Recorded lectures
Cathcart Castle reconsidered
Brian Kerr will look at some of the key elements in the development of Cathcart Castle, a tower house on the south side of Glasgow, from its construction in 1450 through to its abandonment and partial demolition in c.1740.
Annual General Meeting and Royal Archaeological Institute Past: Women and the RAI
The AGM will begin at 16.45 followed by the President's lecture at 17.00 on 'Royal Archaeological Institute Past: Women and the RAI'.
Digging deeper: Initial results from the A428
Archaeological excavations conducted by MOLA ahead of The A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Improvement Scheme revealed evidence for Iron Age Pioneer Settlements in the Claylands of Bedfordshire and
Archaeology in a nature and climate crisis
We are all aware that we are in the midst of a global nature and climate crisis, and discussions of the urgency of responses, for nature recovery, for looking after the natural w
In Search of Britain’s Oldest Pubs
Numerous claims are made to be Britain’s oldest pub from all corners of the isles.
A Mesolithic experience: Excavations at Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay
In January 2009, pigs snuffling in the bracken on east coast of the Isle of Islay, western Scotland, turned up some small pieces of flint on a small terrace known as Rubha Port an t-Seilich (
The Maison Domat, Mirefleurs (France): stories of Ancient and Modern Celts, Romans, Bourbons, Stuarts and Hollywood
I will tell a number of intersecting stories which spin-off from a grant given to me in the 1970s by the Institute, to explore the origins of Iron Age oppida in the Auvergne (Aul
2024 Spring Meeting
The Spring Meeting (event) was held in Newark on Saturday, 11 May and was led by Dr Mark Gardiner and Mr Peter Ginn.
Iron Age and Roman Silchester: Fifty years of research in perspective
Once thought to be a worked-out site following the Society of Antiquaries’ excavations, 1890 – 1909, excavations at Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) since the 1970s have shown rema
The Justinianic Plague in England: archaeological contexts and consequences
The ‘First Pandemic’, an outbreak of bubonic plague which struck Constantinople in the late spring of AD 542, was relatively well recorded by some contemporary writers.