This is a past event
Part of the King's Museum lecture programme
In a lecture of three parts, Beverley Ballin Smith, Archaeological Consultant and Researcher, will be exploring who Iain Crawford was, why he began digging and researching in North Uist on the Udal 50 year ago, and what his achievements were. She also be giving a brief archaeological account of the main sites comprising the project and the finds that were recovered due to the techniques of excavation used, developed and experimented on by Crawford, touch on work over the last few years on the archive and what she and her colleagues have accomplished. The presentation will end with an assessment of Iain Crawford's life work.Beverley worked with the original NoSAS with John Hedges on Orkney and also in Shetland - working on the brochs of Howe and Gurness. She has always had a special interest in refitting archaeological evidence together to make the 'story' of sites, and worked with Dr Barbara Crawford OBE on the Norse/medieval site of the Biggings, Papa Stour, Shetland to bring that to publication. Her archaeological experience extends to excavating in the Faeroes, Denmark, Norway and Sweden
She worked on a wide variety of commercial and research projects in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with GUARD, University of Glasgow until 2011 as a project manager. She had the responsibility of bringing projects, including large multi-period sites authored by others to publication through the post-excavation process, including Midross, Loch Lomond and Dun Eistean, Lewis, which hopefully will come out as books next year.
She worked with Iain Crawford his Udal project, one of the largest unpublished Scottish sites, ten years ago. The Udal is the subject of her lecture.
She teaches courses in History and Archaeology, and Historical Geography at the Scottish Rural University College, Ayr campus. She is editor of a new internet publication ARO (Archaeological Reports Online). She serves as a council member of the Institute for Archaeologists and Honorary Vice Chair for Outreach; she is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and councillor and Vice Chair of this Society.
Entry is free and open to all.
- Speaker
- Beverley Ballin Smith, National Museums Scotland
- Hosted by
- Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
- Venue
- New King's, room 10
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