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The Archaeology of Gardens in North-East Scotland. £3 entry.
Part of the King's Museum Tuesday evening lecture series, sponsored by the Elphinstone Institute.
Recent archaeological research into the 17th- and early 18th-century settings of some of our great houses has begun to shed much new light on the structure and detail of an extremely dynamic period of landscape design in northeast Scotland. Our understanding of what these landscapes were like is still rather 'broad-brush', so the insights offered by gardens archaeology are of great importance. In particular, we are discovering that there is much more physical evidence surviving than we perhaps suspected, whether buried beneath lush green lawns or simply neglected, standing out there in the countryside, waiting for someone to come along and really look at it. This lecture will explore a number of recent and current projects undertaken by the National Trust for Scotland which are providing exciting new information about our historic gardens and designed landscapes in the northeast.
Since 2001 Dr Shannon Fraser has been the National Trust for Scotland's Archaeologist for eastern Scotland, a position which involves conservation, interpretation and promotion of the cultural heritage assets on Trust properties from Inverness-shire to Fife. Prior to this she was the Director of the Council for Scottish Archaeology. An Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Aberdeen, Shannon is Convenor of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland's Research Committee. Her research interests focus on the interrelationship of the natural and cultural landscape and the human body, and on the materiality of the past; she has published on these themes in both prehistoric and modern contexts. She established the National Trust for Scotland's research excavations at a nationally important complex of early prehistoric sites on the Crathes Castle Estate in Aberdeenshire, and is currently engaged in programmes of research on late Renaissance lordly residences in their designed landscapes, and on 18th-century 'Sublime' landscapes in Scotland.Lectures are held at 7.30pm on Tuesdays. Where there is a charge, this should be paid on the door.
Please contact King's Museum if you have any questions or suggestions. Final details, changes and additions to the programme will be available at:
www.abdn.ac.uk/museum/lectures
- Speaker
- Shannon Fraser, National Trust for Scotland
- Venue
- MacRobert Building, Room 055
- Contact
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King's Museum 01224 274330