News  |  Posted June 6, 2025

Archaeological Research in Progress Recordings Now Available

In May we hosted Archaeological Research in Progress 2025, the national conference presenting recent and ongoing archaeological projects across Scotland. Organised in alternate years by the Society and Archaeology Scotland, this year’s programme featured talks on the Ness of Brodgar, a Bronze Age hoard from the Highlands, Perth’s lost priory and more. Catch up with all the talks, and over 300 other recordings, …

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News  |  Posted April 22, 2025

Guest Blog – Translating the Past: History & its Images in Late-Medieval Scotland 

‘For when one sees a story illustrated whether of Troy or of something else, he sees the actions of the worthy men that lived in those times, just as though they were present.‘ Richard de Fournival, Le Bestiare d’amours.

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News  |  Posted April 1, 2025

Tickets for Archaeological Research in Progress 2025 On Sale Now!

The Archaeological Research in Progress (ARP) conference is a one-day hybrid event showcasing new research findings and best practice in archaeology covering all periods from across Scotland. Since it began in 2005, the annual conference has been organised in alternate years by Archaeology Scotland and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. This year, ARP will be coordinated by the Society …

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News  |  Posted March 26, 2025

Save the Date: Archaeological Research in Progress Conference 2025

The Archaeological Research in Progress (ARP) conference is a one-day hybrid event showcasing new research findings and best practice in archaeology covering all periods from across Scotland. Since it began in 2005, the annual conference has been organised in alternate years by Archaeology Scotland and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. This year, ARP will be coordinated by the Society …

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News  |  Posted March 12, 2025

We’re Hiring! Finding Futures for Scotland’s Churches: Research Officer

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland are looking to hire a new member of staff to help co-ordinate and deliver the Finding Futures for Scotland’s Churches Project.   Working closely with Scotland’s Churches Trust, this role will collate country-wide information on both heritage and community value of Scotland’s churches. This will include collating existing information and where knowledge gaps are identified, …

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Society Funds Underwater Excavation of Medieval Crannog and More With Latest Grants

Funded by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the excavation by volunteers from the North of Scotland Archaeological Society (NOSAS) and the Nautical Archaeology Society will take place at Loch Achilty about 20 miles north-west of Inverness in September 2025. Crannogs are dwellings found on artificial islands over water and were often composed of brush, stone or timber mounds. They …

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News  |  Posted March 7, 2025

ScARF Rock Art Workshops

During the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, people carved and decorated thousands of natural outcrops and boulders across Scotland, like at Achnabreck in Kilmartin Glen, Argyll. Want to explore some of these sites and discuss the future of rock art research in Scottish archaeology? The Society’s Scottish Archaeological Research (ScARF) project is running a series of free workshops which are …

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News  |  Posted January 22, 2025

Archaeological Research in Progress Conference 2025

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is delighted to be hosting the 2025 Archaeological Research in Progress (ARP) conference.  The Conference   The ARP conference is a one-day hybrid event showcasing new research findings and best practice in archaeology covering all periods from across Scotland. It will be held at Augustine United Church – an accessible, well-equipped venue in central Edinburgh …

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News  |  Posted December 2, 2024

New Society Grant Funds Archaeologists to Investigate Scotland’s Earliest Tombs with Local Communities  

A major new project will investigate Scotland’s Early Neolithic megalithic chambered and passage tombs and aim to answer key questions about when they were built and who built them. Thanks to a large bequest left to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by the late Audrey Henshall OBE HonFSAScot, £50,000 has been awarded to Archaeology Scotland for a new project …

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News  |  Posted October 21, 2024

Guest Blog – The Wartime Orkney Trail Leaflets: The Archaeology of Recent Conflict

War, and the threat of war, has profoundly affected the physical and social landscape of the Orkney Islands.

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