25 April 2018

‘Bringing a legacy project to publication - the Neolithic and Bronze Age Udal, North Uist’

Talk by Beverley Ballin Smith

Dingwall Lower Town Hall (note new venue for 2018 ARCH talks). Suggested donation £3

Iain Crawford was a controversial figure in Scottish Archaeology but his name will be forever associated with the Udal, North Uist. A team of specialists have been working on the smallest of his Udal sites and the book about the excavation and its results will be published early in 2018. Iain Crawford's achievements concerning the late Neolithic and Bronze Ages of this site, in the Western Isles, will be discussed.

25 April 2018

Understanding Runrig in the Northern Highlands

Talk by Malcolm Bangor-Jones

Burghfield House, Dornoch. Organised by UHI Centre for History. If you wish to join by videoconference, or if you have any questions, email historyevents@uhi.ac.uk

The paper will consider evidence for the operation of the runrig system in the north and its place within the farming community. It will explore attitudes towards runrig by estate managers, the disappear-ance of runrig, and its relationship with settlement patterns.