A. Breeze
Rosnat, Whithorn and Cornwall
Early Mediaeval, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 83 (2009), 43(WARNING large file size: 5.11 MB)
Abstract
For nearly four hundred years, historians have been perplexed by the location of ‘Rosnat’, a British monastery and house of studies mentioned in the lives of various Irish saints. It was long taken as Whithorn in Galloway, and this is still argued, as we shall see. However, what follows discusses the problem and then (on the basis of new evidence) suggests that the place was Old Kea in Cornwall, on a tidal creek between Truro and Falmouth. If so, it allows us to identify (somewhat unexpectedly) a home of Celtic learning and spirituality that for centuries enjoyed international fame, was the intellectual centre of Cornish or south-western Christianity in the sixth century, and has implications for our understanding of religion in early Scotland, as elsewhere in Britain and Ireland. The present paper may here seem ungracious in trying to show that a home of early learning was not at Whithorn. But, being published in Dumfries and Galloway, it perhaps suggests that, if there was not much learning there in the sixth century, there is a great deal in the twenty-first.
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A. Nicholson
Vikings in Dumfries and Galloway
Proceedings, Early Mediaeval
TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 158(2.63 MB)
Abstract
The Vikings have a bad name in history as harbingers of wanton destruction piling off longships to raid villages and sack monasteries. Recent movies such as Pathfinder and Beowulf reinforce the stereotype of early mediaeval warriors engaging in drinking
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G. Thomson
A Possible Discoid Gravemarker at Kirkconnel Lea
Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Recent, Recent (Literature & Art), Architecture
TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 51(2.63 MB)
Abstract
The old ruined church and graveyard at Kirkconnel Lea on the Springkell Estate near Eaglesfield (NGR: NY 250753) is best known for its association with ‘Fair Helen’ Irving or Bell and her betrothed Adam Fleming de Kirkpatrick. This connection dominates th
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I. Maxwell
Early Christian and Pictish Stones
Proceedings, Early Mediaeval
TDGNHAS Series III, 81 (2007), 139(2.95 MB)
Abstract
J. Romilly Allen and co-author Joseph Anderson published ‘The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland’ (ECMS) in 1903. One hundred years on that work still provides us with the most definitive overview of the subject. Over the same period weathering and dec
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A. Breeze
Brittonic Place-names from South-West Scotland Part 7: Pennygant
Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Etymology
TDGNHAS Series III, 81 (2007), 61(2.95 MB)
Abstract
Pennygant is a fell in Roxburghshire/Borders, by the border of Dumfries and Galloway. Its name has been of obscure meaning, but seems to mean ‘hill of the English, summit of the foreigners’ in Cumbric. It would apparently date from the occupation of the D
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S. Ramsay, J.J. Miller and R.A. Housley
Paleoenvironmental Investigations of Rispain Mire, Whithorn
Quaternary geology, Botany, Archaeology (General), Prehistory (General), Mesolithic, Iron Age, Early Mediaeval, Neolithic
TDGNHAS Series III, 81 (2007), 35(2.95 MB)
Abstract
On behalf of the Whithorn Trust, and with support from Historic Scotland, a palaeoenvironmental study was carried out on a wet fen/mire located 400 m south of Rispain Camp, an Iron Age site in Galloway. The investigation revealed a good lateglacial and ea
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M.G. Cavers
Crannogs in South-West Scotland
Iron Age, Roman and Romano British, Early Mediaeval, Prehistory (General), Archaeology (General), Proceedings
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 180(3.8 MB)
Abstract
Lecture to the Society, 25th March, 2006. Recent work on the lake dwellings of Dumfries and Galloway through the South-West Crannog
Survey a condition monitoring project funded by Historic Scotland has provided a series of site surveys and radiocarbon da
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T. Wegner
The Dumfriesshire Mounts Reconsidered
Early Mediaeval, Antiquarian
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 59(3.8 MB)
Abstract
In 1906 the so-called Dumfriesshire fragments were presented to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in Edinburgh by a certain Norman B. Kinnear. They were registered under the number FC 179 and are still partly exhibited in the current archaeological e
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A. Breeze
Historia Brittonum and Arthur's Battle of Tribruit
Early Mediaeval, History, Etymology
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 53(3.8 MB)
Abstract
An Etymological and philological discussion of Historia Brittonum and Arthur's Battle of Tribuit.
