. It will attempt to use place-names as a tool for the rough dating of peat clearance on the carse basically between Stirling and Falkirk, showing peat had been cleared, or potentially so, for around 1500 years. It also argues that Lord Kames' clearance of peat at Blairdrummond was part of the latest phase, not […]
The Earl's Bu, Orphir, Orkney. The beating heart of a Norse Estate, from feasting to trade.The Round Church and Earl's Drinking Hall at Orphir form a focus of a much larger estate, which supported the Late Norse Earl's in agricultural resources as well as providing homes for their wider retinue. The building of a Norse […]
Join us in Eaglesham Library, Montgomery Hall, Eaglesham
Online talk: This presentation will survey the fieldwork undertaken at Govan Old in the past few years. This fieldwork is linked to the redevelopment of the site by the Govan Heritage Trust. The fieldwork includes the probing survey of the churchyard which has recovered a number of lost gravestones and included the excavation at the […]
