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Archaeological Research in Progress 2018

8th May 2018 | Categories: Conference, Publications

Archaeological Research in Progress 2018 is taking place on Saturday 26 May at the Engine Shed in Stirling.

This annual national conference gives you the opportunity to hear about the most recent archaeological projects across Scotland, this year particularly focusing on research in Stirlingshire, Perthshire, Kinross, Fife, and Argyll.

To get you in the mood, we have rounded up some recent books and articles from our publications’ archive which showcase high-quality archaeological research in Scotland.

Roger Mercer, Native and Roman on the Northern Frontier, Edinburgh, 2018

Colin J M Martin, A Cromwellian Warship wrecked off Duart Castle, Mull, Scotland, in 1653, Edinburgh, 2017

Michael Nevell, The Birth of Industrial Glasgow: The Archaeology of the M74, Edinburgh, 2016

Anne Crone and Erlend Hindmarch, with Alex Woolf, Living and Dying at Auldhame, Edinburgh, 2016

Clarke, D, Sheridan, A, Shepherd, A, Sharples, N, Armour-Chelu, M, Hamlet, L, Bronk Ramsey, C, Dunbar, E, Reimer, P, Marshall, P and Whittle, A 2017 ‘The end of the world, or just “goodbye to all that”? Contextualising the red deer heap from Links of Noltland, Westray, within late 3rd-millennium cal BC Orkney’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 146: 57-89. https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.146.1226

Noble, G, Turner, J, Hamilton, D, Hastie, L, Knecht, R, Stirling, L, Sveinbjarnarson, O, Upex, B and Milek, K 2017 ‘Early medieval shellfish gathering at the Sands of Forvie, Aberdeenshire: feast or famine?’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 146: 121-52. https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.146.1214

Geddes, J, Murray, H K and Murray, J C 2015 ‘Tullich, Aberdeenshire: a reappraisal of an early ecclesiastical site and its carved stones in the light of recent excavations’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 145: 229-81.

Lelong, O 2014 ‘Wrappings of power: a woman’s burial in cattle hide at Langwell Farm, Strath Oykel’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 144: 65-131.

Jones, E, Sheridan, J A & Franklin, J 2018 ‘Neolithic and Bronze Age Occupation at Meadowend Farm, Clackmannanshire: Pots, Pits and Roundhouses’, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 77. https://doi.org/10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2018.77

Lelong, O 2018 ‘Fluid identities, shifting sands: Early Bronze Age burials at Cnip Headland, Isle of Lewis’, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 75. https://doi.org/10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2018.75

Ellis, C 2017 ‘Monks, Priests and Farmers: A Community Research Excavation at Baliscate, Isle of Mull’, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 68. http://doi.org/10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2017.68

Engl, R 2017 ‘Where There’s Muck There’s Money: The Excavation of Medieval and Post-Medieval Middens and Associated Tenement at Advocate’s Close, Edinburgh’, Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 67. https://doi.org/10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2017.67


The Archaeological Research in Progress Conference is supported by Historic Environment Scotland, and is delivered in partnership with Archaeology Scotland and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. For details on how you can book your ticket, please visit the event page: https://www.socantscot.org/event/archaeological-research-in-progress-2018/


 

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