Up until now only members have had the privilege of accessing our newsletters but we have decided we can’t keep all the fun to ourselves. Recent newsletters will still only be available to members, a perk of membership if you like, but here is our newsletter archive, a treasure house of personal reminiscences, reviews, essays and much more – lose yourself.
Category: News
Winter Zoom Talks 2023
A new series of online lectures began with Eddie Stewart’s talk Past the Shieling, through the town. Watch it here.
Dates for future talks available in Events.
The second of this year’s Zoom talks was given by Colin Davenport from Bannockburn House Trust on the archaeology of the grounds of the house. Watch it here
See all our previous Zoom talks on our Youtube channel
Annual General Meeting 2022
It was a great pleasure to be able to hold our first in-person AGM for two years. There was a good attendance and the formal part of the event passed uneventfully including the approval of the meeting for the recommendations from the short-life working group for the future development of ACFA. Great enthusiasm was demonstrated for the proposal of sub-committees looking at publicity and recruitment, and training with a number of people coming forward to join them.
After an excellent buffet lunch there were the customary presentations by members of recent archaeological activity. Dugie MacInnes updated us on the Tiree, Halterburn and Luing surveys, Ailsa Smith gave a presentation on the Hynish Lines project, Susan Hunter showed highlights from the ongoing survey at Thorntonhall and Irene Dayer talked about a previously unrecorded rock art and extraction site near Balfron which she has worked on as part of her Masters’ studies at Glasgow University.
Photography Competition Results
This year’s overall winner, and recipient of the ACFA Quaich, was Chris Morrison.
Category winners were Simon Davies, Drone (top left), Christine McDiarmid, Humour (top right), Fred Hay, International (bottom left), and Chris Morrison, Home (bottom right).
Tiree Photogrammetry
During the last week in October 2022 we had a large team surveying new sites in Tiree. Member Simon Davies carried out photogrammetry on a selection of the sites and the resulting 3D models can be viewed at https://sketchfab.com/Smilemaker/collections/tiree-a4b4ac5e642d432fabecbbf55ac6d9f3
News from the Western Front or Latest Happenings in Luing
A survey team of intrepid field archaeologists have returned to the island of Luing in the Inner Hebrides to continue ACFA’s survey of it and its sister islands. Photos arrived today of Dugie, Libby and Margaret risking life and limb recording a possible late medieval earthwork and a promontory perched on top of a sea cliff on the west coast of the island
