Keynote Speaker Dr Fraser Hunter, principal curator Iron and Roman Age Collections NMS
Wednesday 27 July 2016, 10:45 – 3pm, Inverness Town House
Dr Fraser Hunter, co-curator of The British Musem’s and National Museums Scotland’s joint exhibition Celts, will lead this day of talks and discussion with his keynote lecture ‘Celts: art and identity’.
He will explore the idea of Celts; a potent, popular and extremely varied one, applied to many different types of evidence in different contexts and will also consider what different “Celtic arts” tell us about connections and differences across Europe, placing Scottish evidence into a wider context.
Dr Hunter will be joined by Highlan
d archaeologists Steven Birch and Mary Peteranna.
Steven Birch will give a talk entitled: ‘A Sense of place: constructing memories and shared identities at the High Pasture Cave Complex, Skye’. He will share from his experience as Director of excavations at a site that has produced a rich and complex assemblage of artefacts, most of which relate to activities undertaken in peoples’ daily lives as well as inviting us to understand the wider importance of this material in developing theories about places of power that were integral to the development of complexity, territoriality and group identity amongst people who practiced ‘Celtic arts’.
Mary Peteranna’s talk ‘Looking inside and outside of Craig Phadrig Hillfort, Inverness’ will reveal insights discovered during her recent fieldwork at this iconic site, a prominent landscape feature, long associated with the Fortress of King Brude of Picts, mentioned in Adomnan’s Early Medieval Life of Saint Columba. She will place the site in context with other similar forts in East Scotland such as Finavon, Dunnideer and Tap o’ Noth and review the structural and artefactual evidence for occupation and re-occupation in periods associated with the art of Celts.
£9 including lunch. Booking is essential, in person at Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, call 01463 237114 or email [email protected]
