First Millennia Studies Group

We're very excited to have Dr Sophia Adams coming to talk to us about this award winning project in April!

Our next seminar is this coming Tuesday 03/03 at 18:00.

We have a change of venue, it will be held in **Lecture Theatre A, 40 George Square**

Andrew Fitzpatrick “La Tène: everything you wanted to know but never felt strong enough to ask”

Oblique aerial view of The Cairns during the 2024 excavation © UHI Archaeology Institute

Our next seminar is tomorrow (03/02). Martin Carruthers is venturing south to tell us all about the excavations of Iron Age households at The Cairns #broch & settlement

18:00 hours in the Usha Kasera lecture theatre, Old College

Our next talk is on Tuesday 13/01 at 18:00 in the Usha Casera Lecture Theatre

L Teufel: “A multi-period settlement next to the River Spey”.
C Hatherley: “The Roman Villa Estate at Necton, Norfolk”
C Cockburn: “Excavation results from two possible Roman Temporary Marching Camps near Edinburgh”

Tuesday 13 January, venue Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre Old College, speaker various, title/theme Unit Round-up Tuesday 3 February venue Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre Old College, speaker Martin Carruthers, title/theme Making and Breaking the Broch: Excavating Iron Age Households at The Cairns settlement, Orkney Tuesday 3 March, venue Lecture Theatre A, University of Edinurgh, 40 George Square, Speaker Andrew Fitzpatrick, Title/Theme La Tène: everything you wanted to know but never felt strong enough to ask Tuesday 7 April venue Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre Old College, speaker Sophia Adams, title/theme Accumulating wealth: the growing story of the Melsonby Iron Age hoard Tuesday 5 May, venue Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre Old College, speaker various, title/theme Finds Medley

🎉We can finally reveal our seminar programme for the rest of 2026!

📆We start next Tuesday (13/01) with the traditional unit roundup showcasing some recent commercial archaeology projects.

➡️Please note that we are now meeting in the Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre in Old College (except for March)

Our next seminar is tomorrow - 2nd December with the superb @archaeonado.bsky.social on his recent research into Whithorn

6pm in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre

Our next seminar is Tuesday 4 November at 6pm

Peter Guest will be talking on 'Feeding the Roman Army in Britain '

Once again the seminar will take place in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh.

Our first seminar of the season is tomorrow, Tuesday 7 October at 18:00

Tanja Romankiewicz will be presenting on '"Another Wall of Turf": the Antonine Wall in the context of Roman turf building'

Please note that in a departure from the norm we are in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre

We are still finalising our lecture programme for 25-26 (due to some administrative speedbumps)

But we can confirm our first three lectures will be held in Edinburgh on the following dates:

7 October
4 November
2 December

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The FMSG Committee has had a planning session this evening and we're really excited with the draft seminar programme for 2025-26.

More details in due course when speakers have confirmed

That's the 2024/25 seminar series wrapped up for us.

We'll be back in October for the 2025/26 series.

As we go about planning this, we would like to know:

- What do you like about FMSG?
- What could be changed?
- Ideas for topics / speakers
- Offers of papers to add to our ideas

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