Category: Carved Stones
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Probative Quarters in Cupar
The final post in the series on Alfred Huhnhäuser’s photographic archive is coming soon, but in the meantime here’s a lighter one – the fruits of some field work in Fife over the weekend. Part of my preparatory work for the first volume of the Scottish Corpus of Carved Stones (which may or may not…
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Post-Book Pleasures
One of the nicest things about having submitted my book manuscript has been the suddenly-restored space in which to simply read, think, and tentatively write about new ideas. I’m already working on my latest research project – a study of carved stones in Scotland – but that’s both long-term and expansive in its remit, so…
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Conference Season
It’s the middle of conference season, at least for me. While the book continues to occupy most of my time, I’ve also been busy with a few papers which I hope might be interesting and indicative of some of the new directions in which my research has been moving. If you’re there anyway, you might…
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Kayaking and Epigraphy: A Match Made in Heaven?
A few months ago, the Historian and I were on holiday in Mull, bouncing along sheep-strewn single-track roads in our aging but faithful Honda Jazz in search of whatever antiquities we could find. We found plenty, including a possibly unrecorded boat graveyard, dozens of pre-Clearance settlements, and a Victorian country house with a particularly delectable…
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Mural Monuments in Crail
I’ve been interested in the remarkable early modern epigraphic landscape of Crail kirkyard (in the East Neuk of Fife) for about as long as I’ve been interested in carved stones. A while ago I wrote a small piece on Crail, comparing its carved stones with analogous wooden relics for the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework, and…
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The Future of Early Modern Scottish Studies
What a great conference! I probably shouldn’t say that quite so unreservedly, given that I was one of the organisers, but last weekend’s conference on “The Future of Early Modern Scottish Studies” really did exceed all expectations. Over two days we had twenty-two speakers from across Europe and America, two roundtable discussions, five debate-filled coffee…
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Lightning Talk on Carved Stones
It’s always nice to discover recordings of talks you forgot had ever been recorded. Point yourself in this direction for a four-minute lightning talk from last year answering the question, “why am I spending so much time wandering the countryside looking for carved stones”? Dr Kelsey Jackson Williams Copyright © 2016 Kelsey Jackson Williams
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Stravaigin: Innis Bhuidhe, Killin
The highland village of Killin is bisected by the River Dochart which splits just below the old bridge there to form an island: Innis Bhuidhe (“yellow island” in Gaelic). Last week the Historian and I were in Killin. Having obtained the gate keys from the local librarian, we made our way onto the island itself,…
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