The Society promotes the understanding of Scotland’s past by supporting original research through grants and awards, innovative projects like ScARF and Dig It! and high-quality publications.
Faunal analysis from the Covesea Caves highlight the diversity of the species composition
Young and Student Fellow Grant supported a presentation at an international conference
Visits supported to produce an up to date gazetteer and background summary regarding Scotland’s medieval friaries
Research into civic sponsorship of festival football in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland.
Analysis of Scottish lithic artefacts confirms they are Late Upper Palaeolithic in date
Society funded excavations were carried out on a chambered cairn on Islay
A Society award allowed the completion of a project researching a sword discovered at Annan Museum.
Excavation and archival research have uncovered the remains of milling infrastructure at Milngavie
Reanalysis of objects has offered for the first time a very tentative Roman date for the West Plean Homestead
Research into Gypsy Traveller objects in the Highland Folk Museum
A Gunning Jubilee Gift travel-grant to visit the Regional Museum of Lapland
A Gunning Jubilee Award is enabling collaborative work on a Scottish corpus of Hiberno-Scandinavian strap-fittings
Archival work funded by the Gunning Jubilee Gift grant uncovers the complexities of parish disputes in seventeenth-century Scotland
Research on a museum collection has confirmed it is importance for lithic studies
The Gunning Jubilee Gift was instrumental in funding data collection at National Records Scotland,
Research into judicial cases in the early 20th century reveals attitudes to sexual crimes.
Research funded by the Society provided vital insights into the early life of this Soviet agent.
A grant enabled the geophysical survey of Roman forts on the Antonine Wall
Radiocarbon dating has clarified the structure and dating of this important early stringed instrument.
Supporting research investigating links between Scotland and the Burgundian Netherlands
Excavations on Lismore are exploring the nave of the important church there.
Research into the collections at Highland Folk Museum and Mitchell Library
Reconstruction images of excavated Atlantic roundhouses funded by the Society
The Society grant-aided a small excavation into a suspected crannog
Society funding helped excavate a rich Iron Age site in Moray.
A Gunning Jubilee Gift enabled an early career researcher to study Pictish sculpture at Groam House Museum and Nigg Old Church
The first archaeological excavations on Staffa were funded by the Society
The Society helped transform an early Bronze Age burial into one of the best researched of its kind.
Scientific analysis of window glass fragments interrogates their composition and manufacture.
The Society funded the identification of whale bone from Cladh Hallan, South Uist.
Investigating 19th century Scottish industry abroad and within a European context using a Society grant
A Society grant funded thin-section analysis of deposits excavated at the Ness of Brodgar.
Research into the archives of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Public Records Office
A Society grant enabled the geophysical survey of a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall.
A grant from the Society enabled the gathering of information from two important organisations.
The Society’s grant contributed to macrofossil analysis and radiocarbon dating costs for the project.
Grant from the Society is helping to uncover a Late Bronze Age coastal mortuary complex along the Moray coast.
Visit to the Stiftsbibliothek was only possible thanks to a grant from the Society
The Society helped fund transcription of reports and the creation of a database
Micromorphology funded by the Society to investigate spatial differences in activities across the Ness of Brodgar
Grant support from the Society demonstrated the importance of the local HER
Interim report on research by Dr Elizabeth Darling funded by the Society
The Society grant aided the detailed laser scanning of the Pictish symbol stone
A Society grant helped to support geophysical survey at Dunkeld Cathedral
The Gunning Jubilee Gift enabled the study of the East India Company’s manuscripts
The Society funded geophysical survey at two Pictish symbol stones
The Society grant covered the laboratory costs for analysing sherds of Iron Age pottery
The Society grant aided a ground penetrating radar survey of this potentially important Viking site
The Society helped fund excavations at an Iron Age site in Moray
The Society’s grant contributed to radiocarbon dating costs for the project
The Society helped fund this survey looking for signs of early humans in Scotland.
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