Archaeology
Excavation at Trusty's Hill
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Next Lecture
The next meeting of the Society is on 22 October 2021, when the speaker is
Dr Alan Gibbs (Geologist)
How to travel in space and time: the geology of Dumfries and Galloway
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.