Archaeological investigations undertaken a few miles to the west of Edinburgh have revealed new insight into Early Iron Age settlement patterns in the central belt of Scotland.
A peat core taken from Ravelrig Bog, close to a number of later prehistoric settlements to the west of Edinburgh, contained palaeoenvironmental material spanning the entire Holocene period.
Archaeological investigations undertaken a few miles to the north of Dumfries by GUARD Archaeology, which have just been published, have revealed new insight into the Roman Army's occupation of southern Scotland during the second century AD.
A current excavation by GUARD Archaeology, which is being carried out as a condition of planning permission for a major development in Stirling city centre, has uncovered human remains, walls and artefacts from Stirling's medieval past.
A recent excavation by GUARD Archaeology, which was carried out as a condition of planning permission for the development of a new electricity substation near Kintore in Aberdeenshire, has uncovered medieval archaeological remains of national significance.
GUARD Archaeology Ltd in partnership with the Museum of Edinburgh at Huntly House in the Canongate, and the City of Edinburgh Council Archaeology Service, are currently undertaking a small archaeological investigation in the courtyard to the rear of Huntly House over the week 4 – 8 August 2014.
A GUARD Archaeology community excavation in Argyll has recently completed the first such excavation of a Drovers' Inn anywhere in Scotland, revealing a snapshot of how it was used before it was abandoned almost 200 hundred years ago.
A team from GUARD Archaeology, led by Christine Rennie, recently carried out a watching brief during the removal of topsoil and overburden over the known remains of a Prisoner of War camp within the policies of Dumfries House in East Ayrshire.
You may have heard of Public Archaeology but a new GUARD Archaeology community excavation has a twist; we are about to start digging a pub, a former Drovers' Inn to be precise and what may be the first such excavation of a Drovers' Inn anywhere in Scotland.
Over the last couple of years, GUARD Archaeology teams led by GUARD Archaeologists Warren Bailie and Kevin Mooney, have undertaken excavations at Dunragit in Dumfries and Galloway.
Archaeological investigations undertaken in the Scottish Borders by GUARD Archaeology have recently concluded that the stone walls, cobbled surfaces and artefacts discovered belong to a lost medieval village dating from between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.
GUARD Archaeology were pleased to sponsor the Politics and Archaeological Research session at the Institute for Archaeologists (IfA) 2014 Conference held at the Marriott Hotel in Glasgow between 9 and 11 April 2014.
In March 2012, the landowner and a local resident spotted a short stone cist exposed in the cliff face of a disused quarry at Sannox on the Isle of Arran.
Following GUARD Archaeology's collaboration with the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology Glasgow University (CBAGU) and local volunteers in investigating Cambuskenneth Abbey in 2012, we are pleased to report some post-excavation results of the work, which was funded by the Tread Right Foundation.
As an IfA Registered Organisation, GUARD Archaeology are committed to the continuous professional development of our staff.
In September 2012 the partial and disarticulated remains of at least five individuals were unexpectedly discovered by workmen in the rear garden of a house in Grove Street, Edinburgh.
On the run up to the 500th commemoration of the Battle of Flodden in 2013, GUARD Archaeology, in collaboration with the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at Glasgow University, were commissioned by Flodden 1513 Ecomuseum to conduct initial investigations at three sites: Ladykirk, Norham Castle and Ellemsford Haugh.
In March 2012, a GUARD Archaeology team, led by Maureen Kilpatrick, undertook a rescue excavation when a cist was inadvertently disturbed during landscaping works following the construction of an access track through Cullaird Wood in West Torbreck, south-west of Inverness.
Last year, a community led project was conducted in Kilallan Kirk, Renfrewshire, by GUARD Archaeology on behalf of Kilallan Kirk Preservation Trust.
In July 2011 GUARD Archaeology Ltd conducted investigations at the location of a small All-Over Corded (AOC) Beaker found during landscaping works at Rothes Golf Course in Moray.
In September 2012 the partial and disarticulated remains of at least five individuals were unexpectedly discovered by workmen in the rear garden of a house in Grove Street, Edinburgh.