Society-Funded Research

The Society promotes the understanding of Scotland’s past by supporting original research through grants and awards.

Seeking the Galloway Nag
Interdisciplinary research into the Galloway Horse (or Nag) in its homeland
Scotland in the Nuclear Age
This grant from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland supported this significant research at the...
Stable isotope analysis of human remains from the Knowe of Rowiegar, Orkney
The Dr Euan MacKie Legacy Fund supported new triple stable isotope analysis of diet at...
Migration, Anomie and the Asylum
A study of institutionalisation among industrial Dundee’s female migrant millworkers. 1841-1891
Sgòr an Eòin
Exploring a remote upland lithic scatter in the Cairngorms.
Scots in 18th Century Rome
Key actors in the cultural, artistic and diplomatic life of the Eternal City.
Glasserton House
Archival research on the houses of the Earls of Galloway.
South Cuidrach
Further work at a Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic site in Skye
The Community of the Twelve Towers of Rule
An archival study into the development and everyday life of a rural Borders community
Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland
Faunal analysis from the Covesea Caves highlight the diversity of the species composition
West Plean Object Review
Reanalysis of objects has offered for the first time a very tentative Roman date for...
Hiberno-Scandinavian strap-fittings of Scotland
A Gunning Jubilee Award is enabling collaborative work on a Scottish corpus of Hiberno-Scandinavian strap-fittings
Friaries in Scotland
Visits supported to produce an up to date gazetteer and background summary regarding Scotland’s medieval...
Excavations in the museum store: Naken chaetrie
Research into Gypsy Traveller objects in the Highland Folk Museum
Male Sexual Violence in Interwar Scotland
The Gunning Jubilee Gift was instrumental in funding data collection at National Records Scotland,

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