A survey of Scotland's archaeology and prehistory, from the earliest times to the union of the Picts and the Scots in AD 843. Scotland is unusually rich in field monuments and objects surviving from prehistory - from isolated cairn burial stones to Maes Howe, and from plain pottery bowls to the exquisite silverwork of the St Ninian's Isle treasure. Graham and Anna Ritchie examine these finds and drawing on their own excavations, describe in detail the societies that have inhabited Scotland.