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24 February 2022
Starts: 19:00
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
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24 February 2022
Starts: 19:30
Ends: 21:00
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’.
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24 February 2022
Starts: 19:30
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.
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