The Chalmers-Jervise Prize of £500 was originally funded through a bequest from Mr Andrew Jervise FSAScot  (1820–1878), wherein he stipulated the award be called a “Chalmers-Jervise Bequest”. The award’s name could be in reference to his mother, Jean Chalmers’, maiden name or possibly to one of his patrons, Mr Chalmers of Aldbar.  

What the Award Recognises

The RBK Stevenson Award is offered annually in recognition of a paper published in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland  (PSAS) or as a Scottish Archaeological Internet Report (SAIR) that covers any subject relating to the archaeological research of Scotland before the present day.  

Amount

£500 

Deadlines

The annual deadline for submission to the Proceedings  is  30 November  each year. SAIR submissions are open year-round.  

Decisions

All papers published in  PSAS  or as a SAIR  which meet the criteria are considered for the award by the Editorial Advisory Board and the Grants and Awards Committee.  

Winners are announced at the Society’s Annual General Meeting held the following November. 

How to Apply 

To find out how to submit a paper for publication to the Society, please visit our Publish in PSAS webpage. Additional information can be requested from Kate Bailey, Editorial Manager, at editor@socantscot.org. 

Legacies

By leaving a gift in your will to the Society you can help provide support for new research, high-quality publications and engaging outreach and public events. The gift will cost nothing in your lifetime but will make a lasting contribution to the future study of Scotland’s past. Please visit our Legacies page to find out more. 

Previous Winners

2024 Karen Hardy and Torben Ballin South Cuidrach: A new Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic site on the Isle of Skye, western Scotland (PSAS 153)

2021 Tobias Mörtz, Matthew G Knight, Trevor Cowie and Jane Flint Peelhill Farm: a possible Late Bronze Age weapon sacrifice in Lanarkshire (PSAS 150)

2000 Ian Armit The abandonment of souterrains: evolution, catastrophe or dislocation? (PSAS 129)

1997 Kenneth Veitch The Columban church in northern Britain, 664–717: a re-assessment (PSAS 127)

1992 Ian Smith Sprouston, Roxburghshire: an early Anglian centre of the eastern Tweed Basin (PSAS 121)

1988 Patrick Topping Typology and chronology in the later prehistoric pottery assemblages of the Western Isles (PSAS 117)

1985 Lesley Macinnes Brochs and the Roman occupation of lowland Scotland (PSAS 114)

1975 James Graham-Campbell The Viking-age silver and gold hoards of Scandinavian character from Scotland (PSAS 107)

1965 Iain Walker The counties of Nairnshire, Moray and Banffshire in the Bronze Age, part 1 (PSAS 98)

1964 Euan MacKie A Dwelling Site of the Earlier Iron Age at Balevullin, Tiree, excavated in 1912 by A Henderson Bishop (PSAS 96)

1959 John Coles Scottish Swan’s-Neck Sunflower Pins (PSAS 92)

1933 Robert Kinghorn Unrecorded Berwickshire antiquities (PSAS 69)

1931 J D Lyford-Pike The cup-marked stones of North Uist and Benbecula (PSAS 75)

1930 W W T Hannah The Romanno terraces: their origin and purpose (PSAS 65)

1929 Duncan Colville Notes on the standing stones of Kintyre (PSAS 64)

1923 R R Boog Watson The Deuchny Hill Fort (PSAS 57)

1911 Elizabeth Stout Some Shetland brochs and standing stones (PSAS 46)