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Displaying 281 - 290 of 2530 itemsNews: Sofia Stores and Chloe Murley: Joint winners of the DGNHAS Young Researcher Competition for 2025
… This year the judging panel of the Society decided to award the prize jointly to Chloe Murley (Lockerbie Academy) and Sofia Stores (St Joseph's … Chloe Murley: Joint winners of the DGNHAS Young Researcher Competition for 2025 …
TDGNHAS Card: 3088-3
… — 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 … a ‘lone traveller’, and a later review of the burial concluded that it should be raised ‘to the category of pagan Norse …
TDGNHAS Card: 3084-3
… Archaeological work began at the site of Airyolland I in 2004 when a detailed topographic survey was carried out by the authors. … encountered a massive stone wall, around 3m in width and composed of two well-built faces retaining a rubble core. …
News: ‘Dinna Forget – Memoirs of the Kirkcudbright District and Beyond by John McKie RN (1821-1915)’
… on Kirkcudbright Bay. He went to school at Borgue Academy until 1839, and then followed a career as a millwright and then as a mechanical … he retired in the early 1870s and became involved in local community initiatives, in particular the establishment of …
Volume: TDGNHAS Series II, Volume 19
… G. F. 14 How the Ruthwell Runic Inscription was Deciphered Author: Chinnock, E.J. 29 Standing Stones of … Author: Fleming-Hamilton, (Miss) 32 Have Bees a Colour Sense? Author: Rodda, J.T. 33 Observations on Seed … of 1707 in Dumfriesshire Author: Whitelaw, J.W. 97 An Incident in the History of Kirkcudbright Author: Robison, J. 124 …
TDGNHAS Card: 3083-5
… four hundred years, historians have been perplexed by the location of ‘Rosnat’, a British monastery and house of … discusses the problem and then (on the basis of new evidence) suggests that the place was Old Kea in Cornwall, on a … creek between Truro and Falmouth. If so, it allows us to identify (somewhat unexpectedly) a home of Celtic learning …
… The speaker at the meeting of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society (DGNHAS) on 16 … painstakingly restored the castle, converting it into a comfortable home, while retaining many of the original features of the building. John started by describing the history of Barholm Castle. It was built in …