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… The joint winners of the Society’s Young Researcher Competition for 2025 are Chloe Murley (Lockerbie Academy) and Sofia Stores (St Joseph's College, Dumfries). You can read all … the occasional archaeological dig and occasional outings to places of interest. Members should keep an eye on the latest …
Standard page: Young Researcher Competition
… This competition is designed to encourage youngsters to undertake research into their local heritage. The …
… Garson’s lecture introduced the key aspects of the human history of the wood, and, in part, its natural history, over … been used in the tanning process there. The OS Name Books compiled around 1850 record that the Doon was ‘thickly …
Biography: J. Gibson Starke
… Holm Obituary notice published in the Standard We regret to record the death of Mr James Gibson Hamilton Starke of … Road Board, and also convener of the Faculty's law committee. These offices he demitted when, in 1871, he … years ago. The funeral, which is of a private nature, takes place to-day to Dumfries cemetry. … J. Gibson Starke …
Volume: TDGNHAS Series II, Volume 17
… Field Meeting. Glencairn, Snade Camp, Dardarroch, Brockhillstone and Lag Tower Author: Not declared 109 Field Meeting. … Scott-Elliot, G. F. 257 The Assassination of the Red Comyn Author: Chinnock, E.J. 263 The Weather of 1902 Author: Andson, W. 265 Weather and …
… The first lecture in the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society lecture series for 2018–19, … entitled Stories Behind Dumfries and Galloway Coastal Place Names , was given by Nic Coomby of the Solway Firth …
Meeting: The Names of Rheged
… December meeting of Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society was very special for two … published in the Society's Transactions, through which he communicated with James; he willingly agreed to come from … of Rheged and the meaning of its name. Recent analysis of places mentioned in the poems of Taliesin and other early …
… Adrian Cox presented his lecture on his community-based archaeological survey and dig at Lochmaben … at Dumfries Baptist Church Centre. The dig was intended to get a sense of the condition of the archaeological layers … area of the south of Scotland. It has the earliest and best preserved peels constructed by Edward in Scotland. …
… explaining that farmsteads have been deserted throughout history, sometimes being rebuilt on the same site, but his … personal names. Peter then described some of the structures common to the sites, including long houses shared by people …