First Millennia Studies Group

The First Millennia Studies Group is a discussion forum for all aspects of archaeology in the first millennia BC and AD. There is no geographical limit but the majority of discussions centre around Scotland, although one of the major contributions of the FMSG is the ability to provide the wider context for more focused investigations.

The FMSG is open to anyone interested in the time period and the theory and methodology being employed in its research; anyone wishing to be added to the email circulation list should contact Rod McCullagh ( contact details below), and anyone with a potential topic to contribute can contact any of the co-organisers.

To be held on Tuesdays at 5.30pm in the Lecture Theatre, University of Edinburgh Archaeology Department High School Yards, Edinburgh and also one in the Boyd Orr building lecture theatre B, University of Glasgow (adjacent to Archaeology Department); inquiries to roderick.mccullagh@scotland.gov.uk

Programme 2009-2010

6 October	TBA	TBA
3 November	James Bruhn	Negotiating Frontiers: Modeling the Impact of the Roman Occupation on the Social Landscape of Southern Scotland
1 December	Euan MacKie	Clickhimin and the oldest brochs, or how a heap of rubble changed everything
12 January	Nick Hodgson	The Iron Age on the Northumberland coastal plain: new discoveries and perspectives
3 February	Katherine Forsyth	The Insular epigraphy in the Fifth-to-Seventh centuries AD: Observations and speculations (or Celtic inscriptions as crisis symptom)
2 March	Chris Barrowman (Boyd Orr, Glasgow)	Almost the Iron Age – palimpsest landscapes in Ness and their role in interpreting the past
6 April	Steven Birch	TBA
4 May	Alice Blackwell	TBA
8 June	DAY SEMINAR –- details to follow

The FMSG is entirely voluntary and operates with the kind support of the University of Edinburgh Archaeology Department, the National Museums of Scotland, the RCAHMS and Historic Scotland.

Rod McCullagh	Roderick.McCullagh@scotland.gov.uk
Fraser Hunter	f.hunter@nms.ac.uk
Dave Cowley