Archaeology
Excavation at Trusty's Hill
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Conference: The Early Peoples of Galloway
The Early Peoples of Galloway is a one-day conference studying the peoples who inhabited what is now Greater Galloway during the ten thousand years between the retreat of the glaciers and the year 1000 AD. Experts from a variety of fields will explore the story of these immigrants, their identities, cultures and languages and their impacts and legacies over successive centuries.
The conference is open to all, but booking is required. See the poster for details.
Where:
CatStrand, New Galloway
When:
Saturday, 3 September 2022, 10.00 - 16.00
DGNHAS Meetings 2022-23
At the recent Council meeting of the DGNHAS it was decided that the lecture programme for next session (2022-23) will take place on Thursday evenings instead of Friday evenings. We hope that this will be more convenient for you.
Please note that it is expected that all meetings will take place both in person and on Zoom.
James Brown Booklet
Following the exhibition on James Brown and Knockbrex earlier this year at the Mill on the Fleet, Gatehouse-of-Fleet, a very informative and well-produced booklet has just been published, entitled James Brown:A Businessman of Many Passions.
Stones and Stories
Stones and Stories: some medieval monuments in Eastern Dumfries by Peter F Ryder FSA is a well-illustrated and extensively researched survey of cross and grave-slabs from eastern Dumfriesshire, published by Broomlee Publications in A5 format, 62 pages in length, with black and white drawings and some colour photographs. It is a companion volume to The Medieval Cross Slabs of the Borders by the same author (available from the Berwickshire Naturalists' Field Club.
The Resort of All Amorous Couples
The Resort of All Married Couples is a new book by Alverie Weighill, the Society's Treasurer.
The book describes how Thomas Telford’s 1820 toll-house at Gretna came to be built and how it became part of Gretna’s infamous marriage trade. Based on original sources and contemporary accounts and placed in the context of nineteenth-century Gretna, it traces the house’s history from the turnpike and stagecoach era, through two World Wars, to its present role in the Gretna story.
Regional Ethnology of Scotland – records of everyday life during the COVID-19 outbreak
Despite the enormity of it all, one thing is certain — we are living through extraordinary times.