830s Fife. St Andrews Preservation Trust Annual Report and Year Book, 2016, pp. 43-60. http://www.standrewspreservationtrust.com/STAPTyearbooks/79-2016/index.htm
Book Chapter
Expiscation! Disentangling the later biography of the St Andrews Sarcophagus
Foster S (2016) Expiscation! Disentangling the later biography of the St Andrews Sarcophagus. In: Hunter F & Sheridan A (eds.) Ancient Lives: Object, People and Place in Early Scotland. Essays for David V Clarke on his 70th birthday. Leiden: Sidestone Press, pp. 165-186. https://www.sidestone.com/books/ancient-lives
Other
Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland
Foster S, Forsyth K, Buckham S & Jeffrey S (2016) Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland. History Scotland, 16 (6), pp. 8-10.
Other
Modern impact on the fabric of the Ruthwell Cross
Hobma H, O'Donnell D, Karkov C, Foster S, Graham J, Osborn W, del Turco R, Broatch R, Broatch S, Callieri M & Dellepiane M (2016) Modern impact on the fabric of the Ruthwell Cross. Old English Newsletter, 46 (1). http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/issue/ruthwell.php
Research Report
Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland: A Research Framework (Case Studies)
Foster S, Forsyth K, Buckham S & Jeffrey S (2016) Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland: A Research Framework (Case Studies). Scottish Archaeological Research Framework: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. http://www.carvedstones.scot/uploads/4/4/0/3/44032535/cs_scarf_case_studies.pdf
Research Report
Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland: A Research Framework (Core Text)
Foster S, Forsyth K, Buckham S & Jeffrey S (2016) Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland: A Research Framework (Core Text). Scottish Archaeological Research Framework: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. http://www.carvedstones.scot/uploads/4/4/0/3/44032535/cs_scarf_full.pdf
Website Content
Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland: A Research Framework
Foster S, Forsyth K, Buckham S & Jeffrey S (2016) Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland: A Research Framework. ScARF: Scottish Archaeological Research Framework, 24.08.2016. http://www.scottishheritagehub.com/content/future-thinking-carved-stones-scotland
Article
The thing about replicas - why historic replicas matter
Foster S & Curtis N (2016) The thing about replicas - why historic replicas matter. European Journal of Archaeology, 19 (1), pp. 122-148. https://doi.org/10.1179/1461957115Y.0000000011
Conference Proceeding
Physical evidence for the early church in Scotland
Foster S (2015) Physical evidence for the early church in Scotland. In: Barnwell P (ed.) Places of Worship in Britain and Ireland, 300-950. Buildings for Worship in Britain: Celtic and Anglo-Saxon, Oxford, 08.01.2010-10.01.2010. Donington: Paul Watkins Publishing, pp. 68-91. https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/infosysfiles/O09P125HCR_1_Application.pdf
Other
Early Victorian replicas of the St Andrews Sarcophagus and their legacy
Foster S (2015) Early Victorian replicas of the St Andrews Sarcophagus and their legacy. History Scotland, 15 (4), pp. 32-37. https://www.celebrate-scotland.co.uk/Shop/801-22/Back_Issues/History_Scotland_-_Vol15Issue4_JulAug15/
Article
Circulating agency: The V&A, Scotland and the multiplication of plaster casts of 'Celtic crosses'
Foster S (2015) Circulating agency: The V&A, Scotland and the multiplication of plaster casts of 'Celtic crosses'. Journal of the History of Collections, 27 (1), pp. 73-96. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhu008
Other
Foster S (2015) Celtic collections and imperial connections. The V&A, Scotland and the multiplication of plaster casts of 'Celtic crosses'. History Scotland, 15 (2), pp. 16-21.
