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Musselburgh, Tantallon Castle & Preston Mill | Saturday, June 4th, 2016 | 8.30am – 7.30pm
For the Society's first summer excursion of 2016, we will be making a number of stops in Musselburgh, North Berwick, Tantallon Castle, Preston Mill and Phantassie Doocot.
Read more: First Summer Excursion: Musselburgh, Tantallon Castle and Preston Mill
An excavation on the Isle of Coll has uncovered 3,000-year-old swords and spearheads made of bronze. The twelve pieces are thought to have come from at least seven weapons. The items were recovered from what had once been a freshwater loch and they were broken, perhaps on purpose.
Read more: Broken Sword: Excavation of Bronze Age Metalwork on the Isle of Coll
On Wednesday 26th August, 2015 a number of GAS members, together with a good crowd of local people, joined Carol Primrose, former GAS President, for a trip on the Forth and Clyde Canal as part of the 2015 Kirkintilloch Canal Festival. If, like me, you had never visited the Southbank Marina, Kirkintilloch, on the Canal, you were in for quite a surprise.
On Thursday, April 21st, 2016, Glasgow Archaeological Society will be hosting a lecture from Alice Blackwell on Scotland’s earliest silver: phase three of the Glenmorangie Research Project 2015–2017.
Those members who attended our AGM in April will have had a chance to admire the work of Dugald MacInnes. The beautiful slate plaques presented to John Macdonald and Scott Wood as tokens of the President’s Award 2015 were made by Dugald.
Read more: Dugald Macinnes exhibition on the Island of Luing
On Thursday, February 18th, 2016 Glasgow Archaeological Society will be hosting a special lecture by Thomas Rees, titled A founder’s workshop from the Bronze Age? Excavations in the shadow of Hunterston.
Read more: Lecture: A founder’s workshop from the Bronze Age?