News  |  Posted February 19, 2018

SAIR user feedback survey

Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports (SAIR) is an Open Access publication which was established by a consortium comprising the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Historic Scotland, and the Council for British Archaeology. Its purpose was to publish freely accessible and fully peer reviewed information more suited to an electronic format than a traditional print journal. The Council for British Archaeology hosted …

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SAIR user feedback survey

Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports (SAIR) is an Open Access publication which was established by a consortium comprising the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Historic Scotland, and the Council for British Archaeology. Its purpose was to publish freely accessible and fully peer reviewed information more suited to an electronic format than a traditional print journal. The Council for British Archaeology hosted …

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News  |  Posted February 6, 2018

Native and Roman on the Northern Frontier – available to pre-order

  The Society is pleased to announce that our next book, Native and Roman on the Northern Frontier, will publish in March 2018. This new publication, by Roger Mercer FSA Scot, presents the definitive report of a programme of excavation and survey at two sites south of Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire, which have wide-ranging implications for the study of the Iron Age …

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Native and Roman on the Northern Frontier – available to pre-order

  The Society is pleased to announce that our next book, Native and Roman on the Northern Frontier, will publish in March 2018. This new publication, by Roger Mercer FSA Scot, presents the definitive report of a programme of excavation and survey at two sites south of Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire, which have wide-ranging implications for the study of the Iron Age …

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News  |  Posted June 26, 2017

Just published: three new SAIR papers

The Society is pleased to announce the publication of three new Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, available now at the Archaeology Data Service. The latest papers to be added to our Open Access collection of significant excavation reports and large-scale surveys present research from the site of a medieval farmstead discovered in Ayrshire; an area in the Highlands which saw settlement …

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Just published: three new SAIR papers

The Society is pleased to announce the publication of three new Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, available now at the Archaeology Data Service. The latest papers to be added to our Open Access collection of significant excavation reports and large-scale surveys present research from the site of a medieval farmstead discovered in Ayrshire; an area in the Highlands which saw settlement …

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News  |  Posted August 1, 2016

ScARF Student Bursary Report: 14C and Archaeology report #5

After finishing a Master at the University of Granada (Spain), I started a PhD at the same university, focused on the use of radiocarbon dating in Archaeology. In particular, we decided to undertake a radiocarbon dating program to explore the chronology and temporality of the megalithic phenomenon in South-eastern Iberia. Despite the extremely rich megalithic phenomenon in this area, with …

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ScARF Student Bursary Report: 14C and Archaeology report #3

I am really grateful to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and to the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework for supporting my participation in the 8thInternational Symposium on 14C & Archaeology in Edinburgh. Particularly, I carried out a conference track under the title “Tell me when: The chronology of the Neolithic necropolis “Bòbila Madurell-Can Gambús” in the NE of the Iberian …

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News  |  Posted June 24, 2016

ScARF Student Bursary Report: 19th Iron Age Research Student Symposium (IARSS)

Iron Age Iron Object Depositions in Northern England, Scotland, and Wales The Iron Age Research Student Symposium for 2016 was an excellent conference with representatives from across the United Kingdom and much further afield. The Prehistoric Society and the Prehistoric Finds Group kindly sponsored meals and the wine social on the first night of the conference. The wine reception was …

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News  |  Posted June 10, 2016

ScARF Student Bursary Report: Prehistoric Society Europa conference

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 …

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News  |  Posted April 11, 2016

ScARF Student Bursary Report: Association of Environmental Archaeologists #1

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 …

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