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J.C. Henderson, B.A. Crone and M.G. Cavers
The South West Crannog Survey: Recent Work on the lake dwellings of Dumfries and Galloway
Prehistory (General), Iron Age, Roman and Romano British, Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Botany
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 29(3.8 MB)
Abstract
The second season of the SWCS Phase 2 was carried out in September 2003 and January 2004 and comprised detailed digital survey of submerged and dry areas of selected crannog sites in Dumfries and Galloway. Small scale underwater excavations at one site, L
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Jane Murray
The William McDowall Selby Collection
Genealogy, Archaeology (Non-British), Archaeology (General), Prehistory (General), Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Early Mediaeval, Roman and Romano British, Parish History, Antiquarian, Recent, Recent (Social)
TDGNHAS Series III, 79 (2005), 147(4.05 MB)
Abstract
In 1946 a Miss Helen Selby brought into the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland a collection of artefacts gathered largely from local sources by her father, William McDowall Selby, and grandfather, Robert Bird Selby, who served successively as medi
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D. Hextall
Kirkconnel Parish Heritage Society
Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Post-mediaeval archaeology, Recent, Recent (Social), History, Parish History, Proceedings, Industrial Archaeology
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 155(4.91 MB)
Abstract
Summary of a lecture delivered to the Society on 16th January 2004 by Derek Hextall of the Kirkconnel Parish Heritage Society. The society was set up in 1997. The society has developed several projects to mark the vast heritage of the parish. Cairn School
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D. Alexander, E. Pirie, F. Hunter, P. Simpson and G. Thomas
Early Historic and Mediaeval Activity at Chapelton, Haugh of Urr, Dumfries and Galloway
Numismatics, Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Recent, Roman and Romano British
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 61(4.91 MB)
Abstract
This paper announces the discovery of a potentially important early historic and mediaeval site, with likely ecclesiastical associations at Chapelton, Haugh of Urr. The previously unrecorded remains were exposed during topsoil stripping associated with th
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I. Banks
The Excavations of Multi-period Remains adjacent to the Banked Enclosure of Warden's Dykes, Gretna: Neolithic, Bronze Age and Early Historic Evidence from the M74
Archaeology (General), Prehistory (General), Neolithic, Bronze Age, Early Mediaeval, Iron Age, Mesolithic, Quaternary geology
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 37(4.91 MB)
Abstract
Excavations were carried out by GUARD (Department of Archaeology, Glasgow University) around the site of Warden's Dykes on behalf of Trusthouse Forte and BP Oil UK Ltd in advance of the construction of an access road for the new Gretna motorway service st
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A.E. Truckell
Roman Carlisle & the Lands of the Solway by Mike McCarthy
Roman and Romano British, Iron Age, Early Mediaeval, Review
TDGNHAS Series III, 77 (2003), 234(1.68 MB)
Abstract
McCarthy's book on 'Roman Carlisle and the Lands of the Solway' does more than its title and provides a full review of the archaeology of both the English and Scottish sides of the eastern end of the Solway from the early quaternary to the early mediaeva
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A. Breeze
Brittonic Place-names from south-west Scotland, Part 4: Glentenmont, Rattra, Tarras and Tinny Hill
Etymology, Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval
TDGNHAS Series III, 77 (2003), 161(1.68 MB)
Abstract
Glentenmont, Rattra, Tarras and Tinny Hill are all in Dumfries and galloway, with Cumbric names that respectively seem to mean 'fire-river mountain', 'great homestead', 'strong river' and 'hill of (a man called) Tanet'. They are this evidence for the anci
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A. Wilson
Roman and Native in Dumfriesshire
Roman and Romano British, Early Mediaeval, Numismatics
TDGNHAS Series III, 77 (2003), 103(1.68 MB)
