Going underground: Exploring the caves of Courier Country

Michael Alexander digs deep to explore the folklore behind some of Fife and Tayside’s most famous caves.

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Picts and the Wemyss Caves

To coincide with our appearance on Channel 4’s “Britain at Low Tide”, Joanna Hambly has written a very informative article about the Pictish presence at the Wemyss Caves.

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East Wemyss and Buckhaven gasworks

We’ve just added a new video to the Wemyss Caves 4D website. Visit the full site at http://4dwemysscaves.org

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New 4D Wemyss Caves website is now live!

Our new 4D Wemyss Caves website is now live!  

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Archaeology Scotland visit the caves

We were delighted to welcome a coachload of visitors from Archaeology Scotland last Saturday as part of their tour of some of the most interesting sites in Fife.

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30th Anniversary Conference

Many thanks to all the speakers and visitors who came to our 30th Anniversary Celebration event last Saturday. We counted around 100 people there over the day and the speakers were excellent and informative from start to finish. For those who missed it, all the talks can be seen below.

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30th Anniversary celebration and conference

Saturday, 22nd October, is our 30th Anniversary celebration and conference in the Old Kirk in Kirkcaldy. It’s shaping up to be a great day, with over 80 advance registrations so far to hear some of the best speakers from across Scotland on Pictish art and archaeology.

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SWACS use RTI skills to help out

In the cemetery of Kirkcaldy Old Kirk there is a very strange gravestone. Its two sides each have a different dedication, commemorating deaths separated by some twenty years. One side is dedicated by his brother to a man who was buried at sea in 1808. The other side names a

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SWACS host archaeologists’ tour

This weekend we took part in the SCHARP Conference in St Andrews which gathered together archaeologists and volunteers who work to record, protect and publicise coastal heritage sites across Scotland. It was an amazing day where we heard about the work being done by groups like ours from Stranraer to

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SWACS hosts international delegates from the European Association of Archaeology Conference

On Sunday 6th September, SWACS hosted a group of international delegates from the European Association of Archaeology Conference, which was held in Glasgow this year.

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