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Moray Archaeology for All
Since the 1990s, National Museums Scotland have been researching the Iron Age people of the Moray area, their links to the Roman world, and the development of the Picts. The Moray Archaeology for All...
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Glasgow Archaeological Society
Since 1856, the Glasgow Archaeological Society has been fostering public awareness of the importance of archaeology in increasing our understanding of the past through its programme of lectures,...
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Scottish Archaeology and Heritage Festival
September is a momentous month for Scottish archaeology. It opens with delegates gathering for the prestigious European Association of Archaeologists conference in Glasgow, and then launches into the...
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Kildavie Excavation 2016
Planning the Remains (Photo: HARP) The Field School will consist of 2 weeks excavation at the abandoned settlement of Kildavie, possibly dating back to the early medieval period. The settlement was...
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Jacobites, Clearance and Scots!
Recording a section of Wade’s Road (Photo: HARP) This field school will record the historical and archaeological sites dating to the 18th Century. The location of the project is inspired by a series of...
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Newbarns Project
Stone lined medieval drain. (Photo: Lisbet Penman) Three kerb cairns dating from the Neolithic to the medieval, multi settlement eras. Numerous prehistoric cremation burials dating from Early Bronze...
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Battle Hill Prehistoric Landscape Project
Learning to dig with Rampart Scotland. (Photo: M Cook). Battle Hill, Huntly named after a daring raid in 1307 during the Scottish Wars of Independence contains a variety of unmapped prehistoric...
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Sheriffside
Learning to dig with Rampart Scotland. (Photo: M Cook). Destroyed in antiquity and appearing on no maps, Sheriffside was only rediscovered in 1981. Aerial photography picked up the parch marks of a...
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Egyptology Scotland
A Scottish society promoting the study of Ancient Egypt. Full annual programme of lectures and activities. Lectures open to all, generally held in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Annual membership fee...
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Bullets, ballistas, and Burnswark
A Roman assault on a hillfort in Scotland The south Roman camp at Burnswark. The ancient author Josephus once observed of the Roman military that ‘their training manoeuvres are battles without...
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Current Archaeology 316 – now on sale
The true nature of the events that played out at Burnswark in the 2nd century AD has long excited speculation. Two Roman camps were aggressively positioned to hold a former native hillfort in a...
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Interview: John Reid talks about bullets and Burnswark on BBC Radio 4
Listen to John Reid, author of our cover feature Bullets, ballistas and Burnswark, discuss his research at Burnswark Hill on Radio 4’s Today (2 June 2016). The hill in Dumfriesshire is home to a...
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Current Archaeology 322
Archaeology is alive with uncertainties. Time and again new sites or technologies upend longstanding theories. All this month’s featured sites show the sometimes fractious relationship between fresh...
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Moredun Top 2017
The dun at Moredun Top from the air. (Photo: Ken Ward) Moredun Top dig is back for the third and final year excavating the complex Iron Age hillfort. The dig runs from Tuesday 25 April – Saturday 20...
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Kildavie Excavation 2017
The Field School will consist of 2 weeks excavation at the abandoned settlement of Kildavie, possibly dating back to the Early Medieval period. The settlement was inhabited until the 18th century...
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Swartigill Iron Age Project
Swartigill pot sherd The Swartigill site was identified in a survey carried out in 2004, as some stonework eroding out of the bank of the burn of Swartigill. Initially thought to be a mill serving two...
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Current Archaeology 327 – now on sale
Why were Pictish symbols carved into Trusty’s Hill, far to the south of where they usually occur? Investigation of a hillfort towering over the images reveals that the site developed into a prosperous...
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Rheged rediscovered: uncovering a lost British kingdom in Galloway
Investigations suggest that the violent end of this vitrified hillfort was a fiery spectacle. (Image: GUARD Archaeology Ltd) The Pictish carvings etched near the summit of Trusty’s Hill, a vitrified...
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Discoveries from the deep: sailing aboard the Swan in the 17th century
Surveying the Swan: archaeological techniques under water are the same as on land. (Photo: Colin Martin) In 1653, a small Cromwellian warship was lost off the west coast of Scotland. Excavated between...
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Pictish longhouse unearthed at Burghead Fort?
Photo: University of Aberdeen Burghead Fort, near Lossiemouth in Moray, is thought to have been a significant Pictish seat of power, being the biggest fort of its type in Scotland. However, it was long...
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