17 October 2024, Starts: 19:00

Scotland’s earliest animal carvings 

Online talk by Dr Tertia Barnett

Organised by Kilmartin Museum. Free. For further information and booking see their website.

In May 2021, Historic Environment Scotland released exciting news of the discovery of animal carvings in the Early Bronze Age burial cairn at Dunchraigaig in Kilmartin Glen. This unprecedented find was publicised around the world and even satirised on Radio 4’s News Quiz. This talk explores the story behind the discovery and the subsequent investigations by Scotland’s Rock Art Project and Historic Environment Scotland, in collaboration with Kilmartin Museum, to authenticate the carvings as the earliest known animal depictions in Scotland.