First Millennia Studies Group

We're not quite ready to announce our speakers and their topics yet, but please save the dates below for our 2026-27 Seminar Series. Keep an eye here and on our website for the finalised programme firstmillennia.wordpress.com/lecture-cale...

Our next seminar will be on Tuesday 3 November at 18:00 in the Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College, University of Edinburgh Matt Knight, NMS, will be talking on 'Scotland's First Warriors - the curator's cut" www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Our first seminar of the 2026-27 season is today (06/10) at 18:00 @antoninewallblues.bsky.social will be speaking on "Foraging a frontier: fresh approaches to craft and social organisation in Antonine Scotland" The seminar will be held in the Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College Quad, UofE

Our final seminar is tomorrow (05/05) and is the annual 'finds medley' featuring three speakers: Dawn McLaren on artefact deposition at Black Loch of Myrton Leanne Demay on materialising identity at Burghead Gemma Cruikshanks on metalworking at St Moluag's, Lismore 6pm in the Usha Kasera LT

Come along to our seminar TODAY to hear more about this astounding discovery

Our next seminar is on Tuesday 7 April at 18.00. Sophia Adams will be talking about the extraordinary finds in the Melsonby Hoard "Accumulating wealth: the growing story of the Melsonby Iron Age hoard" For this seminar we return to the Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre in Old College

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”

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”

🎉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 Sign up to our mailing list to make sure you get the most up to date info

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 🏺