December
2014
SEASONS
GREETINGS
President’s Report
With another very successful season completed it is pleasant to reflect on many
good things that have happened at the Museum. First and foremost the success of
our free entry continues. This is thanks to great help and support from Johnston’s
of Elgin, Walkers of Aberlour and The Gordon & Ena Baxter Charitable Trust; but it
is also due to our stalwart team of Di and Heather promoting the museum among
the young and in particular among families. We made the last six of The Daily
Telegraph Family friendly museum awards. We did not win but, I believe, there
were over 800 entries and we were the only Scottish Museum in the final. A
commendable achievement. I have read the “feedback” and it is helpful and
interesting. Sadly some of the things they would like us to do are not practical.
Such as installing a lift! Impossible due to our listed building status.
Our preparations for the eventual delivery of The Dandaleith Stone are taking
shape and we should have it installed next year. The pictures of it show it to be a
remarkable find.
I continue to represent the Museum on the Castle to Cashmere proposals which
are part of the overall scheme to rejuvenate the town centre. I hope we see some
progress in 2015. I also attend The Elgin Fund as an ex-officio member and they
are taking an interest in The Cooper Park and how it could be enhanced. And to
add to all that I represent us on The Grant Lodge Short Working Life Group which
has met very regularly in 2014 and aims to establish a formal charitable trust
company before we reach 2015. I have been heartened by the enthusiasm and
determination of the group. A reinvigorated Grant Lodge can only be good for
Elgin Museum.
We have a series of most interesting lectures over the winter and I commend the
programme to you. I much enjoyed Janet Trythall’s talk on the Covesea
Lighthouse and the Stevenson family. I am a David West admirer and was
delighted to support the Lossiemouth Open Doors day which featured many of his
paintings.
We held the volunteers’ lunch recently and Bill Dalgarno rightly paid tribute to
everyone’s enthusiasm, hard work and patience. We would not be able to operate
the Museum without our volunteers and I add my personal thanks to Bill’s.
There have been changes at Moray Council. Alistair Campbell, who has been a
stalwart adviser, has retired. However we have already had good exchanges with
Reni Milburn who now looks after museums in a large portfolio. We welcome her
to the delights of Elgin Museum!
It has been a good season and I detect a happy one for all concerned. Planning
for 2015 has started already. Maybe you could think how you can help us?
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Grenville S Johnston
Hon President
‘Auctions, Antiques and Hidden Treasures’ & ‘Not the Antiques
Roadshow’
Firstly I would like to start by saying thank you to all involved from the Museum
and Moray Society sides of these events. As I told you all from the conception of
this idea, the success of these events rests solely on the organisation not with
what my team and I bring with us on the day. That said again the success was
easy for all to see with queues out the door!
Friday night’s rambling talk (as I happily term these) was great fun for me as the
speaker and the kind (and hopefully true) words after showed it seemed to have
struck a chord with attendees. It really was a strange feeling to realise that the
first time I ever spoke publicly was as part of the Discovery Club in the Museum,
perhaps 18 or even 20 years ago. Not just I, but everybody who came up with
kind words and recognition of those days perhaps won’t want to admit it is more
likely the latter date!
Thankfully as the crowd this time was much bigger than the first, and I am a little
more practised it was an evening I really enjoyed and hope the audience found
some tales of interest as well.
Saturdays’ ‘unknown’ of ‘Not The Antiques Roadshow’ (a fine title since one of
our team is a specialist on the show!) was always going to be a day of unknowns.
Firstly would anybody turn up??- a fear held by a few staff and volunteers. Our
fears were allayed by half past ten when the door was being opened to expectant
owners.
By 11am and opening time we had a queue, which throughout the day seemed
only ever to get longer and waiting times similarly. The good humoured visitors all
seemed thrilled to be in such a lovely surrounding while waiting and I did hear a
few comments by people who were new visitors to the museum that they all plan
to come back soon.
As ever these days the variety comes not just with the objects the people bring
but the stories they attach to them. Sadly not all stories proved the test of our
investigations with some family myths debunked but I think all who came left
knowing a little more, understanding their objects a little better and enlightened
on the – sometimes surprising - values.
Heather has asked for a few stories about the day but the blurred pace it went by
at I must admit to struggle to remember too much detail (5pm rolled around as if
it were lunch time). But perhaps the most local of stories was the collection of
fourteen items of Elgin silver all made by Joesph Pozzi. While I had hoped to see
items of Elgin silver I had not expected to see such an array of objects from soup
ladle to teaspoons and very interestingly all by the same maker. Why collect items
by one maker you may (and I did) ask; because he was a family member some
generations back!
