AN amulet once thought to have supernatural power, evidence of feasting in the Hebrides 5000 years ago, and a lost medieval ...

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 ...

DALBEATTIE, SCOTLAND—The Scotsman reports that the 1950s excavation of the Mote of Urr, a motte-and-bailey castle in Scotland’s Southern Uplands, has been published by a team of researchers from Guard ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

A cluster of tightly packed cremation urns on a quiet Scottish hillside is forcing archaeologists to rethink how people died, and mourned, in the late Bronze Age. The 3,300-year-old remains, uncovered ...