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Displaying 21 - 30 of 236 items… illness. Old Icelandic Literature might be a topic for the future. David Dutton, a Society member, who taught history … to present his Members' Night talk a fortnight early. The audience was not disappointed: the well-researched topic had … the Rupert Murdoch empire in recent times look moderate by comparison. However, with dwindling newspaper circulations …
… Listening for the call is the first objective. As light comes up the red brows are visible. It is a beautiful bird. … led by Game and Wildlife Conservancy Trust. Julia had studied nightjars in Sherwood Forest. Here they are on the … poor breeding seasons. There was an improvement in 2016. Studied routes, taken by migrating birds, accompanied the …
… Adrian Cox presented his lecture on his community-based archaeological survey and dig at Lochmaben … courtyard and in the peel. Finds included animal bones, medieval pottery and roof slates. The condition of the … layers was found to be excellent which was great news for future investigations. Clear medieval surfaces and drains …
… recent years. He believed they should be protected for the future and hoped that the Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme, working with bodies such as the Midsteeple Project and The Stove Network, … at ground level and above this would have been family accommodation. This might have been for the manager and his …
Meeting: Life on the rocks
… chosen was Life on the Rocks . From the outset the huge audience was spellbound. Humour permeated the talk presented … was the key to the past and that the past is the key to the future". Siccar Point near Cockburnspath is world famous as … rocks with Silurian sediments below. Hutton was not a good communicator but Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology set …
Biography: J. Gibson Starke
… daughter of Major James Gibson, of Edinburgh. Mr Starke studied at Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A.; and, … Road Board, and also convener of the Faculty's law committee. These offices he demitted when, in 1871, he … country after some years of judicial duty in the West Indies, he did not pursue the practice of his profession, but …
Biography: Duncan Adamson, M.A. 1936–2007
… numbers of pupils for the Certificate of Sixth Year Studies. While at Dumfries Academy he served for a number of … and also various articles in the Transactions with the accompanying off-print booklets, on Ann Hill, the Kirkpatrick … source of great value for historians and researchers in the future. Duncan also contributed significantly on the hearth …
… the Roman fort at Glenlochar, near Castle Douglas. Early medieval finds found by metal detector included a small copper … six in Ireland. Casual finds from the same period include a complete stone wheel-headed cross, found by a farmer at Airyolland Farm near Port William. Remarkably three coin hoards of silver pennies, deposited during the Wars of …