The team of researchers have made several trips to the isolated cave to study the ancient, gruesome traditions that once took ...

Cast far to Britain's north, the discovery dates back a staggering 5,000 years and offers vital clues about the island's ...

A unique ‘Celtic’ bangle, a Pictish spearbutt and a rare shipwreck are among the most ground-breaking finds of 2024 as archaeological discoveries continue to enrich Scotland’s great history.

Colin Renfrew played a key part in transforming archaeology into a problem-oriented, theoretically explicit and ...

Archaeology Scotland The monuments are found in Argyll and Bute, Western Isles and Highlands. There are also sites in Ireland and Wales, and similar types in north-west France. In Scotland ...

Senior Curator of Prehistory at National Museums Scotland. The hoard contains many unique artifacts, some of which have "no archaeological parallel anywhere in western Europe," and whose functions ...

According to Andrew Jepson of Archaeology Scotland, however, parts of the camp that hadn’t been seen in many years became evident during summer 2018’s heat wave. “We clearly knew that the ...

Although generally aware of their Scottish ancestry, many of these descendants knew little of what their seventeenth-century forebears had gone through—until an archaeological excavation ...

It has been created by Forestry and Land Scotland, formerly Forestry Commission Scotland, and Archaeology Scotland. The artists were guided by European Neolithic artefacts for their drawings.

Gathering all this information allows a better understanding of the history and culture of the north east as well as the whole of Scotland through the ages. Our Highway through history booklet gives a ...