http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: archaeology - Recent Topics en Thu, 21 May 2026 09:32:43 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19877#post-315093 Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:52:05 +0000 unhurt 315093@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.socantscot.org/research/archaeological-research-in-progress-2019-conference-lectures-online-now">Archaeological Research in Progress 2019 conference lectures</a> - now online, in case this is your idea of a nice evening in.</p> <p><a href="https://www.socantscot.org/lecture/2019-rhind-lectures-online-now/">2019 Rhind Lectures</a> are also up now - David Breeze on the long history of study &amp; interpretation of Hadrian's Wall. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19876#post-315091 Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:45:05 +0000 unhurt 315091@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Free (but ticketed) event at the National Museum:</p> <p><a href="https://www.socantscot.org/event/scotland-creating-a-medieval-kingdom-2/">Creating Scotland: Assembling a Medieval Kingdom<br /> </a>October 14 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm</p> <p>"Lecture: In conversation with Hamish Torrie FSA Scot (The Glenmorangie Company), Dr Adrian Maldonado (National Museums Scotland) and Dr Heather Pulliam (University of Edinburgh)</p> <p>The medieval kingdom called Scotland was not a predestined or obvious outcome of the politics of the first millennium AD. Even in the twelfth century, Britain north of the Tweed was a patchwork of laws, languages and identities. Do the art and artefacts of the 9-12th century provide a different perspective on the formation of a feudal kingdom? This conversation event discusses the impact of ten years of the Glenmorangie Research Project at National Museums Scotland, and the unique perspective which comes from a focus on the material culture." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19794#post-312942 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:57:40 +0000 unhurt 312942@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://themannthemyth.home.blog/the-mann-the-myth-conference/" rel="nofollow">https://themannthemyth.home.blog/the-mann-the-myth-conference/</a></p> <p>This sounds like an excellent day out - and only £10.</p> <p>"2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Glasgow’s great eccentric antiquarian and amateur archaeologist Ludovic Mclellan Mann (1869-1955). A controversial figure during his lifetime, Mann nonetheless carried out important excavations, was Scotland’s first ‘rescue archaeologist’ and lived a life committed to public archaeology and heritage education. He is well known for his colourful books on ancient measurements and Earliest Glasgow, and his excavations at the Druid Temple, Clydebank in 1937-9."</p> <p>...I admit I didn't know much about him, and I certainly didn't know about the "druid temple" in Clydebank (my mum's from there)!</p> <p>I know one of the organisers, Kenny Brophy, and he is dead good, you can get a flavour of some of his interests at <a href="https://twitter.com/urbanprehisto">@urbanprehisto</a> or read his stuff at <a href="https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com</a></p> <p>Venue is Glasgow University Union. Email to let them know you're coming by end September (so they can get enough sandwiches in). </p>