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Starts: 09:00
Ends: 17:00
One day conference in Inverness
HIGHLAND ARCHAEOLOGY FESTIVAL 2024 CONFERENCE
Saturday 5th October 2024
Chair: Lachlan McKeggie, Highland Archaeology Services
09:00 – 09:30 Registration / tea and coffee / browse the display stands
09:30 – 09:35 Introductions and Housekeeping
09:35 – 10.00 PALaEoScot: New approaches to Scotland’s elusive Palaeolithic Past
Professor Kate Britton, University of Aberdeen
10.00 – 10:25 The Prehistory of Dornoch – title TBC
Callum Murray and Fiona Jackson, AOC Archaeology
10:25 – 10:55 Recent Highland roundhouses and the use of micromorphology
Lynne Roy, AOC Archaeology
10.55 – 11.10 Discussion and questions
11.10 – 11.30 Break – Tea/Coffee
11:30 – 11:55 Putting Cadboll in Context. An update excavation of medieval middens and ?early structures identified at Hilton of Cadboll
Cathy MacIver, AOC Archaeology
11:55 – 12:20 Historylinks Extension: extending Dornoch's links to its history
Lynne McKeggie, Highland Archaeology Services
12:20 – 12:45 Challenging Expectations: Excavations of a Vernacular Building in Caithness
Stuart Munro, AOC Archaeology
12:45 – 13:00 Discussion and questions
13:00 – 14:20 Lunch / browse the display stands / poster sessions
14:20 – 14.45 Conflict Archaeology at Culloden: Engaging Communities in Culloden’s Story
Derek Alexander and Ellen Fogel Walker, National Trust for Scotland
14:45 – 15.10 Shepherds' houses in the Northwest Highlands Malcolm Bangor-Jones
15.10 – 15.35 Glen Drynoch: the evaluation of vernacular architecture dating to the post medieval period on the island of Skye
Steven Birch, West Coast Archaeological Services
15.35 – 15.55 Break – Tea/Coffee
15:55 – 16.20 Andrew Maitland Tain Architect - A Highland Legacy Richard Littlewood, Tain Civic Trust 16.20 – 16.45 The Highland HER: Further adventures in Space and Time (or down the rabbit hole again…) Ian Scrivener-Lindley, HER Officer, Historic Environment Team, Highland Council 16.45 – 17.00 Final discussion and questions. CLOSE