'The sudden death of his (George Bain's) wife in 1957 was a tremendous grief to him. In her memory he designed a bronze plaque which marks the resting place of her scattered ashes in the Highlands'.
His book Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction was published in 1951. It had little impact at the time, but on its re-issue in 1971 it introduced a generation to Celtic knotwork, the Pictish stones, the Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow. As well…
If you walk through the wood near to the coast in Tentsmuir, you will probably notice the ground is very hummocky. These hummocks are fossilised dunes. They were formed by the same process as normal sand dunes, and therefore show where the beach…