24 February 2022

An Archaeological Tale of Two Constantines: Forteviot and Govan

Online talk by Prof Stephen Driscoll

Organised by Scottish Society for Northern Studies. For further details and booking information see their website www.ssns.org.uk

24 February 2022

Grave Goods. Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain

Online talk by Professor Duncan Garrow (U. of Reading), organised by ARCH. Bookings via Eventbrite

This talk will provide an overview of the results of the recently-completed and published ‘Grave goods’ project – a research collaboration between Duncan Garrow (University of Reading), Melanie Giles (University of Manchester) and Neil Wilkin (British Museum). Britain is internationally renowned for the high quality and exquisite crafting of its later prehistoric grave goods. Objects from burials have long been central to how archaeologists have interpreted society at that time. Interred with both inhumations and cremations, they provide some of the most durable and well-preserved insights into personal identity and the prehistoric life-course, yet they also speak of the care shown to the dead by the living, and of people’s relationships with ‘things’.

24 February 2022

Roads to improvement: an Historical Geography of the Destitution Roads

Online talk by Jamie Arnaud

Organised by Gairloch Museum. Cost £3. For details and to book, see the museum website

An examination of the ideologies behind road construction as a relief project during the Great Highland Famine (1846-50). As well as providing details about the history and geography of the Destitution Roads, this will explore how organisations in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London believed they could solve the ‘Highland Problem’ and improve the region by making material changes to the landscape.