NOSASArchaeologyBlog

Our next talk features Dr Michael Zambon, who has been undertaking research with UHI Archaeology Institute, into the Conan Stone. The Conan Stone is a Pictish cross-slab found by members of NOSAS in 2019. This talk is in Inverness on Thursday 19th March is open to non-members.

Here is a fantastic talk that Steve Birch gave for us on the Mesolithic shell middens at Tarradale within a national and international perspective. It focuses on the 2017 & 2023 excavations which produced a significant range of antler artefacts. youtu.be/86QG-DQf-zY?si…

Teanagairn henge at Culbokie is now part of an adopt a monument project with NOSAS and @ArchScot. We have a tidy up day on Sat Nov 15th. Further details at nosas.co.uk

We have just completed a week of fantastic archaeology, digging the Loch Achilty crannog with the Nautical Archaeology Society. We opened 3 trenches and found probable structural oak timbers in all of them. Trenches are now backfilled and samples await analysis.

Holly Young and Ben Elliott of Uhi archaeology looking at John Wombell's amazing Mesolithic cowrie bead mockup at HAF2025

A new blog post by Archaeologist Steve Worth on a project he is undertaking at Kinloss Abbey in Moray, a 12th C Cistercian monastry. Read about what research, geophys and fieldwalking have revealed so far. nosasblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/arc…

Here is a detailed new blog post by David Jarman on leisure paths and walks created by Highland estates in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Findon Estate, on the Black Isle is fleshed out as a case study. nosasblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/a-w…

The henge at Conon Bridge

A new blog post by Gordon Sleight about ongoing research into Iron Age farming Practices at Clachtoll Broch in Assynt. The broch was excavated by Historic Assynt and AOC Archaeology in 2017. Research is currently being undertaken by Katie Smith nosasblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/far…

And that's a wrap. Day 3 at the Tarradale Barns done. Not sure if we'll be back. Possibly not for another community dig on this site anyway. Thanks to everyone who's volunteered over the last year and a bit!

Day 2 of our dig at the Tarradale Barns near Muir of Ord and lots of hard work with some heroic shifting of soil and stone. One more day to go!

Day 1 of our July dig at the Tarradale Barns near Muir of Ord. We continue over the weekend...

We are digging again at the Tarradale "Barns" near Muir of Ord for a long weekend of archaeological excavation on Fri 25th, Sat 26th and Sun 27th July. Fancy volunteering? See tarradalethroughtime.co.uk/calendar/excav…

And another new blog post. This time John Wombell on a recent visit to the Dava Way with musings on archaeology and the recent huge wildfires in that area. nosasblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/a-l…

Here's a new blog post by NOSAS member and UHI archaeology student Iris Longworth on her recent field school experience. Iris was digging at The Cairns in Orkney, a fabulous Iron Age broch site. nosasblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/on-…

Great new blog post by Michael Sharpe on a Bronze Age midden site at Cullerne in Moray. Read about hammer stones, discoidal flakes, animal bone assemblages, a saddle quern and possible post holes. nosasblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/a-b…

Pot luck. A cast iron cooking pot spotted on the wall of an old building by Loch Morar yesterday. Our expert says 18th/ 19th Century and that this one "has been cracked and repaired and I'm surprised that it survived as broken ones would normally be recycled for scrap"