Scottish Archaeology at Glasgow

Taken collectively, we represent the largest group of scholars actively researching the archaeology of Scotland. Scotland’s archaeological record is a precious resource for understanding the wider human experience, as evidenced by its five UNESCO World Heritage Sites, covering ancient prehistory (Heart of Neolithic Orkney) to the some of Europe’s best surviving Roman remains (Antonine Wall) to the Enlightenment (New Lanark). Human occupation in Scotland reaches back to the Final Upper Palaeolithic, more than 10,000 years before the historical period, and our research currently spans the Mesolithic to the present day. 

Our approach to Scottish archaeology recognises the connections with the rest of Britain, Ireland and NW Europe and promotes collaboration with cognate scholars in History and Celtic as well as with all the national bodies responsible for Scottish heritage (Historic Scotland, Royal Commission for Ancient and Historic Monuments in Scotland, National Trust for Scotland, National Museums of Scotland). 

Academic Staff

• Prof Stephen T Driscoll
• Prof Bill Hanson
• Dr Kenneth Brophy
• Dr Chris Dalglish
• Dr Nyree Finlay
• Dr Colleen Batey
• Dr Ewan Campbell

Research Students

• Adamson, Donald Beck: Commercialisation before Culloden: An archaeology of the re-direction of food surpluses in the Scottish Highlands prior to 1745
• Bankier, Anne: Norse Settlement and Contacts in Northern Argyll
• Buchanan, Courtney: Scandinavian artefacts from southern Scotland and northern England: cultural contacts, interactions and identities in peripheral areas of Scandinavian settlement
• Blackwell, Alice: Anglo-Saxon artefacts from northern Britain: an insight into personal identities, social relationships and cultural horizons in the Early Historic period
• Christian, Terence: Operations Analysis of Second World War Squadrons in Scotland Including a New Methodology for Aircraft Wreck Excavation
• Ferguson, Natasha: An Assessment of the Impact and Contribution of Metal Detectorists to Battlefield Archaeology
• Grant, Kevin: Evocations of Modern Scottish Highland and Island Landscapes
• Hall, Nicky: Materiality and Ritual Practice in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Landscapes of Western Scotland
• Horne, Tom: A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland: Defining Hebridean-Norse Sub-region in the Viking World
• Kyle, Alison: An examination of regionality in the material culture of Ireland and western Britain in the first millennium AD
• McCabe, Morgana: Liminal Faces and Places: the feared other in the archaeological landscape
• McNutt, Ryan: A methodology of historic landscape reconstruction and predictive modelling of battlefield locations
• Novotny, Jen: Sedition at the supper table: the material culture of the Jacobite rebellions
• Pierce, Elizabeth: Identity at the Far Edge of the Earth: An examination of cultural identity manifested in the material culture of the North Atlantic, c. 1150-1450
• Sahlén, Daniel: Production of crucibles and moulds in late prehistoric Scotland: the evidence from ceramic technology
• Watson, Shirley Ann: The Cultural Associations and Contemporary Interpretation of Scottish Battlefields
• Wright, A. Dene: The Archaeology of Variation: A Case Study from West Central Scotland during the Mesolithic Period
• Younger, Rebecca: Place, Time and the Practice of Monumentality: reconsidering Neolithic concepts of place and temporality at henge sites in Scotland

Honorary Staff

• Chris Morris
• Rachel Barrowman
• Sally-Ann Coupar
• Dr Stuart Nisbet
• Mr Mark Hall
• Dr Fraser Hunter
• Mr Dave Cowley

Current Research Projects and Networks

• Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot (Driscoll, Brophy, Campbell, Dalglish, Given)
• Parkhead and Dalmarnock Community Heritage Project (Given)
• Discover Bute Landscape Partnership Scheme (Finlay)
• Multiple Stone Rows (Brophy)
• Dunadd Digital Archive (Campbell)
• Colonsay Midden Project (Finlay)
• Scottish Mesolithic Geophysical Survey Project (Finlay)
• Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project
• Dun Eistean (Barrowman)
• Upper Clyde Valley (Hanson)
• Scottish Archaeological Journal
• The Alcock Centre for Historical Archaeology
• Scottish Archaeological Forum
• Scottish Theoretical Archaeology Group

Programmes and Courses

• MLitt in Celtic and Viking Archaeology
• Aspects of the British Neolithic
• Expansion and Control of the Roman Empire
• Roman Britain: acculturation and change
• Early Medieval Gaeldom, 6th-8th Centuries
• Northern Britons, 5th-12th Century
• Picts and the Formation of Alba
• Settlement and Society in Scandinavian Scotland
• Viking Movements
• Viking Age Scandinavia
• Founding of Scotland: 11th-13th Centuries
• Kingship and Locality: Scotland in the 14th-15th Centuries
• Post-Medieval Britain and Ireland