📌 November's Speaker Event #Fife #Heritage #worldwartwo

Now that the sun has come out again can you help our friends @dynamiccoast.bsky.social by reporting any coastal storm erosion or storm impacts using the Coastal Erosion Reporter on the Dynamic Coast website. Of course we would love to hear from you if archaeology is affected – thank you! #stormboelo

Another of the talks at our forthcoming TAFAC 2026 Conference on 7 November at the James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie: Ben Saunders, Wessex Archaeology. '“I pushed a thing, it made me feel powerful” Conducting archaeological survey and excavation for wellbeing in East Fife'.

Alison Beach will be speaking at our 2026 TAFAC Conference on 'History in Our Bones: Uncovering Stories of Disability Across Time', exploring disability and embodied difference across the life course. Accompanies the exhibition at McManus Galleries, featuring a Pictish woman from Lundin Links.

Cullen Cockburn wil be speaking at our 2026 TAFAC Conference on 'Excavations at Aberlemno 3: No stone left unturned' Following storm damage to Aberlemno Stone 3 in 2025, a small hand excavation was carried out by AOC beneath the stone uncovering a robbing cut, two small pits and some small finds.

Madison Reavis will be speaking at our 2026 TAFAC Conference on 'Excavations at Methil Mill: Community-Led Investigations into the Industrial Heritage of the River Leven'.

Richard Oram and Lucy Dean will be speaking at our 2026 TAFAC Conference. At last, the project investigating the site of Scotland's only Carthusian monastery, founded in Perth in 1429 by King James I, has moved from desk-based research and geophysics to excavation. Key discoveries will be announced!

In TAFAC's 50th anniversary year, Lisbeth Thoms MBE, a founder member, will look back to 1976 and give insight as to why and how the Committee was set up. She will pay tribute to the people involved at the start, highlighting achievements of the last five decades: conferences and publications.

Tickets for the 2026 TAFAC Conference , 7 November 2026 available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recent-arc...

Recent Archaeological work in Tayside and Fife 2026

Join us in person or online to hear the latest news of some of the amazing archaeology going on in Perth & Kinross, Angus and Fife

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Hannah Boyd will be speaking at the TAFAC 2026 conference on Saturday 7 November. She’ll be sharing insights into the Forth Valley & Fife and North East Scotland Archaeological Research Frameworks. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recent-arc...

Recent Archaeological work in Tayside and Fife 2026

Join us in person or online to hear the latest news of some of the amazing archaeology going on in Perth & Kinross, Angus and Fife

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Kate Britton's talk at our 2026 TAFAC Conference: 'Stepping through the sands of time: discovery, rescue archaeology and analysis of the prehistoric footprint site at Lunan Bay, Angus’ : discovery, analysis and implications of Scotland’s first prehistoric footprint site.

Derek Hall will be speaking at our 7 Nov 2026 TAFAC Conference: ‘Idleness is the enemy of the soul’. Season 3 of the Monastic Archaeology Field School at Lindores Abbey' Five new trenches were opened: what information do they provide on the operation of the Tironensian Abbey of Lindores in Fife?

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Announcing some of our 2026 Conference speakers! Richard Oram and Lucy Dean will be speaking on the Perth Charterhouse Project, which recently started excavations at the King James VI Hospital site in Perth.

Doors Open Days 2026 in Perth & Kinross are 19 & 20 September. Loads of interesting buildings, free entry. Why not try the PSNS Library at Perth Art Gallery, visit the Museum of Abernethy, see a WWW2 POW camp or join a Rock Art Workshop! www.doorsopendays.org.uk/regions/pert...

Our 2026 Conference is coming up soon! First Saturday in November is our date (7 Nov). We'll be at the James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie. Book via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recent-arc...

Recent Archaeological work in Tayside and Fife 2026

Join us in person or online to hear the latest news of some of the amazing archaeology going on in Perth & Kinross, Angus and Fife

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Open Day at Lindores Monastic Archaeology Excavations, 2 July, 10.00am to 3.00pm www.monasticarchaeology.org/2026-field-s...

Northern Picts at Burghead, 22 August - site tours, displays, Pictish-style crafts - for a braw day oot!

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Bigger and better than ever - the Annual Day of the Picts at Burghead will be on the 22nd of August this year. Get it in your diaries!

Thanks to Sunday Post for this headline: 'Vennel I See You Again'. (Visit Perth Museum if ye dinnae ken wut a Vennel is.)

Balgay Park in Dundee may have been established in the 19th century, but remnants of the past are scattered around it which stretch back 4,000 years ago 🌳 On 21 June, join a guided walk led by New Scots who've been researching the history and archaeology: www.digitscotland.com/events/guide...

What was daily life like in the vennels for the traders, craftspeople and food producers of medieval Perth? 🏪 Uncover their stories at Perth Museum’s new exhibition, Vennels: Perth’s Little Streets, which features rarely seen archaeological discoveries: www.digitscotland.com/events/venne...

NEW OPEN ACCESS E-BOOK: 'Roman Camps in Scotland' by @drbecjones.bsky.social Our 20th open access e-book will be of interest to those who wish to know more about the archaeology of the Roman army, its campaigns in northern Britain and the ancient military mind: www.socantscot.org/news/new-ope...

With #Europa2026 approaching, explore curated prehistory research from #Cambridge! Articles are free to read through June where not already #openaccess. 📚 https://cup.org/4ulQbO5 #archaeology #prehistory @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

TAFAC is deeply sorry to hear of the recent death of Anna Ritchie, distinguished archaeologist and so much more. We extend our sincere condolences to Anna's family and friends. She will be sorely missed.

📣 @antiquity.ac.uk is flipping to #openaccess for research content! ✅ All research content published in the journal from January 2027 will be permanently and freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌍. Find out more! 🔗 https://cup.org/4cvNjZj #archaeology #SAA2026SFO

Exhibition on Perth's Vennels opens on 29 May. Read our Meal Vennel excavation report here: journals.socantscot.org/index.php/ps... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Perth's 'little streets' to feature in new exhibition

The show will explore the conditions for traders and craftspeople in the city hundreds of years ago.

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Just published, #68 in the ARO series (free, Open Access). Well done to Cameron Archaeology and friends! 'Iron Age Age and early medieval settlement at Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire' by Moyra Simon, Alison Cameron & Gordon Noble www.archaeologyreportsonline.com/reports/2026...

Rhynie, a Powerful Place of Pictland. Now available as an Open Access publication from Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, by Gordon Noble and a host of others: books.socantscot.org/digital-book...

Next Abertay Historical Society talk is Brick Hunting in Scotland, by Ian Suddaby. April8, 2026,Lecture Theatre 2, Dalhousie Building, Dundee Uni, 6.00pm for 6.30pm brick-off. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brickhunti...

Brickhunting in Scotland

A talk by Ian Suddaby hosted by the Abertay Historical Society

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Another fine publication in GUARD Archaeology's online open access series: ARO67 is Alan Hunter Blair's 'A Minister's Abandoned Farmstead at Greeanan, Strath Brora, Sutherland' www.archaeologyreportsonline.com/PDF/ARO67_Gr...