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Early Neolithic Timber Halls in Scotland: Dr Brian Hope-Taylor, Yeavering, Doon Hill, Balbridie and fifty years of confusion or worse

School 1 St Salvators Quadrangle, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

PROFESSOR IAN RALSTON, Abercromby Professor of Archaeology, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.   In July 1959, while Brian Hope-Taylor, Ministry of Works digger and soon-to-be Assistant Continue reading "https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/gridd"

Aerial photography in Scotland

School 1 St Salvators Quadrangle, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

RACHEL NORDSTROM, Historic Environment Scotland

Unearthing the Past: Insights from the 2023 Vindolanda Excavation Season

School 1 St Salvators Quadrangle, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

PENNY TRICHLER, Vindolanda Trust looks back at the 2023 season of digging at Roman Vindolanda Fort on Hadrian’s Wall. She explores the archaeological progress and remarkable discoveries, within the setting of Vindolanda’s complex history and takes a closer look at the plans for upcoming excavation and research projects at the Vindolanda Trust.

Spring Outing

House of Dun, Montrose Museum and archaeology along the way. Date and details to be confirmed.

History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts

School 1 St Salvators Quadrangle, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

Our knowledge of the period of European history conventionally called the Middle Ages rests, in a large part, on the writings that survive from that time, all of them manuscript. In this talk PROFESSOR ROBERT BARTLETT, Emeritus, University of St Andrews, explores cases in which large numbers of such manuscripts were destroyed in a day, Continue reading "https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/gridd"

The Persian Parthenon

School 1 St Salvators Quadrangle, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

PROFESSOR TOM HARRISON, British Museum, looks again at the old thesis that the iconography of the Parthenon took inspiration from the art of Persepolis. He does so by taking a wider view of the role of Persia as a model for Athenian imperialism. By examining the evidence for other Persian architectural and artistic influence on Continue reading "https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/gridd"