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Displaying 421 - 430 of 2530 itemsTDGNHAS Card: 3040-9
… Geology … Structural geology … Igneous geology … Paleontology … Mineralogy … 3040-9 …
TDGNHAS Card: 3084-5
… The death of Alexander 3rd in 1286 threw Scotland into tumult … Robert Bruce it gave an unpleasant foretaste of what was to come. The strategic position of the region ensured that it … of allegiance and support. The reasons for this persistent local turbulence are complex. … Mediaeval … History … 3084-5 …
TDGNHAS Card: 3081-2
… The Solway islands are little known beyond Dumfries and Galloway, indeed several books about the islands of Scotland omit them … (e.g. H.Haswell-Smith. 2004. 'The Scottish Islands a comprehensive guide to every Scottish island)'. Progressing …
TDGNHAS Card: 3079-30
… Summary of a lecture delivered to the Society on 18th March 2005. The factory constructed in Gretna to produce cordite (the Devil’s porridge) needed for the manufacture of munitions … World War I was part of a much larger site extending from Longtown t … Recent … Recent (Social) … Industrial …
TDGNHAS Card: 2006-2
… Geology … Structural geology … Mineralogy … Zoology … Prehistory (General) … Archaeology (General) … Recent …
TDGNHAS Card: 3076-6
… This paper reviews the archaeological evidence for the organisation of the later … prehistoric landscape that has emerged from work in the Border Counties over the last twenty years. It challenges any …
TDGNHAS Card: 3079-2
… Loch Skeen (or Skene, NT 171 165) is a moraine dammed loch lying in a NNW/SSE direction in an upland corrie basin. … Tail SSSI, owned by the National Trust for Scotland. A description of the site is given by Mackinlay (2003). The … …
Biography: James Starke
… James Starke James Starke was a judge in Ceylon, who on his retirement purchased the residential estate of Troqueer Holm at Dumfries. His wife, who bore the rather …
TDGNHAS Card: 3082-3
… A trapezoidal enclosure, previously known only from aerial photographs, was the focus of archaeological investigations at Evan Road, Beattock. No dating evidence for the enclosure was retrieved, although it is likely …