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Shane McLeod

A Traveller’s End? — A Reconsideration of a Viking-Age Burial at Carronbridge, Dumfriesshire

Archaeology (General), Early Mediaeval

TDGNHAS Series III, 88 (2014), 13(WARNING large file size: 7.34 MB)

Abstract

A collection of metalwork — a sword, penannular brooch, and sickle — was found close together in 1989 at Carronbridge in north-central Dumfriesshire and they are thought to have been deposited in the ninth or tenth centuries. In the published report it was suggested that they belonged to a ‘lone traveller’, and a later review of the burial concluded that it should be raised ‘to the category of pagan Norse burials marked as “uncertain’’’. Having reconsidered the evidence and viewed the location of the Carronbridge burial I suggest that it should be moved to the ‘certain’ category. A short review of the evidence for Scandinavians in Dumfriesshire is also given, including the circumstances that may have led to the burial.

B. Morrell

A Wild Goose Chase, Caerlaverock and the Arctic [Lecture to the Society, 17th February, 2006]

Ornithology, Proceedings

TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 179(3.8 MB)

Abstract

Lecture to the Society, 17th February, 2006. The recovery of the Svalbard Barnacle Goose population from around 300 in the late 1940s to 27,000 in the winter of 2005-6 has been a huge success for conservation but with a changing global climate what will t