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05 April 2025
Starts: 09:45
Ends: 16:30
Supporting the Roof in Pre-improvement Vernacular Buildings in Scotland
Seminar organised by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (NoSAS). For bookings, see their website. Cost £15 NoSAS members, £20 non-members
This NOSAS seminar brings together speakers from across Scotland who will contribute to an understanding of the ways that the roof was supported in pre-improvement vernacular buildings in Scotland. Cruck-framed construction has been a traditional method of supporting the roof across Scotland. But there were areas of Scotland where there is no or little archaeological evidence of cruck-frames. What preceded crucks? And why were they superceded in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?
Venue: Highland Folk Museum, Newtonmore
Morning 0945-1315 : The speakers for the morning seminar are:
- Malcolm Bangor Jones (Historian): The evidence for crucks in the Northern Highlands
- Piers Dixon (ex-RCAHMS): Bridging the gap: how do we interpret archaeological evidence for cruck roofs in the light of architectural survival?
- David Newman (ex architect, ex Uist): Roof construction in Hebridean Thatched Houses
- Coralie Mills (Dendrochronicle): Tree-ring evidence for vernacular roof structures in Scotland (Video presentation)
- Derek Alexander (National Trust for Scotland): Crucks Slots - Gaps in our understanding or a void in the evidence?
- Daniel Postma (Archaeo Build): Typology or not typology, that's the question: archaeological evidence for 5th-13th century crucks in the Netherlands
Afternoon 1415 - 1630: In the afternoon we will be guided round the constructed pre-improvement buildings at the Folk Museum by Bob Powell, who was a previous Principal Museums Officer at the museum.
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05 April 2025
SCAPE Trust needs volunteers to help undertake a field survey of the southern coast of the Dornoch Firth between the 7th and 10th of March and again between the 5th and 7th of April. Surveys usually last a few hours to all-day events (depending on the tide), and we walk along the coast and look for and record coastal archaeology. Participants do not need to have any experience and can join us for as much of the survey as they like. If you are interested, contact Paul Murtagh at pjm32@st-andrews.ac.uk.
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