Book Review
Foster S (2015) The Hirsel Excavations. Review of:
R Cramp, Leeds, Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2014, 359pp, ISBN 978 1 909662 35 3.. Speculum, 90 (1), pp. 233-235. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0038713414003066
Book Chapter
Society for Medieval Archaeology
Foster S (2014) Society for Medieval Archaeology. In: Smith C (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York: Springer, pp. 6775-6776. http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1787
Book Chapter
Foster S (2014) Medieval Archaeology. In: Smith C (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York: Springer, pp. 4736-4737. http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1774
Article
Foster S, Blackwell A & Goldberg M (2014) The legacy of nineteenth-century replicas for object cultural biographies: lessons in duplication from 1830s Fife. Journal of Victorian Culture, 19 (2), pp. 137-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2014.919079
Authored Book
Picts, Gaels and Scots. Early Historic Scotland
Foster S (2014) Picts, Gaels and Scots. Early Historic Scotland. 3rd ed. Edinburgh: Birlinn. http://www.birlinn.co.uk/Picts-Gaels-and-Scots.html
Book Review
Pagan and Christian. Religious Change in Early Medieval Europe
Foster S (2013) Pagan and Christian. Religious Change in Early Medieval Europe. Review of:
D Petts, London, Bristol Classical Press, 2011. 144 pp. ISBN 978-0-7156-375408. Medieval Archaeology, 57 (1), pp. 353-355. https://doi.org/10.1179/0076609713Z.00000000028
Book Chapter
Embodied energies, embedded stories: releasing the potential of casts of early medieval sculptures
Foster S (2013) Embodied energies, embedded stories: releasing the potential of casts of early medieval sculptures. In: Hawkes J (ed.) Making Histories: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Insular Art, York 2011. Donington: Shaun Tyas, pp. 339-357. http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/making-histories.html
Book Review
The Chapel and Burial Ground on St Ninian’s Isle, Shetland: Excavations Past and Present
Foster S (2013) The Chapel and Burial Ground on St Ninian’s Isle, Shetland: Excavations Past and Present. Review of:
R Barrowman, London, Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2011. 256pp. ISBN 978-1-907975-46-2. Medieval Archaeology, 57 (1), pp. 357-358. https://doi.org/10.1179/0076609713Z.00000000028
Book Review
An Animate Landscape: Rock Art and the Prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland
Foster S (2013) An Animate Landscape: Rock Art and the Prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland. Review of:
A M Jones, D Freedman, B O’Connor, H Landin-Whymark, R Tipping and A Watson, Oxford, Windgather Press, 2011. 400 pp. ISBN 978-1-905119-41-7. European Journal of Archaeology, 16 (4), pp. 742-747. https://doi.org/10.1179/146195713X13721618716118
Book Chapter
Piktiska paraller til Gotland’s bildstenar?
Foster S (2012) Piktiska paraller til Gotland’s bildstenar?. In: Karnell M (ed.) Gotlands Bildstenar – Järnålderns Gåtfulla Budbärare. Meddelanden från Föreningen Gotlands Fornvänner, 84. Visby: Fornsalen Publishing, Gotland Museum, pp. 171-182.
Book Chapter
Pictish parallels for Gotland’s picture stones?
