News | Posted June 10, 2016
I am very grateful to have been awarded a student bursary from the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (ScARF), to attend the Prehistoric Society’s Europa 2016 ’ Dynamics of Art, design and Vision in Iron Age Europe’ conference, held in Edinburgh in June 2016. I am currently a second year PhD student in Queens University Belfast, examining and analysing the origins …
News | Posted June 3, 2016
The demolition of Victorian villas in the 1970s led to the excavation of the Roman fort at Bearsden, near Glasgow, on the Antonine Wall, and the discovery of a Roman bath-house and latrine. This new publication from the Society, by Professor David Breeze, was launched in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow and is now on sale in our online shop! …
The demolition of Victorian villas in the 1970s led to the excavation of the Roman fort at Bearsden, near Glasgow, on the Antonine Wall, and the discovery of a Roman bath-house and latrine. This new publication from the Society, by Professor David Breeze, was launched in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow and is now on sale in our online shop! …
News | Posted May 23, 2016
I am very grateful to ScARF for supporting my attendance to the Association for Environmental Archaeology conference 2016 in Orkney. The theme of the conference was “Islands: Isolation and connectivity”, which fits perfectly with the research I am currently working on. I am a zooarchaeologist from Iceland, but have worked on animal bones from Iceland, Greenland and Ireland. Having just …
News | Posted May 20, 2016
A grant from the Society enabled the Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society to host a conference on the theme of Gardens and Enclosures. The Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society (LAMPS) is a student-led organisation based at the University of Edinburgh, with the core aim of fostering interdisciplinarity and fellowship among students of the university. This year we have …
News | Posted May 13, 2016
I started my PhD at UCL in October 2015, looking at cetacean (whale, dolphin and porpoise) remains in medieval north-western Europe. The aim of my thesis is to look at all medieval sites in north-western Europe where cetacean remains have been uncovered and see whether it is possible to prove that active whaling was practiced and who had access …
News | Posted April 14, 2016
As a postgraduate student in the final stages of completing my MSc in Archaeological Sciences, the timing could not have better to have be given the opportunity to attend the Association of Environmental Archaeology Conference in Orkney through the ScARF bursary. I am currently preparing to start on my MSc dissertation research, which concerns challenging the notion of a nearly …
News | Posted April 11, 2016
I began my PhD evaluating the geoarchaeology of burnt mound sites across north-western Europe in September 2015, based at the University of Edinburgh. Essentially this project aims to evaluate the sediments and microstratigraphic profile of burnt mound deposits under the microscope, using a combination of thin section micromorphology and phytolith analysis. As a study with a broad geographical scope across …
News | Posted April 5, 2016
The Society Council Trustees have awarded £11,667 to ten projects examining a wide range of topics from geophysical survey at Duntocher Roman fort to an environmental history of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. This year there were twenty six applications for funding totalling £46,484, representing an increase of 57% in number of applications and £21,415 more than last year, and some …
News | Posted March 25, 2016
Applications have now closed The Nordic Research Network conference 2016 ‘Bridges Between: Norse and Insular Worlds’ will take place on May the 4th 2016 in Glasgow. The Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (ScARF) is offering five student bursaries to support attendance at the conference. These bursaries are designed to allow students to hear about current research in Norse and Medieval archaeology and participate in …
News | Posted March 22, 2016
New Perspectives on the ‘auld alliance’: Scotland, France and their neighbours in the early modern era This conference will explore the multifaceted relations between Scotland and France in the period c.1450-1700. Although the main focus of the conference is the auld alliance between France and Scotland, papers addressing this relationship in the broader British Isles or European context, and papers …
