December's lectures from two GAS members...
Announcing the GAS lecture programme for 2020-2021...
Our visit to the Royal Kingdom of Fife, began at the Abbey which was founded by Queen Margaret of Scotland and was established as a great Benedictine abbey by her son, David I in 1128. It is the final resting place of some of Scotland’s greatest medieval monarchs.
The Must Farm Settlement was first discovered in 1999, revealing the remains of an exceptionally well-preserved Late Bronze Age settlement in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire.
In September 2014 metal detectorists working on land in Galloway discovered the largest hoard of Viking objects found in Scotland for over 150 years, and called in the Council’s archaeologist to excavate it.
Read more: GAS Lecture: Excavating the Galloway Viking Hoard
Despite the propaganda of invincibility, Germany under the National Socialists, 1933-1945, did take defensive precautions against war. This is the story of the elaborate complex constructed in 1939 in Nuremberg, which successfully preserved the City’s art and historic treasures.
Read more: Presidential Lecture: The Art Bunker in Nuremberg
On May 24th 2014, the Glasgow School of Art suffered a devastating fire, which rose from basement to the second floor roof, and destroyed, almost completely, one of the "finest rooms in the world"...
Read more: February's Lecture: Reconstructing Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art
Following an international appeal to raise the £1.98 million needed to secure the Galloway Hoard for the National Museums Scotland (NMS) on behalf of the nation, the target has been reached with two weeks to spare before the deadline.