Foster S (2012) Pictish parallels for Gotland’s picture stones?. In: Karnell M (ed.) Gotland's Picture Stones: Bearers of an Enigmatic Legacy. Reports from the Friends of the Historical Museum Association, 84. Visby, Sweden: Fornsalen Publishing, Gotlands Museum, pp. 171-182. http://shop.textalk.se/en/article.php?id=18478&art=14310497
Book Review
Historic Whithorn: Archaeology and Development
Foster S (2011) Historic Whithorn: Archaeology and Development. Review of: Historic Whithorn: Archaeology and Development (The Scottish Burgh Survey), R D Oram, P F Martin, C A McKean and T Neighbour, York: Historic Scotland/Council for British Archaeology, 2010, 69pp. ISBN 978 1 902771 82 3. Medieval Archaeology, 55 (1), pp. 402-403. https://doi.org/10.1179/med.2011.55.1.378
Book Review
Churches in Early Medieval Ireland
Foster S (2011) Churches in Early Medieval Ireland. Review of: Churches in Early Medieval Ireland. Architecture, Ritual and Memory, Tomas Ó Carragain, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011, 400pp. ISBN 978 0 300 15444 3. Medieval Archaeology, 55 (1), pp. 343-344. https://doi.org/10.1179/174581711X13103897378726
Article
The curatorial consequences of being moved, moveable or portable: the case of carved stones
Foster S (2010) The curatorial consequences of being moved, moveable or portable: the case of carved stones. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 32 (1), pp. 15-28. http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/saj.2011.0005; https://doi.org/10.3366/saj.2011.0005
Book Chapter
Shaping up rock art in Scotland: past progress, future directions
Foster S (2010) Shaping up rock art in Scotland: past progress, future directions. In: Barnett T & Sharpe K (eds.) Carving a Future for British Rock Art. New Directions for Research, Management and Presentation. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 82-93. http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/carving-a-future-for-british-rock-art.html
Book Review
West Over Sea. Studies in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement before 1300
Foster S (2010) West Over Sea. Studies in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement before 1300. Review of: West Over Sea. Studies in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement before 1300. A Festschrift in honour of Dr Barbara E. Crawford, ed Beverley Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor and Gareth Williams, Leiden: Brill, 2007; 586pp. ISBN 978 90 04 15893 1. English Historical Review, CXXV (512), pp. 139-141. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep388
Authored Book
A Fragmented Masterpiece: Recovering the Biography of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Cross-slab
James H, Henderson I, Foster S & Jones S (2008) A Fragmented Masterpiece: Recovering the Biography of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Cross-slab. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/sas_books_2016/bookcontents.cfm?mono=1369067
Book Chapter
Recovering the biography of the Hilton of Cadboll cross-slab
Foster S & Jones S (2008) Recovering the biography of the Hilton of Cadboll cross-slab. In: James H, Henderson I, Foster S & Jones S (eds.) A Fragmented Masterpiece. Recovering the Biography of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Cross-slab. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, pp. 205-284. https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/sas_books_2016/bookcontents.cfm?mono=1369067
Book Chapter
Clarke DV & Foster S (2008) The Project. In: James H, Henderson I, Foster S & Jones S (eds.) A Fragmented Masterpiece. Recovering the Biography of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Cross-slab. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, pp. 1-11. http://www.socantscot.org/partnumber.asp?pnid=236437
Book Chapter
The topography of people’s lives: geography until 1314
Foster S (2007) The topography of people’s lives: geography until 1314. In: Clancy T & Pittock M (eds.) The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, Volume 1. From Columba to the Union (until 1707). Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 44-51. http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748616152
Book Chapter
Kisimul Castle: recent work by Historic Scotland
Foster S (2006) Kisimul Castle: recent work by Historic Scotland. In: Kruse A & Ross A (eds.) Barra and Skye: Two Hebridean Perspectives. Edinburgh: Scottish Society for Northern Studies, pp. 47-65. http://www.ssns.org.uk/publications/books.html
Authored Book
Maeshowe and the Heart of Neolithic Orkney
Foster S (2006) Maeshowe and the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. Historic Scotland Offical Souvenir Guide. Edinburgh: Historic Scotland.
Book Chapter
Foster S (2005) Know your properties, recognise the possibilities: Historic Scotland’s strategy for the interpretation of early medieval sculpture in its care. In: Foster S & Cross M (eds.) Able Minds and Practised Hands: Scotland’s Early Medieval Sculpture in the 21st Century. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph, 23. Leeds: Society for Medieval Archaeology per Maney, pp. 315-323. http://www.maney.spiralcom.co.uk/index.php/books/sma23/
Book Chapter
Introduction. Able Minds and Practised Hands: historical fact, 21st-century aspiration
Foster S (2005) Introduction. Able Minds and Practised Hands: historical fact, 21st-century aspiration. In: Foster S & Cross M (eds.) Able Minds and Practised Hands: Scotland’s Early Medieval Sculpture in the 21st Century. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph, 23. Leeds: Maney for Society for Medieval Archaeology, pp. 1-12. http://www.maney.spiralcom.co.uk/index.php/books/sma23/
Edited Book
Able Minds and Practised Hands: Scotland’s Early Medieval Sculpture in the 21st Century
Foster S & Cross M (eds.) (2005) Able Minds and Practised Hands: Scotland’s Early Medieval Sculpture in the 21st Century. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs, 23. Leeds: Maney Publishing for Society for Medieval Archaeology. http://www.maney.spiralcom.co.uk/index.php/books/sma23/
Edited Book
The Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site Research Agenda - Part 1
Downes J, Foster S & Wickham-Jones C (eds.) (2005) The Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site Research Agenda - Part 1. Edinburgh: Historic Scotland. http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/publicationsresultsdetail.htm?id=12721
Authored Book
Picts, Gaels and Scots. Early Historic Scotland
Foster S (2004) Picts, Gaels and Scots. Early Historic Scotland. 2nd ed. London: Batsford/Historic Scotland.
