News  |  Posted August 4, 2025

Invitation to Annual Fellows Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia

This October sees the return of an annual dinner meeting in the USA for both Fellows and friends who are interested in the Society, organised by longtime Fellow, Hope Vere Anderson. The dinner meeting has been timed to occur during the Stone Mountain Highland Games (17 – 19 October) in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Date: Saturday 18 October 2025 Arrival …

News  |  Posted June 2, 2025

Booking Now Open for Fellows Summer Excursion

We are delighted to open bookings for our annual Summer Excursion from Tuesday 9 – Wednesday 10 September 2025 to Kilmartin Glen in Argyll, one of Scotland’s richest prehistoric landscapes. This trip will give Fellows the opportunity to get to know one another and will offer a fascinating insight into the lives of people who inhabited this area over the last …

News  |  Posted March 24, 2025

Joint Lecture with Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland

We are delighted to invite you to the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s inaugural joint lecture, The Neolithic Axe Quarries at the Eagle’s Nest, Lambay and North Roe, Shetland: A Comparative Perspective, by Emeritus Professor Gabriel Cooney MRIA FSA FSAScot of University College Dublin (UCD) taking place at Society House, 63 Merrion …

News  |  Posted December 9, 2021

Society Events Move Online Again

Following recent new Scottish Government guidance emphasising working from home where possible, the Society has decided to move its lectures and other events back to being fully online. We are doing this to help protect our staff and those others with whom we work to host in-person hybrid events at this time, and we hope you understand. Those who have booked …

News  |  Posted December 14, 2020

Tune in to the Rhind Lectures 2020

The Rhind Lectures 2020 have begun, with the first lecture now available to watch free on our YouTube channel. This year, the series of six lectures by Dr Alison Sheridan will offer an in-depth assessment of the current state of our knowledge about the period c.4000-2500 BC, when new ways of living and of making sense of the world appeared and developed in Neolithic Scotland. …

News  |  Posted November 10, 2019

Last minute changes to our lectures this week

Unfortunately Dr Batey is unable to deliver her lectures on Monday and Tuesday evenings.  While we have had to cancel our Shetland event on Tuesday, the Monday evening event will be going ahead as usual, with a changed line-up of speakers.  Several early career researchers have very generously stepped in at late notice to give us a flavour of current …

News  |  Posted April 24, 2019

Rhind Lecture Collection 2019

The prestigious annual Rhind lectures will take place from 10 May to 12 May 2019. This year, Professor David J Breeze HonFSA Scot will be lecturing on: ‘Hadrian’s Wall: A Study in Archaeological Exploration and Interpretation’. Hadrian’s Wall was built to defend the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire in AD 122, and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site …

News  |  Posted October 22, 2018

Open Access Week and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Open Access Week, now in its tenth year, is taking place this year from 22nd-28th October. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland fully supports Open Access publication. This is because we want our authors’ research to reach as wide an audience as possible, and our readers to have free access to as much of our books and journals content as …

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Open Access Week and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Open Access Week, now in its tenth year, is taking place this year from 22nd-28th October. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland fully supports Open Access publication. This is because we want our authors’ research to reach as wide an audience as possible, and our readers to have free access to as much of our books and journals content as …

News  |  Posted September 5, 2018

Event Programme 2018-2019

Our full Programme for the year is now available and bookings are open online https://www.socantscot.org/events/.  Download the leaflet here.

News  |  Posted August 10, 2018

Society books for sale at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

A selection of Society publications will again be available at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. If you are in Edinburgh this month, do drop by the festival bookshop where you can browse our latest publication, Native and Roman on the Northern Frontier, as well as some of our best-selling backlist titles, covering a wide range of Scottish heritage. The festival …

Publications

Society books for sale at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

A selection of Society publications will again be available at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. If you are in Edinburgh this month, do drop by the festival bookshop where you can browse our latest publication, Native and Roman on the Northern Frontier, as well as some of our best-selling backlist titles, covering a wide range of Scottish heritage. The festival …