1+ hour, 18+ min ago   (575+ words) WHAT a pleasure it was at the weekend to receive a letter from New Zealand telling me that Harry McNish had been awarded the first ever Polar medal by the Irish Polar Association, a relatively new organisation. Note that the…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (762+ words) A GROUP of students have discovered the remains of what is thought to be a medieval Viking church about 1000 years old on an uninhabited Scottish island. The Gordonstoun pupils made the discovery on an archaeological field trip to Swona, a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (797+ words) ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered the shattered remains of a 6000-year-old human that could be the oldest person from Stirling - with experts believing they could belong to some of Scotland’s first-ever farmers. Dr Murray Cook made the discovery as part of his…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (520+ words) A DECADES-long search for a Royal 17th-century ship that sank in the Forth carrying treasure worth "hundreds of millions", may be over. The Blessing of Burntisland was a wooden ferry which was on its coronation tour of Charles I in…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1227+ words) IF you’ve ever found yourself on the M9 motorway between Falkirk and Grangemouth, you’ll perhaps recall driving past two enormous steel horse heads emerging from the side of the road. No, you weren’t hallucinating. These heads are in fact the largest…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (691+ words) AN ANCIENT Scottish tradition once on the brink of disappearing is enjoying a surge in popularity, but enthusiasts have warned the growing interest could put centuries-old lifting stones at risk. Scottish stone lifting, a practice dating back hundreds of years,…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (843+ words) HIGHLAND history has a way of playing into the present. So, Dingwall’s 800th anniversary as a royal burgh this year has a lengthy list of celebratory events including fun runs, archaeology, music and books, as well as completed renovation of a…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (497+ words) A SALT marsh in the Outer Hebrides provides an “almost unbroken record” of sea level changes over the last 2500 years, scientists have said. Researchers studying the marsh at Gress on the Isle of Lewis had originally been searching for deposits…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (504+ words) Dating to the late 17th century, the weapons are rare surviving examples of work by the gunmaker and goldsmith William Lyndsay the Elder of Montrose in Angus. Experts said they are likely to have belonged to a wealthy and influential local…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (485+ words) ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered evidence of an ancient funeral ritual involving the deliberate removal of human brains and the fashioning of bones into sharp tools in Scotland for the first time. Analysis by researchers from the University of York of the…...