Aug 23, 2024
St Andrews is once again hosting the AIG Women’s Open Golf Championship this year and we thought we would take this opportunity to highlight the archaeology of the Old Course, the history of the women’s game in Scotland, and its links with the coast. St Andrew’s is...
May 16, 2022
In April we kicked off our new Coastal Zone Assessment Survey of the south Moray Firth and Aberdeenshire coasts. Over two trips with local volunteers from NoSAS, we walked much of the coastline from Inverness to Culbin Forest. Along this stretch of coast, the low tide...
Jun 19, 2021
Between 2012 and 2016, hundreds of volunteers involved in the Scotland’s Coastal Heritage at Risk Project carried out condition surveys of coastal heritage sites around Scotland threatened by erosion. The survey found endangered sites in every Local Authority area...
Apr 2, 2020
Earlier this year I went for a walk along a local stretch of the Fife coast, starting at the famous St Monans salt works and ending at Pittenweem. This must be one of the busiest sections of the Fife Coastal Path, and there are numerous recorded coastal heritage sites...
Oct 22, 2019
Excavation, survey, historical research Research by local historian John Reid first highlighted the archaeological and historical interest of Higgins Neuk on the south bank of the Forth. Placename evidence, documents and old maps pointed to this being the location of...
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