Recent Projects

Culdee Archaeology Project 2011-12: Dunkeld Cathedral

The Society’s Research Grant helped to support geophysical survey at Dunkeld Cathedral.

The Galloway Picts Project

The Society grant aided the detailed laser scanning of the inscribed stone with Pictish symbols at the entrance to this site.

Report on Scottish Urn and Burial Newspaper Project 2011-12

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland helped fund transcription of reports and the creation of a simple Access Database

Lub Dubh Aird: a prehistoric landscape

The Society helped fund this survey looking for signs of early humans in Scotland.

Finds in context – investigating the long Iron Age at Clarkly Hill, Moray

The Society helped fund excavations at an Iron Age site in Moray.

Survey and Excavation at Early Pictish Power Centres and Symbol Stones of Aberdeenshire

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland funded a programme of geophysical survey at two symbol stone locations in Aberdeenshire.

Urban Renewal and Child Welfare: Networks of Philanthropy in Late-Victorian and early Twentieth-century Edinburgh

Interim report on research by Dr Elizabeth Darling being funded by the Society

Useful and Social Pots: Residue Analysis of South East Scottish Iron Age pottery

Dingwall Thing Project

The Society grant aided a ground penetrating radar survey of this potentially important Viking site.

Culdee Archaeology Project 2010-11

The Society’s grant supported the continuation of pilot archaeological research at early medieval monasteries in Perth and Kinross

Searching for the Long Iron Age

Excavations at Clarkly Hill, Burghead, Moray 2011 by Dr Fraser Hunter, National Museums Scotland

Geophysical Survey at Cults Loch

For this project the Society's research grant was used to further elements of the landscape study not within the remit of a Historic Scotland programme of work.

Symbol stones in context: Excavations at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire

An undocumented Pictish power centre of the 5th-6th century AD? by Gordon Noble and Meggen Gondek

West Prestonpans Enclosure

A short precis of this project supported by the Society by Murray and Martin Cook

Applecross Broch Community Archaeology Project

Analysis of the 2010 field season results, sponsored by the Society, and compilation of the 2006-2010 excavation data is in progress, here Mary Peteranna gives a very brief report on progress to date.

Useful and Social Pots: Residue Analysis of South East Scottish Iron Age pottery

a brief report on this Society sponsored project by Mhairi Maxwell, University of Bradford

The Environment and Economy of Mesolithic Settlement in Eastern Islay Project (EEMSEIP)

Results of palaeoenvironmental fieldwork at Loch Bharradail, Islay, August 2011, by Karen Wicks and funded by the Society.

‘Scotland and Beyond: Early Medieval Carved Stones' Conference

A report on the successful Society sponsored international conference held in March and April 2011 in Edinburgh.

The Dùn Bhoraraic Project

Society funding enabled the detailed survey and exploratory excavation of an enigmatic 'stone setting' below Dun Bhoraraic broch.

Project Gunzo

The digital documentation of Crossraguel Abbey, Ayrshire, Scotland

Fortingall Monastery, Geophysics Results 2010

A Society grant helped fund geophysical survey and outreach at Fortingall.

Dun Eistean Gunflint Project

In 2009 Torben Bjarke Ballin applied for a grant from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland to cover parts of the costs relating to the Dun Eistean Gunflint Project.

The Howburn Project, Phase 2

Analysis of lithics from the Howburn site, characterising and discussing this exceptional Upper Palaeolithic material from Scotland.

Wounding: From Mayhem to Offences Against the Person

The Society grant aided comparative research on serious non-fatal violence in Scotland, England and Wales between the mid-eighteenth and the late-nineteenth century.

The Brough of Deerness, Orkney

Society funding contributed to fieldwork on this Viking Age and earlier site.

Radiocarbon Dating of a Spearhead from Kinclaven, Perthshire

The Kinclaven iron spearhead is in the collections of Perth Museum and Art Gallery (registration number: 1991.55)

Stone Axes from Orkney: their style and deposition

A grant from the Society aids research into Orcadian stone axes.

Early modern Atlantic pearl trade

A grant from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland enabled a final research trip as a graduate student, expanding the study of the early modern Atlantic pearl trade to include Scotland's pearl fishing industry.

Iron Age Human Remains from Orkney and Shetland

Account of trip to Orkney and Shetland, 2nd-18th May 2009

Dumfries House carpet project

Studying the origins and manufacture of Scotch carpets in the 18thC and 19thC Ms Vanessa Habib FSA Scot

Callum's Hill

More on the Bronze Age Burial From Callum's Hill, Crieff

Holm of Papa Westray North

The Society helped to fund the analysis of fishbone from this well-known Neolithic chambered tomb in Orkney. Jennifer Harland and Rachel Parks present their results from the analysis.

Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot (SERF)

Glasgow University Archaeology Department long-term project to investigate the remarkable landscape at the heart of Scotland at Strathearn

MASS Project

The Moothill and Abbey of Scone Survey (MASS) Project, co-directed by Oliver O'Grady (University of Glasgow) and Peter Yeoman, begun in 2007.

International Medieval Congress Conference Paper

Sarah Elizabeth Thomas, University of Glasgow, presented a paper on bishop Cormac at the Leeds IMC conference in July 2007, funded by the Young Fellows Travel Bursary.

Stone Age hunters at Long Howe

Caroline R Wickham-Jones received funding support from the Society to investigate a site with potential for Mesolithic activity.