Sally M. Foster FSA FSA Scot is a Scottish archaeologist and senior lecturer at the University of Stirling. [1] She specialises in the archaeology of Scotland, particularly the Picts and their neighbours in the early medieval period.
Foster studied at University College London and graduated in 1984 with a degree in medieval archaeology. She completed her doctoral studies under Leslie Alcock at the University of Glasgow. She was awarded her PhD in 1990 with a thesis entitled Aspects of the Later Atlantic Iron Age. She then worked in the cultural heritage sector, as an inspector for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and subsequently Historic Scotland. Returning to academic archaeology in 2010, she was first appointed a lecturer at the University of Glasgow and moved to the University of Stirling in 2014. [2]
Foster chairs the National Committee on Carved Stones in Scotland [3] and is a trustee of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and the Kilmartin Glen Museum Company. [4] She has previously served as the secretary of the Medieval Europe Research Community and an honorary editor of the International Journal of Medieval Archaeology . She is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a member of the Chartered Institute of Archaeologists, the Association of Critical Heritage Studies [5] and the European Association of Archaeologists. [6] She is also a director of the Tarbat Discovery Centre. [7]
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Martin Oswald Hugh Carver, FSA, Hon FSA Scot, is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, England, director of the Sutton Hoo Research Project and a leading exponent of new methods in excavation and survey. He specialises in the archaeology of early Medieval Europe. He has an international reputation for his excavations at Sutton Hoo, on behalf of the British Museum and the Society of Antiquaries and at the Pictish monastery at Portmahomack Tarbat, Easter Ross, Scotland. He has undertaken archaeological research in England, Scotland, France, Italy and Algeria.
Roberta Lynn Gilchrist, FSA, FBA is a Canadian-born archaeologist and academic specialising in the medieval period, whose career has been spent in the United Kingdom. She is Professor of Archaeology and Dean of Research at the University of Reading.
William David Hamilton Sellar, MVO, MA, LLB, FRHistS, FSA (Scot) served as Lord Lyon King of Arms from 2008 to 2014. He was married, with three adult sons and a step-son.
Headland Archaeology comprises a holding company Headland Group Ltd and the trading subsidiary Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd. These companies provide archaeological services and heritage advice to the construction industry.
Christian Maclagan was a Scottish antiquarian and early archaeologist. She is known for her collection of rubbings of Celtic crosses and Pictish stones from across Scotland, and was a pioneer of stratigraphic excavation. Although she lost the use of her right hand due to a medical condition she nevertheless produced numerous drawings, sketches and paintings with her left hand. She took action to help those affected by poverty in Stirling. She refused to sit for portraits although one obituary described her as tall. She was a suffragist. She wrote an autobiography but the script remains lost. She was nominated to be one of Scotland's Heroines honoured at the National Wallace Monument's Hall of Heroes. She died in Ravenscroft, Stirling.
Richard John Bradley, is a British archaeologist and academic. He specialises in the study of European prehistory, and in particular Prehistoric Britain. From 1987 to 2013, he was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading; he is now Emeritus Professor. He is also the author of a number of books on the subject of archaeology and prehistory.
Dame Rosemary Jean Cramp, is a British archaeologist and academic specialising in the Anglo-Saxons. She was the first female professor appointed at Durham University and was Professor of Archaeology from 1971 to 1990. She served as President of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2001 to 2004.
Audrey Shore Henshall was a British archaeologist known for her work on Scottish chambered cairns, prehistoric pottery and early textiles, including clothing found preserved in peat bogs.
Alison Sheridan is a British archaeologist and was Principal Curator of Early Prehistory at National Museums Scotland, where she worked from 1987 to 2019. She specialises in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland, and particularly in ceramics and stone axeheads.
Nancy Margaret Edwards, is a British archaeologist and academic, who specialises in medieval archaeology and ecclesiastical history. Since 2008, she has been Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Bangor University.
Anne Strachan Robertson FSA FSAScot FRSE FMA FRNS was a Scottish archaeologist, numismatist and writer, who was Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Glasgow and Keeper of the Cultural Collections and of the Hunterian Coin Cabinet at the Hunterian Museum. She was recognised by her research regarding Roman Imperial coins and as "a living link with the pioneers of archaeological research".
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen is Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Professor of Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Leiden. Her research focuses on Bronze Age Europe, heritage, and archaeological theory.
Margaret Eleanor Barbour Simpson, was a Scottish archaeologist. She is considered as the first professional woman archaeologist in Scotland. She was a member of V. Gordon Childe's team of archaeologists at Skara Brae and Kindrochat, as well as the writer of some of the first guidebooks for state-owned historic properties in Scotland.
Caroline Rosa Wickham-Jones FSA was a British archaeologist specialising in Stone Age Orkney. She was a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen until her retirement in 2015.
Rachel PopeFSA is an archaeologist specialising in Iron Age Europe. She is a Senior Lecturer in European Prehistory at the University of Liverpool.
Hannah Cobb MCIfA SFHEA is an archaeologist at the University of Manchester, noted for her work on pedagogy, post-humanist theory, and diversity and equality in archaeology.
Dr Anna Ritchie OBE, BA, PhD, FSA, Hon FSA Scot is a British archaeologist and historian.
Chiara Bonacchi is an archaeologist. She is Senior Lecturer at the University of Stirling.
Barbara Elizabeth Crawford MA PhD OBE FRSE FSA FSA(Scot) is a leading authority on the mediaeval history of the Northern Isles of Scotland and Norwegian-Scottish 'frontier' and relations across the North Sea. She is honorary Reader in Mediaeval History at the University of St. Andrews, and honorary professor at the University of the Highlands and Islands. She was awarded an OBE for services to History and Archaeology in 2011. She became a Member of the Norwegian Academy in 1997 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001.
Emma Jane Wells, FSA is an English Church historian, academic, author, and broadcaster, specialising in the ecclesiastical and architectural history of the late medieval and early modern age. She is currently a lecturer in Ecclesiastical and Architectural History at the University of York. Wells is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA), a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a founding member of the Centre for Parish Church Studies (CPCS).
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