DGNHAS | Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Founded 1862

Welcome to DGNHAS

Welcome to the new version of the DGNHAS website, which is more accessible using mobile devices and more easily maintained than the earlier version.

All the content of the earlier version is available here, possibly in a new form and accessed in a different way. The main difference is in searching the website and gaining information on the contents of the online Transactions using TDGNHAS index cards. See the Searching page for more information.

General feedback and information on errors or omissions are welcome. Please e-mail the webmaster using the link on the Contacts page.

Tongland Abbey Excavations Open Day

The Open Day runs from 11am to 4pm on Saturday, 28 September – all welcome. By kind permission of the owner, there is car parking in the grounds of Mansewood. Admission is free but donations to excavation funds are always welcome.

Where:

Mansewood, the former Tongland Manse

When:

28 September 2019, 11am – 4pm

Conference on the History of Lead Mining in Scotland

The conference is organised by the Leadhills Heritage Trust. See the poster giving details of how to register and how to get there.

Where:

Hopetoun Arms Hotel, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire

When:

Saturday 19 October 2019, 10:30—3:30

Lecture Programme 2019-20

The Lecture Programme for 2019-20 is now available. See elsewhere on this page for full details.

Please note that the Friday evening meetings will now be held in the Dumfries Baptist Church Centre, Gilbrae Road, Georgetown, Dumfries, and not in the Cumberland Street Day Centre.

Clish-Clash, the e-newsletter of the Scottish Local History Forum

Clish-Clash is the e-newsletter of the Scottish Local History Forum.

The newsletter gives recent and forthcoming news about activities in the local history community.

“Clish-clash” means “repeated gossip” in Scots, and the newsletter passes on information about local history activities.

The aim is to issue Clish-Clash bi-monthly, but this depends on the amount of information received from SLHF members and others.

LECTURE PROGRAMME 2019–20

All meetings, except that on 21 March 2020, are held on Friday evenings in Avenue rooms 1 and 2 of Dumfries Baptist Church Centre, Gillbrae Road, Dumfries DG1 4EJ at 7.30pm.

VISITORS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND ANY MEETING

Meeting dates give links to meeting reports.

4 October 2019
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Dr Jeremy Brock, retiring President’s address
Life, wildlife and death in rural Spain

18 October 2019
Dr Timothy Mighall, Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Stories of past mining and metallurgy from bogs and bones.

1 November 2019
Jim Logan, Gatehouse-of-Fleet
Queens, razors and pelican’s feet — sea shells of the north Solway coast.

15 November 2019
Mark Nixon, Independent Historian, Blackford, Perthshire
The 1884 Reform agitation in Dumfriesshire and Galloway.

29 November 2019
JAMES WILLIAMS LECTURE
Adrián Maldonado, Glenmorangie Research Fellow, National Museums Scotland
Reassembling the early church in south-west Scotland: the artefactual evidence.

CHRISTMAS BREAK

10 January 2020
Peter Norman, Project Officer, South West Scotland Environment Information Centre
Abandoned farmsteads in Dumfries and Galloway.

24 January 2020
Matthew Cook, Peatland Action Project Officer, Scottish Natural Heritage
Beneath the surface — history and culture in the Peatlands.

7 February 2020
Robert Gladstone, Capenoch, Penpont
Capenoch — changes on a country estate.

21 February 2020
MEMBER’S LECTURE
David Devereux, Kirkcudbright
Trial excavations at Tongland Abbey,

6 March 2020
Adrian Cox, Senior Cultural Resources Advisor, Historic Environment Scotland
Lochmaben Castle: archaeological investigations 2016–2018.

21 March 2020
Tom Rees, Consultant Archaeologist, Rathmell Archaeology Ltd.
Community archaeology for all — the impact of Can You Dig It.
PLEASE NOTE that this meeting is on a Saturday at 2pm in Castle Douglas Parish Church Hall, Queen Street, Castle Douglas.

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