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Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19

The Trustees’ Annual Report includes the full Accounts for the period 1 June 2018 to 31 May 2019

The Trustees’ Annual Report includes the full Accounts for the period 1 June 2018 to 31 May 2019

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News  |  Posted September 9, 2019

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland launches a free Digital Books platform

We’ve launched a new online platform to make peer-reviewed academic books about Scottish archaeology and history freely available. The first two titles available through Open Access are Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness (Carver et al., 2016) and The Scottish Antiquarian Tradition (Bell, 1981). Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness presents recent archaeological discoveries in one of the key centres of the Pictish nation, and …

Publications

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland launches a free Digital Books platform

We’ve launched a new online platform to make peer-reviewed academic books about Scottish archaeology and history freely available. The first two titles available through Open Access are Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness (Carver et al., 2016) and The Scottish Antiquarian Tradition (Bell, 1981). Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness presents recent archaeological discoveries in one of the key centres of the Pictish nation, and …

Society-funded Research

Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland

Faunal analysis from the Covesea Caves highlight the diversity of the species composition

Faunal analysis from the Covesea Caves highlight the diversity of the species composition

A small square fragment of human skull

Society-funded Research

West Plean Object Review

Reanalysis of objects has offered for the first time a very tentative Roman date for the West Plean Homestead

Reanalysis of objects has offered for the first time a very tentative Roman date for the West Plean Homestead

Drawings of objects from West Plean including sandstone handled lamp

Society-funded Research

Hiberno-Scandinavian strap-fittings of Scotland

A Gunning Jubilee Award is enabling collaborative work on a Scottish corpus of Hiberno-Scandinavian strap-fittings

A Gunning Jubilee Award is enabling collaborative work on a Scottish corpus of Hiberno-Scandinavian strap-fittings

Society-funded Research

Friaries in Scotland

Visits supported to produce an up to date gazetteer and background summary regarding Scotland’s medieval friaries

Visits supported to produce an up to date gazetteer and background summary regarding Scotland’s medieval friaries

Mural tomb at Luffness Carmelite friary by Aberlady

Society-funded Research

Male Sexual Violence in Interwar Scotland

The Gunning Jubilee Gift was instrumental in funding data collection at National Records Scotland,

The Gunning Jubilee Gift was instrumental in funding data collection at National Records Scotland,