Abstract
Dumfriesshire in the Roman Iron Age was possibly the least decentralised area of south-west Scotland with much of its territory probably occupied by north-western Brigantes embracing septs such as the Anavionenses of Annandale. Few Roman finds and none of
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J.C. Henderson, B.A. Crone and M.G. Cavers
A Condition Survey of Selected Crannogs in south-west Scotland
Prehistory (General), Iron Age, Roman and Romano British, Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Botany
TDGNHAS Series III, 77 (2003), 79(1.68 MB)
Abstract
The first phase of the South-West Scotland Crannog Survey, the primary fieldwork for which was carried out in 1989, examined the assumption that submerged crannogs in the south-west were relatively stable while their counterparts on drained land were rapi
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R. Toolis
A Survey of Promontory Forts of the North Solway Coast
Prehistory (General), Iron Age, Roman and Romano British, Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval
TDGNHAS Series III, 77 (2003), 37(1.68 MB)
Abstract
This paper presents the results of a survey of promentory forts on the Solway Coast of Dumfries and Galloway. This work was carried out by the author primarily to determine the extent and nature of erosion affecting these sites. The surveying programme al
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J. Williams
Review - The Excavation of a Scottish Lowland Crannog: Excavations at Buiston, Ayrshire 1989-90 by Anne Crone and others
Review, Archaeology (General), Iron Age, Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Antiquarian
TDGNHAS Series III, 76 (2002), 168(1.97 MB)
Abstract
Review of the publication by Anne Cone and others of 'The Excavation of a Scottish Lowland Crannog: Excavations at Buiston, Ayrshire 1989-90'. Covers all aspects of the archaeology - including a review of Robert Munro's 19th century excavations. Includes
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C. Crowe
Holywood, an Early Mediaeval Monastery: Problems and possibilities
Mediaeval, Early Mediaeval, Parish History, History, Etymology
TDGNHAS Series III, 76 (2002), 113(1.97 MB)
Abstract
Discusses the placename and archaeological evidence for precursors of the mediaeval premonstratenian foundation - particularly in the early mediaeval period.
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S.P. Halliday
Settlement, Territory and landscape: the later prehistoric landscape in the light of the Survey of Eastern Dumfriesshire
Quaternary geology, Geography, Prehistory (General), Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Romano British, Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Etymology
TDGNHAS Series III, 76 (2002), 91(1.97 MB)
Abstract
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 assumption that prehistoric farms and territories were d
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W.F. Cormack
Galloway - A Land Apart by Andrew McCulloch, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2000. A Review
Review, Roman and Romano British, Prehistory (General), Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Recent, Recent (Social), History
TDGNHAS Series III, 75 (2001), 188(1.92 MB)
Abstract
A review of Andrew McCulloch's 'Galloway - A Land Apart'. This new work assesses the history of Galloway as it affected all social strata, through the fresh and unrestrained eyes of a historian at the end of the 20th century. McCulloch successfully incorp
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G.W.S. Barrow
Drengs and Thegns Again. A Review
Review, Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Etymology, Anthropology
TDGNHAS Series III, 75 (2001), 185(1.92 MB)
Abstract
A review of Drengs and Thegns with particular reference to articles by M.Syrett (Drengs and Thegns Again, Saga Book of the Viking Society, 2000), W.F.Cormack (Drengs and Drings, these Transactions, III/74, 61-67) and J.G.Scott (The Partition of a Kingdom:
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G. Ewart
Dundrennan Abbey: Archaeological investigation within the south range of a Cistercian house in Kirkcudbrightshire
Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Post-mediaeval archaeology, Architecture
TDGNHAS Series III, 75 (2001), 159(1.92 MB)
Abstract
