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This article explores the ways in which Scottish Enlightenment writers such as Lord Kames, Adam Smith, David Hume and William Robertson used the concept of ‘resentment’ as a means of understanding and, hopefully, taming the Scottish past. It argues that historical narrative was crucial to the process of analyzing the role of the passions in human relations, and that while it drew on the developing social theory of the Scottish Enlightenment, it also provided a distinctive and nuanced account of the various operations of resentment that more theoretical formulations could not adequately represent.

Two cists representing common forms of Bronze Age burial monument were excavated in 1992 in Orkney. A short flat cist at Midskaill, on the island of Egilsay, was previously unrecorded and it contained coarse pottery sherds and 'cramp' (vitrified cremation slag). No human bone was found. The second cist, located within a mound at Linga Fiold, Sandwick, on Mainland Orkney, contained human bone and cramp. The Linga Fiold mound is one of a recorded and partially excavated group (RCAHMS 1946, no 713). The work was carried out with funding from Historic

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