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Displaying 71 - 80 of 613 itemsMeeting: The Heart of Galloway: recent archaeological work on NTS properties at Threave and Rockcliffe
… have the dual purpose of learning about different methods, and at the same time helping with specific excavations. … from the house as seen today, As a side issue, it was mentioned that the prominent artist, E.A. Hornel, who lived in … the prominent observation tower. By this time, the coming of the railway had divided the estate, with the new …
Biography: W.A.F. Balfour-Browne
… Obituary, Transactions , Series III, Vol. XLIV, pp.226-7 Professor Balfour-Browne, who died suddenly in … on 28th September, 1967, in his 93rd year, was not only one of the most distinguished entomologists of his … by the Professor and Miss Burnand when the Society paid a visit to Brocklehirst on a delightful early-summer afternoon …
Meeting: European Drove Roads
… for the first DGNHAS meeting of 2017. The speaker, Viv Wood-Gee from Hoddom, enthralled members with her 2015 talk on … to employ two or three staff to check on drove roads and compile documentation to ensure that drove roads are … priority and are important in the nation's heritage. On one day in the year cattle can be herded through Madrid to …
… Listening for the call is the first objective. As light comes up the red brows are visible. It is a beautiful bird. … years. Grazing is encouraged, as long as it is not overdone. The land manager can't do everything and so a part-time … for them. Greenland Whitefront Geese, a migratory species, visit the region in winter. There are two …
… . Dr Maldonado explained how the south-west region of modern-day Scotland has seen several episodes of intensive … for early Christianity. Discoveries of Latin-inscribed stones at Whithorn (c.450 AD) and Kirkmadrine in the late 19th … of late Roman material in the northern Irish Sea zone. And yet the focus remains on sites of a supposed …
… gave up studying Botany at Edinburgh University after one week. He did not believe in exams, as a result of which … people were attracted back into the Old Town. He began to buy up properties for use as student halls, at Riddle's … "By leaves we live … and we live not by the jingling of coins but by the fullness of our harvests." Patrick Geddes. …
Wood Pigot place list: Wood Places, Annan, 1826
… Reference List. North side of the east end of High Street Commercial Bank (High Street) Note: No 4 of Reference List. … Northwards extension of Butt Street Johnston Street (Johnstone Street) Ladies Well Note: East side of Toot Hill [Bruce … Street and Wellington Street … Wood Places, Annan, 1826 …
… Cendere Koprusu Bridge, constructed in the late 190s AD, is one of the best-preserved Roman bridges in the world. It was … within the Empire. Severus went into what is now Iraq when visiting the East. A decade and a half later he came to … must have had some military function: witness one of the welcome to Pathhead signs, as one approaches from the English …
Biography: William George Gibson
… been a patient there only for a few weeks; but during a period of eight or nine months he had suffered acutely from a … tenant of Braehead, in the parish of Kirkmahoe, and was one of the leading farmers of the district. One of his sons, … entitled "A Medical Sketch of Dumfriesshire," and he accompanied Captain Scoresby on an Arctic expedition in which …
Biography: James Gilchrist
… as a schoolmaster in a boarding school to raise enough money through his own efforts and those of his friends to … Gilchrist, 1860), are known, and the role he played in the compilation of papers by other authors is not fully … Special Report on the Geological Features of the Districts visited by the Members of The Society during their Summer …