06 December 2023, Starts: 18:00

Couples, coins & coffins: archaeology, storytelling & the Glencoe landscape 

Online talk by Dr Michael Given, U. of Glasgow

Organised by Glencoe Museum. Cost £6.13. Further details and registering on Eventbrite.

Glencoe is rich not just in history, archaeology and scenery but in stories – and stories are how people explain their place in the world. Houses, glens, roads, and mountains all have their stories, and so do ordinary household objects like pots and coins. In this talk, Dr Given will tell some local stories and show how they help us to understand what places and houses meant to the people who lived in them. Many of the structures and artefacts that archaeologists discover do not have stories that have been remembered across the centuries, but part of the role of the archaeologist is to try and tease their stories out of them.