Steatite Rocks: vessels, pioneers, and trade in the Norse North Atlantic
Online via ZoomManda Forster, DigVentures
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The Galloway Hoard: new discoveries
Online via ZoomDr Martin Goldberg, Principal Curator, National Museums Scotland
The Mitford Lecture: Rome’s Eastern Frontier
All Saints Church Hall North Castle Street, St Andrews, Fife, United KingdomTim Bruce Mitford
The Western Wadis of the Theban Necropolis
School 1 St Salvators Quadrangle, St Andrews, Fife, United KingdomDr Piers Litherland
Unlocking the Past with Geophysics
School 1 St Salvators Quadrangle, St Andrews, Fife, United KingdomProfessor Richard Bates
Coring Early Rome: geoarchaeological investigations into the origins of the Eternal City
School 1 St Salvators Quadrangle, St Andrews, Fife, United KingdomDr Andrea Brock
In Search of Medieval Religious Women: From Text to Teeth
School 1 St Salvators Quadrangle, St Andrews, Fife, United KingdomProfessor Alison Beach, University of St Andrews presents new and exciting research on how the analysis of dental calculus from the teeth of medieval religious women has revealed their work as scribes and illuminators of medieval manuscripts. The collaboration of scientists and archaeologists is helping to tell a fuller story of life in medieval women’s Continue reading "https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/gridd"
The precise power of the rings: Dendrochronological insights into the last millennium in Scotland
Online via TeamsDr Coralie Mills, A shared talk with the University of St Andrew's Institute for Scottish Historical Research. Dr Coralie Mills will present results from the Southeast Scotland Oak Dendrochronology project which have much to excite the archaeologist and historian. Of particular interest are timber sourcing, which reveals so much more about Scotland's past including her Continue reading "https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/gridd"
Behind the scenes at Wardlaw Museum
Wardlaw Museum 7 The Scores, St Andrews, Fife, United KingdomA special behind the scenes visit to the Wardlaw Museum with the St Andrews University Museums team
Excavation of a Neolithic tomb at Tresness, Sanday, Orkney
School 1 St Salvators Quadrangle, St Andrews, Fife, United KingdomTHIS TALK IS CANCELLED FOR MARCH 9 AND WILL BE RE-ARRANGED We are delighted to welcome Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark (National Museums Scotland) who will be telling us about recent excavations of an eroding Neolithic tomb on the island of Sanday, Orkney. The excavations have revealed an exceptional sequence of deposits within the chamber that shed Continue reading "https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/gridd"
Seggie Farm, Guardbridge: Multiperiod settlement within the shadow of a multivallate fort
School 1 St Salvators Quadrangle, St Andrews, Fife, United KingdomMaureen Kilpatrick, GUARD Archaeology In our final lecture of the programme, Dr. Maureen Kilpatrick of Guard Archaeology will tell us about the amazing archaeological finds in advance of the Eden Woods housing development in Guardbridge. Not to be missed for all those who live in the area. Between 2019 and 2021 GUARD Archaeology excavated an Continue reading "https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/gridd"
Spring excursion to explore the archaeology of the Antonine Wall
Geoff Bailey, former Keeper, Falkirk Museums and a leading authority on the archaeology of the Antonine Wall will be taking us on an insider tour of Scotland's biggest building project. We will visit Rough Castle Fort, the Antonine Wall exhibition at Callendar House and Kinneil fortlet and Museum. This is an all day excursion departing Continue reading "https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/gridd"