Book Review
Leslie Alcock, Kings and Warriors, Craftsmen and Priests in Northern Britain AD 550-850
Foster S (2004) Leslie Alcock, Kings and Warriors, Craftsmen and Priests in Northern Britain AD 550-850. Review of: Kings and Warriors, Craftsmen and Priests in Northern Britain AD 550-850, Leslie Alcock, Edinburgh, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2003, 460pp, ISBN 0 903903 24 5. The Innes Review, 55 (2), pp. 224-5. https://doi.org/10.3366/inr.2004.55.2.224
Book Review
Lane and Campbell, Dunadd: An early Dalriadic Capital
Foster S (2003) Lane and Campbell, Dunadd: An early Dalriadic Capital. Review of: Dunadd: an early Dalriadic Capital, Alan Lane and Ewan Campbell, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2000, pp.295. ISBN 978-1842170243. Scottish Historical Review, 82 (1), pp. 130-131. http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/shr.2003.82.1.130; https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2003.82.1.130
Book Chapter
Carved Stones Policy – new developments
Foster S (2002) Carved Stones Policy – new developments. In: Dakin A (ed.) Conservation of Historic Graveyards. Guide for Practitioners, 2. Edinburgh: Historic Scotland, pp. 1-4. http://conservation.historic-scotland.gov.uk/publication-detail.htm?pubid=7158
Book Chapter
Planning for early medieval sculpture. The recovery and recognition of sense, place and setting
Foster S (2002) Planning for early medieval sculpture. The recovery and recognition of sense, place and setting. In: Green L & Bidwell P (eds.) The Heritage of the North Sea Region. Conservation and Interpretation. Shaftesbury: Donhead, pp. 151-72.
Book Chapter
Analysis of spatial patterns in buildings
Foster S (2002) Analysis of spatial patterns in buildings. In: Carr G & Stoddart S (eds.) Celts from Antiquity. Antiquity Papers, 2. Cambridge: Antiquity Publications Ltd, pp. 303-314. http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/celts-from-antiquity.html
Article
Foster S & Stevenson JB (2002) 'The Auchenlaich long cairn’ in G Barclay, K Brophy and G MacGregor ‘Claish, Stirling: an early Neolithic structure in its context’. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 132, pp. 114-119. http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_132/132_065_137.pdf
Article
World Heritage Site buffer zones: statements of fact or aspiration?
Foster S & Linge L (2002) World Heritage Site buffer zones: statements of fact or aspiration?. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, 5 (3), pp. 141-150. https://doi.org/10.1179/135050302793138055
Authored Book
Place, Space and Odyssey. Exploring the Future of Early Medieval Sculpture
Foster S (2001) Place, Space and Odyssey. Exploring the Future of Early Medieval Sculpture. Groam House lecture series. Rosemarkie: Groam House Museum.
Book Chapter
Before Alba: Pictish and Dál Riata power centres from the fifth to late ninth centuries AD
Foster S (1998) Before Alba: Pictish and Dál Riata power centres from the fifth to late ninth centuries AD. In: Foster S, Macinnes A & MacInnes R (eds.) Scottish Power Centres: from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Glasgow: Cruithne Press, pp. 1-31.
