Full 2013-14 programme - coming soon! Unless otherwise stated, meetings will be held on Tuesdays at 5.30pm in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, School of History, Classics and Archaeology) Semester 1-2, 2013-2014 Date Topic Speaker(s) Notes 1 Oct 2013 Towards an inclusive narrative: Roman material in the Later Irish Iron Age Jacqueline Cahill Wilson (Discovery Programme) 5 Nov 2013 Drink, Drink, Drink Jody Joy (British Museum) – cauldrons, Johnny Horn (Edinburgh University) – tankards 3 Dec 2013 Reconsidering the human colonisation of the Faroe Islands Mike Church (Durham University) 14 Jan 2014 Atlas of Hillforts Project Ian Ralston et al 4 Feb 2014 Turf architecture in the North Atlantic region in the 1st millennium AD: construction methods, archaeological analyses and interpretation Karen Milek (Aberdeen University) *11 March 2014 A Pictish phantasmagoria. (Joint meeting in Glasgow with the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies) Martin Cook (AOC) – recent work on Pictish barrows, Gordon Noble (Aberdeen University) – an update on Rhynie Venue: Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies at 3 University Gardens, Glasgow 1 April 2014 When is a crannog not a crannog? Excavations at the Black Loch of Myrton, Wigtonshire: Scotland’s first loch village Anne Crone and Graeme Cavers (AOC) Venue: Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton Tower 6 May 2014 Broxmouth and other hillforts Niall Sharples (Cardiff University) 24 June 2014 DAY SEMINAR:Reconsidering the Archaeology of the Early Church 09.00 - 18.00 Meadows Lecture Theatre * University of Glasgow map for the meeting on 11 March 2014 Previous events HTML FMS Events in 12/13 Date Title and speaker 2nd Oct. Tessa Poller Excavations -SERF hillfort programme: an interim view. Heather James -Castle Craig excavations: fort, broch and palisaded enclosure 6th Nov. Roman round-up Martin Cook: Camelon Geoff Bailey: Antonine Wall Dave Cowley: SW Scotland Paul Masser: Doune 4th Dec. Graeme Cavers, Andy Heald and John Barber: First Millennia Settlement Landscapes: recent investigations in Caithness 8th Jan. BOYD ORR, GLASGOW Alice Blackwell & Martin Goldberg: Early Medieval silver (TBC) 5th Feb. Unit round up Jennifer Proctor: Needles Eye enclosure, Berwick; Ross Murray: North Kessock Rob Engl: Beechwood 5th Mar. Elizabeth Schech & Martina Bertini - Glass Beads 2nd Apr. Early Medieval round up Ronan Toolis & Chris Bowles: The Galloway Picts Project: the excavation of Trusty's Hill Dave Sneddon: Glenshee excavations Gordon Noble: Rhynie 7th May. David Clarke -The contexts of sculptured stones 11th Jun. Day Seminar Meadows Theatre (TBC) Topic & Title to be confirmed FMS Events in 11/12 Date Title and speaker 4th Oct. Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances 1st Nov. 6th Dec. BOYD ORR, GLASGOW. Euan MacKie – Atlantic Iron Age pottery c.700 BC – AD 500: a brief overview. Iron Age Atlantic Scotland AND Orlene McIlfatrick – Looks aren’t everything: pottery manufacturing technology in Iron Age Atlantic Scotland 10th Jan. Kate Anderson – The weapons and warfare of northern Britain 7th Feb. Tanja Romankiewicz – Land, stone, trees, identity, ambition – what does it take to build a broch? 6th Mar. Martin Carver – Pitcarmick in context 3rd Apr. Dawn Gooney – Human Remains from the Knowe of Skea, Westray in the Orkney Islands 1st May. AOC/CFA – Recent work at Inveresk 5th Jun. Day seminar - details to be announced Further information Seminar organisers: Dave Cowley, Fraser Hunter & Rod McCullagh First Millenia Group blog This article was published on 2024-08-01
