In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable Neolithic discoveries The Ness of Brodgar—roughly, “headland of the bridge ...

Archaeologists found the ruins of an Iron Age settlement with a “rare” ancient Roman brooch buried underneath, possibly as an offering. Photo from GUARD Archaeology Sifting through the dark ...

This is the lower left hand corner of a Roman commemorative stone. Professor Lawrence Keppie of the Hunterian Museum thinks that there may have been some decoration on the missing part. He has ...

On Christmas Eve 1950 four young Scottish students took the 'Stone of Destiny' from Westminster Abbey. The symbolic stone had been taken from Scotland to England centuries before Show more On ...

George Bird, a “local archaeology enthusiast,” had a theory about the Farley Moor standing stone. He suspected this decent-sized, slightly pointed, moss-covered rock in Farley Moor forest “might be ...