Stephen T. Driscoll

BA (University of Pennsylvania), MSc (Pennsylvania), PhD (University of Glasgow), FSA
Professor of Historical Archaeology
Department of Archaeology
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ

Tel. +44 (0)141 330 6114
Fax. +44 (0)141-330 3544
email: s.driscoll@archaeology.arts.gla.ac.uk

 

Research

Interests

• Early Medieval Scotland - Landscape and sculpture.
• Ph.D. thesis topic: The Early Historic Landscape of Strathearn: the Archaeology of a Pictish Kingdom.
• Later Medieval Scotland - the archaeology of Christianity, castles in context, urban development.
• Historical Archaeology - method and theory, rural settlement studies.

Projects

• Strathearn & Royal Forteviot Project (SERF)

Research Director of GUARD

GUARD (Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division) is the department's field unit and consultancy service. It specialises in producing high quality reports on survey and excavation work undertaken for commercial clients and government bodies particularly in Scotland. GUARD also acts as a research institute. It initiates research projects in Scotland and the wider world. It serves as a centre for scholarly projects funded by research councils and academic grants.

Teaching

• Archaeology of Scotland (Level 1; convenor)
• Picts and the formation of Alba (Honours)
• Kingship and locality: Scotland in the 14th and 15th centuries (Honours; convenor)
  
• The Northern Britons 40-1100 AD (Honours; convenor)
• Early Medieval Gaeldom: Scotland and Ireland c.400-850 AD (Honours)
• Historical archaeology (MLitt)
  
• Medieval archaeology (MLitt)
  

Recent publications

in press. Historic Govan, Scottish Burgh Survey, Council for British Archaeology Monograph 00 (York). Co-authors: C. Dalglish, I. Maver, N. Shead & I. Shearer

2006. The Late Iron Age and Early Historic Period, in G. Ewant and D.Pringle,  Dundonald Castle Excavations 1986-93, Scottish Archaeological Journal 26.1-2, 4-11.

2006. Articles on Edinburgh, Govan and Glasgow in J. Koch et als (eds) Celtic Culture: a Historical Encyclopaedia, Aberystwyth, 623, 813, 839.

2005. ‘The Govan School revisited; searching for meaning in the early medieval sculpture of Strathclyde’, in S. Foster and M. Cross (eds) Able Minds and Practiced Hands, Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph (Leeds). Co-authors: O. O’Grady and K. Forsyth, 135-58.

2005. ‘Ad Gefrin and Scotland: the implications of the Yeavering excavations for the north’ in P. Frodsham and C. O’Brien (eds) Yeavering: People Power and Place, (Stroud), 161-73.

2004. Govan from Cradle to Grave, Friends of Govan Old Lecture Series (Glasgow).

2004. The Archaeological Context of Assembly in Early Medieval Scotland - Scone and its Comparanda, in A. Pantos and S. Semple (eds) Early Medieval Assembly Places, Four Courts Press (Dublin), 73-94.

2003. Govan: an early Medieval Royal Centre on the Clyde, in R. Welander, D. Breeze and T. O. Clancy (eds) The Stone of Destiny: Artefact and Icon, Society of Antiquaries of  Scotland Monograph 22 (Edinburgh), 77- 83.

2002. Excavations at Glasgow Cathedral 1988 – 1997, Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 18, (Leeds).

2002. Alba: the Gaelic Kingdom of Scotland AD 800 –1124, Birlinn (Edinburgh).

2001. ‘The Migration Period’ and ‘Saxons & Celts’, in The Penguin Atlas of British and Irish History, Penguin (London), 58-65.