| Maiden Castle: excavations and field survey 1985-6 NM Sharples English Heritage, 2013 | 275 | 2013 |
| Social relations in later prehistory: Wessex in the first millennium BC N Sharples Oxford University Press, USA, 2010 | 248 | 2010 |
| Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos LJE Cramp, J Jones, A Sheridan, J Smyth, H Whelton, J Mulville, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1780), 20132372, 2014 | 195 | 2014 |
| Between land and sea: excavations at Dun Vulan, South Uist M Parker Pearson, NMP Sharples Sheffield Academic Press, 1999 | 142 | 1999 |
| South Uist: archaeology and history of a Hebridean island M Parker Pearson, NMP Sharples, J Symonds Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2004 | 123 | 2004 |
| South Uist: archaeology and history of a Hebridean island M Parker Pearson, NMP Sharples, J Symonds Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2004 | 123 | 2004 |
| English Heritage Book of Maiden Castle NMP Sharples BT Batsford/English Heritage, 1991 | 114* | 1991 |
| Excavations at pierowall quarry, westray, Orkney NM Sharples, A Barlow, DA Birkett, A Clarke, AS Clarke, F MacCormick, ... Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 114, 75-125, 1985 | 111 | 1985 |
| English Heritage Book of Maiden Castle NMP Sharples BT Batsford/English Heritage, 1991 | 94 | 1991 |
| Scalloway: a broch, late Iron Age settlement and medieval cemetery in Shetland NMP Sharples Oxbow Books, 1998 | 91 | 1998 |
| Settlements and subsistence in the third millennium BC DV Clarke, N Sharples The prehistory of Orkney 4000, 54-82, 1985 | 90 | 1985 |
| Warfare in the Iron Age of Wessex NMP Sharples Scottish Archaeological Review 8, 79-89, 1991 | 88 | 1991 |
| Vessels for the Ancestors: essays on the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland in honour of Audrey Henshall NM Sharples, A Sheridan (No Title), 1992 | 81* | 1992 |
| Building communities and creating identities in the first millennium BC N Sharples The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the near continent, 174-84, 2007 | 79 | 2007 |
| Brochs and Iron Age society: a reappraisal MP Pearson, N Sharples, J Mulville Antiquity 70 (267), 57-67, 1996 | 77 | 1996 |
| A Norse farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: excavations at mound 3, Bornais, South Uist N Sharples Oxbow Books, 2005 | 70 | 2005 |
| Individual and community: the changing role of megaliths in the Orcadian Neolithic N Sharples Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 51 (1), 59-74, 1985 | 70 | 1985 |
| Norse settlement in the Outer Hebrides N Sharples, MP Pearson Norwegian archaeological review 32 (1), 41-62, 1999 | 69 | 1999 |
| Antlers and Orcadian rituals: an ambiguous role for red deer in the Neolithic NMP Sharples McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2000 | 57 | 2000 |
| Why were brochs built? Recent studies in the Iron Age of Atlantic Scotland NMP Sharples, M Parker Pearson Oxbow Books, 1997 | 56 | 1997 |
