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Andrew Breeze

Historians, Linguists, and Picts

TDGNHAS Series III, 88 (2014), 7(WARNING large file size: 7.34 MB)

Abstract

Archaeology is making the ‘Picts of Galloway’ famous: in contrast are historians and philologists, who denounce them as mythical, fictitious, non-existent, and (in short) being for Galloway what Monsters are for Loch Ness. However, since the supposed Picts of Galloway refuse to vanish from journalism and popular culture, what follows gives accounts of them over the years. Readers can then put the evidence of archaeology besides that of history and linguistics, and decide for themselves.

J. Threlfell

History of Wildlife Art [Lecture to the Society, 20th October, 2006]

Proceedings, Botany, Zoology, Ornithology

TDGNHAS Series III, 81 (2007), 137(2.95 MB)

Abstract

Wildlife Art as such is a fairly recent development coinciding with a desire to celebrate the natural world and to conserve it. Animals and birds have featured in art of one form or another however down the centuries, from cave paintings onwards, but subs

M.G. Cavers and A. Geddes with R. Engl, A. Heald, D. Masson, Scott Timpany and J. Robertson

Homesteads In West Galloway: Excavation at Airyolland, Mochrum, Wigtownshire

Archaeology (General), Iron Age

TDGNHAS Series III, 84 (2010), 19(3.44 MB)

Abstract

Archaeological work began at the site of Airyolland I in 2004 when a detailed topographic survey was carried out by the authors. In 2006, the first season of exploratory excavation began at the site; two trenches were excavated in the interior and over the perimeter rampart. The results of this first season of work were promising, and although material culture was sparse with little in terms of artefactual evidence recovered, the two trenches excavated yielded well preserved evidence of the original construction of the site. A slot across the perimeter earthwork encountered a massive stone wall, around 3m in width and composed of two well-built faces retaining a rubble core. Excavation within the interior encountered ruinous remains of interior structures, incorporating large boulders as well as several pits or postholes relating to a stone walled building in the lower half of the site.