Online Archaeological Discussion Evenings
Before Covid-19, NOSAS used to meet during the darker months for Monthly Archaeological Discussion evening meetings, appropriately known as "MAD Meetings". From March 2020, we had to go online. Speakers make a short presentation on a subject of interest to them followed by a Q and A session. As of 2022 we have been able to offer in person talks again, but have continued to supplement these with online and hybrid options. Upcoming meetings can be found on the What's On page.
Most of the events have been recorded, so that you can watch them again, using the links below. Guidance on how to use Zoom can be found here. Note that the Q&A part of the evening is not part of these recordings. Should you specifically want to watch that part, please contact roland.spencerjones@gmail.com.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Link |
| 23.04.20 | Lachlan McKeggie | Domestic Wooden Objects in the National Museum of Scotland | |
| 23.04.20 | Malcolm Bangor-Jones | Coigach: Exploration of the Rough Quarter | |
| 07.05.20 | Duncan Kennedy | Highlanders and the Military Landscape | Zoom |
| 07.05.20 | Mary Peteranna | Archaeology of Inverness West Link development, Phases 1&2 | Zoom |
| 21.05.20 | Marion Ruscoe | Raigmore Hospital: from EMS to NHS | Zoom |
| 21.05.20 | Jonathan Wordsworth | Archaeological Evidence for Charcoal Burning in the Highlands | Zoom |
| 04.06.20 | Cathy Dagg | The kelp industry in Lochbroom: Looking beyond the statistics | YouTube |
| 04.06.20 | Jo Hambly | Archaeology of the Wemyss Caves 2019 – unabridged video | YouTube |
| 18.06.20 | John Borland | The Invergowrie Stone - a perfect Pictish stone? | YouTube |
| 18.06.20 | Susan Kruse | Telford in the Kyle of Sutherland | YouTube |
| 02.07.20 | Eric Grant | Tinsmiths & Travellers: Archaeology on the Move | YouTube |
| 02.07.20 | Rhona Ramsay | Nacken Chaetrie in Scottish Museums | YouTube |
| 16.07.20 | Scott Timpany | Recent palaeo-environmental work in the Highlands region | YouTube |
| 30.07.20 | Adrian Maldonado | The last days of Fortriu? The Croy Hoard Revisited | YouTube |
| 13.08.20 | Graeme Cavers | Living in Iron Age Assynt: The Clachtoll Broch and Beyond... | YouTube |
| 20.08.20 | Andy Hickie, Roland S-J | Knockfarrel Henge - a new discovery | YouTube |
| 10.09.20 | Coralie Mills | Tree-rings, timbers and woodland heritage in northern Scotland | YouTube |
| 24.09.20 | Darroch Bratt | Archaeological Variety at Illicit Distilling Sites: Form v Function | YouTube |
| 22.10.20 | Eric Grant | Tarradale Mills and Stills | YouTube |
| 22.10.20 | Anne Coombs | Dalnamain - investigating a multi-period settlement | YouTube |
| 29.10.20 | John Wombell | A Mesolithic Quest | YouTube |
| 05.11.20 | Marc Chivers et al | Moder Dy - from Shetland - Community Maritime Heritage | YouTube |
| 26.11.20 | Anne Coombs | Flax - considerations of its techniques, industry and archaeology | YouTube |
| 10.12.20 | Marion Ruscoe | Inverness Southern Distributor Road development from the air | YouTube |
| 07.01.21 | Anne-Jonathan-Cathy | Pre Improvement Agriculture in the Highlands | YouTube |
| 21.01.21 | David Alston | Slavery in Suriname & Guyana - & the link to the Highlands | YouTube |
| 04.02.21 | Piers Dixon | Deer parks, Traps and Hays - Hunting & Hunting Forests | YouTube |
| 11.02.21 | Tanja Romankewiecz | The Use of Turf as a Building Material - Turf Worlds | Not recorded |
| 18.02.21 | Neil Bruce | The Highland Exclusion Zone in WWII | Contact NOSAS |
| 04.03.21 | John Baldwin | Horizontal Mills | Not recorded |
| 18.03.21 | Andrew Wright | Highland Houses - going, going, gone? | YouTube |
| 30.03.21 | Michael Stratigos | The Crannogs of Highland Scotland | YouTube |
| 06.04.21 | James McComas | The Tarradale Barrow Cemetery Dig 2019 Video Premier | YouTube |
| 22.04.21 | NoSAS JS Bone Team | Jim Bone's Gift to the World | |
| 06.05.21 | Aaron Watson | Experiencing Rock Art: From Kilmartin to Clava | YouTube |
| 20.05.21 | David Newman | The Missing Houses: settlement patterns in the Outer Hebrides | YouTube |
| 17.06.21 | Steve Dockrill, Julie Bond | Excavating Swandro early Iron Age site on Rousay, Orkney | YouTube |
| 08.07.21 | Anne Crone | Excavations at the Black Loch of Myrton in Galloway | YouTube |
| 05.08.21 | Juliette Mitchell | Skeletons in the Archive: Rediscovering Old Museum Collections | Contact NOSAS |
| 25.11.21 | John Borland | The Classification of Pictish Stones | YouTube |
| 13.01.22 | Candy Hatherley | Culduthel: a unique Iron Age craft-working site | YouTube |
| 22.02.22 | Derek Alexander | National Trust for Scotland and Glencoe | YouTube |
| 17.03.22 | David Jarman | The Stalker Path Phenomenon | YouTube |
| 14.04.22 | Iain MacilleChiar | Gaelic in the Landscape | NOSAS |
| 22.11.22 | Holley McCoy | History and Heritage of Scotland's Seaweed Industry | YouTube |
| 11.01.23 | Kate Britton | Picts on the Move - the revelations from isotope studies | YouTube |
| 24.01.23 | Gordon Noble | An Update on Pictish Sites | YouTube |
| 09.03.23 | Richard Guest | NOSAS Crannog Project Update | YouTube |
| 28.04.23 | Jo Hambly | Boat Graveyards in Scotland | YouTube |
| 28.10.23 | Adrian Maldonado | Beyond Picts and Vikings: Northern mainland Scotland 800-1100 | YouTube |
| 04.11.23 | Tony Pollard | The Archaeology of Culloden Battlesite | YouTube |
| 18.01.24 | Stuart Jeffrey | Staffa and Unpath'd Waters | YouTube |
| 08.02.24 | Duncan Garrow | The Neolithic Crannogs of the Western Isles | YouTube |