with a Place-Name study by Peter McNiven.
Authors: Margaret Gardiner, Libby King and Dugald MacInnes
Format: A4
ISBN: 978-1-8384166-7-6
Pages: 388
Colour illustrations: 141
B&W illustrations: 4
Plans of key features: 22
Tables: 24
Maps and plans: 43
In the Glen of the Dark Goddess
A history and archaeology of Upper Glen Lochay, Killin.
This is a story of the upper part of a small Scottish glen, a ‘glen within a glen’, separated from the lower portion by a narrow gorge.
It is an account of its archaeology from prehistory to the twentieth century withhighlights from the Neolithic including rock art and a long cairn; from the
Bronze Age hut circles and from the Iron age a fine example of a round house.
Later archaeology includes the remains of post medieval settlement, improvements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Breadalbane Hydro Electric Scheme of the 1950s.
It is also a tale of the ordinary people who lived and eked out an existence in the glen; Browns, Campbells, Camerons, Fergusons, MacArthurs, MacCallums, MacDiarmids, MacDonalds, MacGregors, MacIans, MacKerchars, MacMartins, MacNabs, MacNaughtons, MacVeans, Menzies, Robertsons, Stewarts or Stuarts and a host of other family names.
The authors, amateur archaeologists and historians, have helped in recording the archaeology of the glen spanning a period of nearly thirty years and spent two decades researching archival material.
It is hoped that the book will be of interest not only locally and to those with historical connections to the area, but also to a wider audience, particularly those fascinated by the history of the day-to-day lives of the people of Scotland.