CFA Archaeology News

CFA has a new article in ‘Prehistoric Yorkshire’ detailing our excavations of a rural Iron Age settlement in West Yorkshire. We uncovered evidence of enclosed fields adjacent to a settlement with a roundhouse, grain store, and more - showing both work and domestic life.

Discover CFA’s latest article in SAIR! Our 2019 excavations at Loak Farm, Perth and Kinross, revealed a thriving Bronze Age community living in timber roundhouses and producing surplus grain which they stored in raised granaries. Evidence shows limited Iron Age occupation and early medieval re-use of the site for metalworking and crop processing.

CFA has published an article in the Forth Naturalist and Historian describing our excavations near the Devonpark Knitwear Factory in Tillicoultry.

Check out CFA's new article 'A Beaker cremation burial and a medieval 8-post structure to the north of Edzell, Angus', published in the latest volume of the Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal.

CFA has published an article the The Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society (PCAS) describing our excavations of an Iron Age to Roman rural site in Cambridgeshire.

CFA is proud to announce the publication of an article in the most recent volume of 'Norfolk Archaeology', following an excavation in Attleborough in 2021. Prehistoric pottery was recovered from a pit cluster, indicating domestic Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age activity, and a ring gully and further pits were radiocarbon dated to the Iron Age.

'A Bronze Age Ring-Ditch and Cremation Pit at Williamson Street, Falkirk' describes the results of CFA's assessment on a cremation urn.

The Great Sea Serpent, by Dave McNicol, discusses CFA Archaeology's 2021-2022 excavations on Edinburgh's Great Sea Serpent, the main attraction at The Royal Patent Gymnasium, which operated from 1865 until 1900. This article was published in the Autumn 2024 edition of 'History Scotland'.

CFA has published an article describing the remains of an Iron Age pit alignment which were excavated in 2023 to the east of Orchardfield, East Linton, East Lothian.

Check out the July/August Edition of History Scotland Magazine for an article on the Vulcan Foundry excavated by CFA in 2021.

CFA's article 'Neolithic and Bronze Age Settlement in Angus' discusses excavations which confirmed the presence of features dating from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. The early prehistoric features largely consisted of discrete pits, although two pit groupings may have been small post-built structures of a semi-permanent nature. The confirmed later prehistoric features consisted of a ring-ditch house and a ring-groove house.

CFA published an article entitled 'A rectilinear post-built structure, Roman field ovens and prehistoric settlement at Alyth Substation, Haughend, Perth and Kinross', in Volume 29 of TAFAJ. The article discusses an archaeological site which featured a roundhouse, a series of ovens, and a semi-rectangular post-built structure.

CFA's article, 'Riddle’s Court, Edinburgh: A Merchant’s House Fit for a King' describes extensive historic and archaeological works undertaken on this 16th-century former merchant's house in Edinburgh.

CFA published an article in 'Transactions' describing our excavations of 19th-century houses and commercial properties in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

CFA published an article in the 'Ulster Journal of Archaeology' describing their 2000 excavations of two Bronze Age roundhouses in Island Magee, Northern Ireland.