In just under three years time GAS will be celebrating its sesquicentennial: one hundred and fifty years of lectures, publications and excursions. The Council is looking at a number of ways of celebrating this anniversary (e.g. a themed lectures series, excursions, special publications, an exhibition) and has begun to organise and prepare for the proposed events, though they are only possibilities at present.
Members will be saddened to learn of the death of William Graham Jardine known to all (except perhaps the medical profession!) as Graham, and he will be fondly remembered as a Past-President of the Society and for the contribution of his Geological discipline to Archaeology.
Read more: In memoriam: William Graham Jardine – 13 March 1927 – 15 May 2014
Strathclyde Park | Lead Mining Museum, Wanlockhead | Drumlanrig Castle | Saturday, September 12th, 2015 | £32 (£30 concession)
For Glasgow Archaeological Society's second summer excursion we will be visiting three different sites on Saturday, 12 September 2015.
Read more: Second Summer Excursion – Saturday, 12th September 2015
Image by Elena Gabrielli
Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery | Saturday, August 29th, 2015 | 11am-3pm | FREE
The Treasure Trove Unit, from the National Museums of Scotland, will be hosting a Treasure Trove Finds Day at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum on Saturday, August 29th, 2015 from 11am until 3pm.
Read more: Treasure Trove Finds Day at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum
By Stephen Stockdale
I thought I knew the Clyde estuary; I mean I had sailed down the river from the Broomielaw all the way to Ireland and up and down the upper reaches several times, but Newshot Island? Never heard of it! In fact, Newshot Island didn’t start out as an island at all, but, more of that later.
The Dalrymple Lectures
16th-19th November 2015
Each year the Dalrymple Lectures hosts a number of lectures on topics of historical and archaeological interest from a guest speaker, and recent speakers for the lecture series have included Lord Colin Renfrew, Dr. Chris Stringer, Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe, Professor Ian Hodder, Professor David Breeze and Professor Andrew-Wallace Hadrill.
