Events
Below is a list of upcoming talks, activities and other events.
To watch presentations recorded from previous online MAD evenings, click here.
For the events listing on the ARCH website please click here.
Events led by NOSAS are clearly indicated - these are open only to members and their guests unless stated otherwise.
30 October 2025 19:30
Online Talk: Charms to Ward Off Witches. Halloween Special
Online MAD with Eric Grant: "The archaeology, material culture and apotropaic symbolism of witchcraft and magic". Eric will give an overview of the witch trials of the 16th and 17th Centuries, but then concentrate on the material culture of witchcra...6 November 2025 19:00
NOSAS AGM and Talk: Steve Birch on the Mesolithic at Tarradale
The NOSAS AGM at 7 pm will be followed by a talk given by archaeologist Steve Birch from approximately 7.30. A discussion will follow. We have a new venue for the season's meetings - St Ninian's Church Hall in Culduthel Road, Inverness. This link wil...15 November 2025 10:30
Culbokie Henge Tidy Up
Come and help tidy up Teanagairn prehistoric henge, which is a current "Adopt a Monument project" sponsored by NOSAS. Meet at 1030 - In layby on A9 by entrance to Teanagarin Farm Drive. Grid ref NH 59048 58019. Wear warm and protective clothes and ...20 November 2025 19:30
Online Talk: Martin Carruthers on the Cairns, Orkney
This online only talk will be given by Martin Carruthers of UHI on the Cairns broch excacations at South Ronaldsay Orkney. Full details to follow. A link will be sent to NOSAS members nearer the time. The excavations at The Cairns are part of an ar...4 December 2025 19:30
NOSAS MAD Evening - History & Archaeology of Mining in the Highlands
The venue for this season's MAD evenings is St Ninian's Church Hall in Culduthel Road, Inverness. This link will allow Google Maps to get you there. The presentations of this MAD evening will provide both an overview of mining in the Highlands and ...5 February 2026 19:30
NOSAS Talk: Ben Elliott on the Mesolithic
MAD night with Ben Elliott of UHI on the Mesolithic and evidence of the Storeggia tsunamis at Tarradale. More details to follow. We have a new venue for the season's meetings - St Ninian's Church Hall in Culduthel Road, Inverness. This link will all...5 March 2026 19:30
NOSAS Talk: Steve Worth on Kinloss Abbey
NOSAS MAD night. Details to follow
We have a new venue for the season's meetings - St Ninian's Church Hall in Culduthel Road, Inverness. This link will allow Google Maps to get you there.
20 March 2026
NOSAS visit to Kilmartin Glen
NOSAS visit to Kilmartin Glen from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd March. We are arranging a NOSAS multi day visit to the archaeological delights of Kilmartin Glen in Argyll. For a very brief overview of the sites, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilm...26 March 2026 19:30
NOSAS Online Talk: Michael Zambon on the Conan Stone
Details TBC
16 April 2026 19:30
NOSAS Talk: The Battle of Littleferry 1746
Major General P C Marriott CB CBE, HM Lord-Lieutenant for Sutherland will talk about the skirmishes at Littleferry in Sutherland which occured between Jacobites and local militia the day before the Battle of Culloden. Appropriately, the talk takes pl...15 September 2026 10:00
NOSAS Scrub Clearance Carn Glas, Essich, Stratherrick
Carn Glas Chambered Cairn NH 6493 3830 In 2023 a series of NoSAS Work Parties cleared the gorse scrub obscuring this important Neolithic Chambered Cairn lying 3 miles to the south of Inverness. When you consider what the site was like before, thi...