Book Chapter
Discovery, recovery, context and display
Foster S (1998) Discovery, recovery, context and display. In: Foster S (ed.) The St Andrews Sarcophagus: A Pictish Masterpiece and its International Connections. Dublin: Four Courts Press, pp. 36-62.
Edited Book
Scottish Power Centres from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
Foster S, Macinnes A & MacInnes R (eds.) (1998) Scottish Power Centres from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Glasgow: Cruithne Press.
Edited Book
The St Andrews Sarcophagus: A Pictish Masterpiece and its International Connections
Foster S (ed.) (1998) The St Andrews Sarcophagus: A Pictish Masterpiece and its International Connections. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
Book Chapter
Foster S (1997) The Early Historic period. In: Barclay G (ed.) State-funded ‘Rescue’ Archaeology in Scotland. Past, Present and Future. Edinburgh: Historic Scotland, pp. 32-33.
Book Chapter
The Picts: ''Quite the darkest of the Peoples of Dark Age Britain”?
Foster S (1997) The Picts: ''Quite the darkest of the Peoples of Dark Age Britain”?. In: Henry D (ed.) The Worm, the Germ and the Thorn. Pictish and Related Studies Presented to Isabel Henderson. Balgavies: Pinkfoot Press, pp. 5-17. http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-worm-the-germ-and-the-thorn.html
Book Chapter
The strength of belief: the impact of Christianity on early historic Scotland
Foster S (1997) The strength of belief: the impact of Christianity on early historic Scotland. In: de Boe G & Verhaeghe F (eds.) Religion and Belief in Medieval Europe. Papers of the ‘Medieval Europe Brugge 1997’ Conference, Volume 4. Zellik: IAP Rapporten, pp. 229-240.
Authored Book
Foster S (1996) Picts, Gaels and Scots. London: Batsford/Historic Scotland.
Book Chapter
The potential and significance of field system remains
Foster S & Hingley R (1995) The potential and significance of field system remains. In: Foster S & Smout T (eds.) The History of Soils and Field Systems. Aberdeen: Scottish Cultural Press, pp. 135-144.
Edited Book
The History of Soils and Field Systems
Foster S & Smout TC (eds.) (1995) The History of Soils and Field Systems. Aberdeen: Scottish Cultural Press.
Book Chapter
The state of Pictland in the age of Sutton Hoo
Foster S (1992) The state of Pictland in the age of Sutton Hoo. In: Carver M (ed.) The Age of Sutton Hoo. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 217-234. http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=6687
Book Chapter
Passing the time in Iron Age Scotland
Barrett J & Foster S (1991) Passing the time in Iron Age Scotland. In: Hanson W & Slater E (eds.) Scottish Archaeology: New Perceptions. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, pp. 44-56.
Book Chapter
Pins, combs and the chronology of Later Atlantic Iron Age Settlement
Foster S (1990) Pins, combs and the chronology of Later Atlantic Iron Age Settlement. In: Armit I (ed.) Beyond the Brochs: Changing Perspectives on the Later Iron Age in Atlantic Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 143-174.
Article
Transformations in social space: Iron Age Orkney and Caithness
Foster S (1989) Transformations in social space: Iron Age Orkney and Caithness. Scottish Archaeological Review, 6, pp. 34-55.
Article
Foster S (1989) Analysis of spatial patterns in buildings (access analysis) as an insight into social structure: examples from the Scottish Atlantic Iron Age. Antiquity, 63 (238), pp. 40-50. http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/063/Ant0630040.htm
Article
Early Medieval Inscription at Holcombe, Somerset
Foster S (1988) Early Medieval Inscription at Holcombe, Somerset. Medieval Archaeology, 32, pp. 208-211. http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/med_arch/
Article
Anglo-Saxon sculpture in historic Somerset
Foster S (1987) Anglo-Saxon sculpture in historic Somerset. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 131, pp. 49-80.
Article
Alcock L, Alcock EA & Foster S (1986) Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84: 1, Excavations near St Abb's Head, Berwickshire, 1980. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 116, pp. 255-279. http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_116/116_255_279.pdf