The remains of the south-west corner of the 12th-century Cistercian abbey cloister at Dundrennan (NX74924750) were cleared of rubble and 19th-century landscaping infill over four seasons of fieldwork. Elements of the Warming House, Novice's Day Room, Grea
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A. Breeze
Brittonic Place-names from South-West Scotland, Pt 2: Ptolemy's Abravannus, Locatrebe, Cumnock, Irvine and Water of Milk
Geography, Etymology, Roman and Romano British, Early Mediaeval
TDGNHAS Series III, 75 (2001), 151(1.92 MB)
Abstract
The Celtic place-names of south-west Scotland are a subject repaying investigation. This paper discusses five such names: Ptolemy's Abravannus, meaning 'very feeble one' and referring to Pilanton Burn, near Stranraer. A possible link between the Ravena Co
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Watt, J. Muir
William Galloway's Excavations at Whithorn, 1886-1897: Selections from Unpublished Correspondence in the Bute Muniments
Archaeology (General), Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), Antiquarian, Parish History
TDGNHAS Series III, 75 (2001), 133(1.92 MB)
Abstract
The important excavations at Whithorn, carried out during the 1880s and 1890s under the patronage of the Third Marquess of Bute, were unpublished at the time of the death, in 1897, of the architect in charge, William Galloway. The only published record of
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D.C. Cowley and K. Brophy
The Impact of Aerial Photography across the Lowlands of South-West Scotland
Prehistory (General), Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Romano British, Early Mediaeval
TDGNHAS Series III, 75 (2001), 47(1.92 MB)
Abstract
This paper reviews the results of aerial photographic recording of archaeological sites revealed by cropmarking in south-west Scotland. A consideration of patterns of visability and recovery provides a preamble to a review of the general trends this mater
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A. Breeze
Four Brittonic Place-names from South-west Scotland. Tradunnock, Trailflat, Troqueer and Troax
Etymology, Mediaeval, Early Mediaeval, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 74 (2000), 55(1.19 MB)
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J. MacQueen
Christian Celt. Messages and Images. (C. Thomas) A Review Article
Review, Early Mediaeval
TDGNHAS Series III, 73 (1998), 227(2.06 MB)
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W.F. Cormack
Excavations at Navan Fort 1961-71 (D.M. Waterman, ed. C.J. Lynn, Dept. of Environment for N.Ireland, Monograph 3, H.M.S.O.) A Review
Review, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Early Mediaeval
TDGNHAS Series III, 72 (1997), 119(1009.36 KB)
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A.E. Truckell
The Presence of the Past - Christian Heritage Sites in the Rhins of Galloway ( Fr. J. McLean) A Review
Review, Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Architecture, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 71 (1996), 168(2.35 MB)
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F. Hunter
Barhobble, Mochrum: Thermo-luminescence Determinations
Early Mediaeval
TDGNHAS Series III, 70 (1995), 94(1.21 MB)
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W.F. et al. Cormack
Barhobble, Mochrum - Excavation of a Forgotten Church Site in Galloway
Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Recent, Post-mediaeval archaeology, Etymology, Numismatics, Geology, Igneous geology, Roman and Romano British, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 70 (1995), 5(1.21 MB)
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O. Stewart and W.F. Cormack
The Present Botany of a Former Mediaeval Site - A Check-list of Plants at Barhobble, Mochrum
Botany, Mediaeval, Early Mediaeval
TDGNHAS Series III, 70 (1995), 1(1.21 MB)
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C. Cessford
The Borgue Armour and the Dumfriesshire Spangenhelm
Early Mediaeval
TDGNHAS Series III, 69 (1994), 73(2.36 MB)
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J. Williams
Notes on the Ruthwell Cross. Papers from a Colloquium sponsered by the Index of Christian Art, Princton University. (Ed. B.Cassidy) A Review
Early Mediaeval, Review, Parish History
TDGNHAS Series III, 68 (1993), 134(1.62 MB)
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