First Millennia Group meetings
Full 2013-14 programme - coming soon!
Unless otherwise stated, meetings will be held on Tuesdays at 5.30pm in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, School of History, Classics and Archaeology)
| Date | Topic | Speaker(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Oct 2013 | Towards an inclusive narrative: Roman material in the Later Irish Iron Age | Jacqueline Cahill Wilson (Discovery Programme) | |
| 5 Nov 2013 | Drink, Drink, Drink | Jody Joy (British Museum) – cauldrons, Johnny Horn (Edinburgh University) – tankards | |
| 3 Dec 2013 | Reconsidering the human colonisation of the Faroe Islands | Mike Church (Durham University) | |
| 14 Jan 2014 | Atlas of Hillforts Project | Ian Ralston et al | |
| 4 Feb 2014 | Turf architecture in the North Atlantic region in the 1st millennium AD: construction methods, archaeological analyses and interpretation | Karen Milek (Aberdeen University) | |
| *11 March 2014 | A Pictish phantasmagoria. (Joint meeting in Glasgow with the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies) | Martin Cook (AOC) – recent work on Pictish barrows, Gordon Noble (Aberdeen University) – an update on Rhynie | Venue: Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies at 3 University Gardens, Glasgow |
| 1 April 2014 | When is a crannog not a crannog? Excavations at the Black Loch of Myrton, Wigtonshire: Scotland’s first loch village | Anne Crone and Graeme Cavers (AOC) | Venue: Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton Tower |
| 6 May 2014 | Broxmouth and other hillforts | Niall Sharples (Cardiff University) | |
| 24 June 2014 | DAY SEMINAR:Reconsidering the Archaeology of the Early Church | 09.00 - 18.00 Meadows Lecture Theatre |
Previous events
| Date | Title and speaker |
|---|---|
| 2nd Oct. | Tessa Poller Excavations -SERF hillfort programme: an interim view. Heather James -Castle Craig excavations: fort, broch and palisaded enclosure |
| 6th Nov. | Roman round-up Martin Cook: Camelon |
| 4th Dec. | Graeme Cavers, Andy Heald and John Barber: First Millennia Settlement Landscapes: recent investigations in Caithness |
| 8th Jan. | BOYD ORR, GLASGOW |
| 5th Feb. | Unit round up Jennifer Proctor: Needles Eye enclosure, Berwick; |
| 5th Mar. | Elizabeth Schech & Martina Bertini - Glass Beads |
| 2nd Apr. | Early Medieval round up Ronan Toolis & Chris Bowles: The Galloway Picts Project: the excavation of Trusty's Hill |
| 7th May. | David Clarke -The contexts of sculptured stones |
| 11th Jun. | Day Seminar |
| Date | Title and speaker |
|---|---|
| 4th Oct. | Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances |
| 1st Nov. | |
| 6th Dec. | BOYD ORR, GLASGOW. Euan MacKie – Atlantic Iron Age pottery c.700 BC – AD 500: a brief overview. Iron Age Atlantic Scotland AND Orlene McIlfatrick – Looks aren’t everything: pottery manufacturing technology in Iron Age Atlantic Scotland |
| 10th Jan. | Kate Anderson – The weapons and warfare of northern Britain |
| 7th Feb. | Tanja Romankiewicz – Land, stone, trees, identity, ambition – what does it take to build a broch? |
| 6th Mar. | Martin Carver – Pitcarmick in context |
| 3rd Apr. | Dawn Gooney – Human Remains from the Knowe of Skea, Westray in the Orkney Islands |
| 1st May. | AOC/CFA – Recent work at Inveresk |
| 5th Jun. | Day seminar - details to be announced |
Further information
Seminar organisers: Dave Cowley, Fraser Hunter & Rod McCullagh