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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
Saturday, 30th May 2015 | Walk around Glasgow’s West End | 10.30am
Members should meet outside the entrance to Kelvinbridge Underground Station, Great Western Road at 10.30am.
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.
First Summer Excursion | Weekend Trip | Perthshire | Saturday, 9th May – Sunday, 10th May 2015
David Strachan, Regional Archaeologist for Perth & Kinross, will be our guide during the weekend trip in May, when we shall visit a number of Pictish sites in the area.