Traces of Stone Age feasts, a Roman battle in the hills of southern Scotland, and an amulet once thought to be imbued with magical powers have been revealed among the most tantalising archaeological ...

Evidence of feasting in the Hebrides 5,000 years ago and the discovery of a lost medieval settlement in the Borders have been ...

A metal detectorist uncovered Scotland’s earliest known coin, shedding light on 12th-century minting during King David I’s ...

Dig It!, a hub for Scottish archaeology coordinated by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, has compiled their annual list ...

Archaeologists have discovered the 3,300-year-old cremated remains of at least eight people who were buried in five urns in Scotland. While it's unknown how they died, it was likely during some sort ...

The National Trust for Scotland commissioned Glasgow-based GeoGeo to carry out a drone survey of the inner Hebridean islands of Canna and Sanday in November 2018. Using an ultra-high-definition camera ...

INVERNESS, SCOTLAND—BBC News reports that traces of postholes from 16 prehistoric roundhouses and a palisade were uncovered during an investigation conducted ahead of construction of a new prison in ...

An archaeology student volunteering at a Fife dig has uncovered what experts believe may be a rare carving of a Pictish face. Jodie Allan, a third-year archaeology student at the University of ...

BOTHWELL, SCOTLAND—The Scotsman reports that traces of four buildings dated from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries were uncovered during roadwork in southern Scotland. The buildings were ...

Scotland now has its first curator of osteoarchaeology through a new project aiming to enhance the care of and research into ...

Archaeologists in Scotland were disappointed to discover a stone circle they believed was centuries old only dates back to the 1990s. Researchers descended on the monument in Leochel-Cushnie, ...

Kathleen Jamie, a poet and nonfiction writer from Scotland, tells readers early on in “Surfacing” that she has long enjoyed a fascination with archaeology and cultural histories. She was especially ...