University of St. Andrews Archaeological Society

07/05/2026

Reminder - on Thursday, 14th May at 18:00 at SCHOOL 1, St Salvator's Quad, North Street, St Andrews, Fife.

TOM ADDYMAN, ADDYMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, SIMPSON & BROWN ARCHITECTS

Clestrain Hall was built in the 1760s and was the childhood home of arctic explorer John Rae. It is an exceptional survival of Georgian architecture and is currently being restored.

For more information see...
https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-hall-of-clestrain-orkney/


Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee (TAFAC)
St Andrews Museum@
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
St Andrews School of History
The Pictish Arts Society
Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk
Save Wemyss Ancient Caves Society (S.W.A.C.S.)

02/04/2026

Reminder - on Thursday, 9th April at 18:00 at SCHOOL 1, St Salvator's Quad, North Street, St Andrews, Fife.

PROFESSOR TOM DAWSON, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS

Exactly two hundred years ago, William Daniell published the final part of his eight-volume ‘Voyage Round Great Britain’. He’d started his journey in 1813, and over the course of ten years, created 308 drawings as he travelled the entire coast, more than half of his hand-coloured engravings were of Scotland. This talk will show how Daniell’s work remains relevant, helping us understand changes to coastal lifestyles and the environment over two centuries.

For more information see...
https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/voyage-round-great-britain-life-at-the-coast-200-years-ago/


Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee (TAFAC)
St Andrews Museum
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
St Andrews School of History
The Pictish Arts Society
Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk
Save Wemyss Ancient Caves Society (S.W.A.C.S.)
FFAN -Fife Field walking and Archaeology Network

05/03/2026

Reminder - on Thursday, 12th March at 18:00 at SCHOOL 1, St Salvator's Quad, North Street, St Andrews, Fife.

DR SOPHIA ADAMS, British Museum, tells the story of a remarkable find. In December 2021 what at first appeared to be a small cluster of items turned out to be one of the largest hoards of Iron Age objects ever uncovered in Britain and Ireland.

For more information see...
https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/exceptional-massive-significant-mysterious-close-up-on-the-melsonby-iron-age-hoard/


Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee (TAFAC)
St Andrews Museum
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
St Andrews School of History
The Pictish Arts Society
Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk
Save Wemyss Ancient Caves Society (S.W.A.C.S.)

05/02/2026

Reminder - on Thursday, 12th February at 18:00 at SCHOOL 1, St Salvator's Quad, North Street, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom.

DR ANNE CRONE, AOC Archaeology, will be talking about how long-running excavations at Black Loch of Myrton in Dumfries and Galloway have transformed our understanding of Iron Age life. For more information see...
https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/rising-damp-the-life-and-times-of-black-loch-of-myrton-an-iron-age-wetland-settlement-in-sw-scotland/


Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee (TAFAC)
St Andrews Museum
School of Classics, University of St Andrews

St Andrews School of History
The Pictish Arts Society
Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk
Save Wemyss Ancient Caves Society (S.W.A.C.S.)

04/12/2025

Reminder - on Thursday, 11th December at 18:00 at SCHOOL 1, St Salvator's Quad, North Street, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom.

DR RUSSELL Ó RÍAGÁIN, University of St Andrews on ‘Settlement and society in Argyll and the southern Hebrides, circa 800BC to circa AD1300’

For more information see...
https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/settlement-and-society-in-argyll-and-the-southern-hebrides-circa-800bc-to-circa-ad1300/


Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee (TAFAC)
St Andrews Museum
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
St Andrews School of History
The Pictish Arts Society
Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk
Save Wemyss Ancient Caves Society (S.W.A.C.S.)

06/11/2025

Reminder - on Thursday, 13th October at 18:00 at SCHOOL 6 School VI, St Salvator's Quad, North Street, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom.

ANTOINE RUCHONNET of Addyman Archaeology on ‘The Backside of the Bones: an analytical study of Shang Dynasty oracle bones’.

For more information see...
https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-backside-of-the-bones-an-analytical-study-of-shang-dynasty-oracle-bones/


Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee (TAFAC)
St Andrews Museum
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
St Andrews School of History
The Pictish Arts Society
Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk
Save Wemyss Ancient Caves Society (S.W.A.C.S.)

10/10/2025

Great turnout for the Mitford Lecture last night, we’d like to thank our speaker Nick Card for coming down to give us such a fantastic talk about such an exceptional site!

08/10/2025

Reminder tomorrow, Thursday, 9th October, at 18:00 for 18:30 at Lower Parliament Hall,66 South Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9QW…
Nick Card, director of the excavations: Ness of Brodgar: 1000 years in the making – 20 years of discovery.

For more information see...
https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ness-of-brodgar-1000-years-in-the-making-20-years-of-discovery/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNLir1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETB6VGhiYmo4SVM2UHNiN0VXAR68wlMDUxdyEnPOG6M2lptRCvurtDOPZ7Ikc3M_pkxngokqcrwlZsQCoo37fg_aem_Iyc5dOM_LhWigGx2oPDCCg


Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee (TAFAC)
St Andrews Museum
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
St Andrews School of History
The Pictish Arts Society
Friends of the Ness of Brodgar
Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk
Save Wemyss Ancient Caves Society (S.W.A.C.S.)

02/10/2025

Reminder - on Thursday, 9th October at 18:00 for 18:30 at Lower Parliament Hall,66 South Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9QW…


Nick Card, director of the excavations: Ness of Brodgar: 1000 years in the making – 20 years of discovery.

For more information see...
https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ness-of-brodgar-1000-years-in-the-making-20-years-of-discovery/


FFAN -Fife Field walking and Archaeology Network

19/09/2025

The schedule for the 2025-26 series of talks has now been finalised.

The season starts with 'The Mitford Memorial Lecture: Nick Card on the Ness of Brodgar: 1000 years in the making – 20 years of discovery'. This is on Thursday 9th October at 18:00 in Lower Parliament Hall.

For the full list of talks see our Events page...
https://www.facebook.com/St.AndrewsUniversityArchaeologySociety/events
or click on this link to our website…
https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/programme/


FFAN -Fife Field walking and Archaeology Network

Thu May 8 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Guess who’s coming to dinner? Ceramic form and style in medieval and post medieval Scotland. A reflection of dietary change and external influence School 1 St Salvators Quadrangle, St Andrews DEREK HALL, University of St Andrews takes us into Medieval Scotland through...