CFA Archaeology News

'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.