Along with the usual high number of British and European ceramics we saw a very
interesting and high percentage of oriental pieces arriving at our tables. The
variety in age, style and values were as broad as perhaps we saw in any field. The
stories seemed to show the history of Moray natives out in the east on business or
building an Empire in the military.
With items from the smallest of farthings, to a three piece bedroom suite!!
(thankfully the owner only bringing a drawer and some photos), to Elgin silver
and an almost 200 year old autograph collection the day flew by and with great
excitement to all. Values were as varied from as little as a few pence to some
really exciting finds at many £1000’s of pounds!
It was lovely to see the hard work of the Society pay off and I trust that you
enjoyed the day as the team and I did.
From Theo, Kim, Steven and myself again thank you and we hope the events
were as great a success as we all felt they were.
Colin T. Fraser and team,
Lyon and Turnbull.
MUSEUM ASSISTANT UPDATE
Art Exhibitions
Five of Moray’s ‘Local Quines’ put together a really first class exhibition which was
received exceptionally well - as it deserved! The sum of £220 was raised for
Elgin Museum funds.
The 2015 season should open with a World War I related art exhibition by Primary
school children, followed by self taught artist Ian McArthur, then contemporary
artist Sherin Elhegazi who specialises in diptych acrylic paintings and a potential
gap (artist as yet to be confirmed). We will finish the year with Moray’s senior
schools participating in an art project for display during October 2015 – project
title to be confirmed.
For July, August and September, in the Main Gallery we are very pleased to be
able to host Alison Kinnaird’s glass installation, commemorating World War I,
“Unknown”.
Auctions, Antiques and Hidden Treasures Lecture & ‘NOT’ the Antiques
Road show drop-in with Lyon and Turnbull
Mary and I were delighted with the success of the Friday night talk by Colin Fraser
and the drop-in on Saturday 1st November proved to be extremely successful;
along with the raffle, we raised £725.50 for museum funds. We owe a big ‘thank
you’ to the generosity of Lyon and Turnbull who provided their expertise and
travel free of charge. It was lovely to see Colin, one of our ‘old boys’ from
Discovery Club, back in the Museum where his interest in antiques began.
Left to right: Steven Moore, Theo Burrell and Colin Fraser from Lyon and Turnbull with
members of the public and their Treasures at the ‘NOT’ the Antiques Road Show’ event.
Volunteer ‘Thank You’ party
Some of the 40 people who attended the volunteer get together
Myself, Bill and Mabel were able to say a big ‘THANK YOU’ to most of those who
have helped at the museum this last year, as 40 people managed to make it along
and very generously contributed some delicious treats to their own party! It was
lovely to be able to mingle with friends and thankfully my 3 jugs of inventive
cocktails disappeared before 2pm so they can’t have been too disastrous (thanks
to Milan for the ingredients!).
Above: Preparing cocktails, socialising and cocktails for sampling;
‘Leptopleuron Lacertium’, ‘Mr Ingram Special’ and a ‘Dandaleith Dandy’ .
Coracle Race
Charles Quinnell, presenter for BBC Alba successfully took part in the 5th
successive Tay Descent on 25th October 2014, navigating 23 miles in appalling
conditions in a replica Spey Coracle to raise money for Elgin Museum funds.
Another 2-3 paddlers from the Coracle Society paddled 7 miles to help raise
money for our museum. They can still be sponsored via The Coracle Society
Website or through ‘Just Giving’, although the latter only for a short period from
now.
Above: Charles Quinnell testing out a coracle
at the 2014 Portsoy Boat Festival.
Museum Shop
Tracy Metcalfe has taken a stock report for the end of season and will rethink
where we want to go next year, including any new stock that might be relevant
such as museum badges and Elginia masks!
Tracy hard at work, sorting out the shop stock record
Volunteer Training
I am happy to report that since the volunteer party I have trained 9 volunteers in
collection care and most have already had their hand to the grindstone since,
working on documentation of the collection.
Left: Working with volunteer Milan Ardis on the 1988 High Street Excavation finds
Right: Volunteers move the log boat from ready for the Dandaleith stone.
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Festival of Museums 2015
We did not put in an application for funding for 2015 as the deadline was 24th
November and we were not sure if we were likely to be able to retain Di Hannan
at that point. However, following discussion with Di, who, thanks to Heritage
Lottery funding, we now get to keep for another 2yrs (YIPPEE!!!). We think we
can do something medieval-related using what we already have in-house and with
items borrowed from elsewhere. This should generate significant interest but
without the need for external funding. Any ideas or volunteers available for
March, please get in touch.
Weddings in the Museum
Thanks to Mary Shand who has attended a number of wedding fairs to advertise
us as a venue, we had 2 unique weddings in the museum this year - Emma
Spackman to Colin McKillop and Katherine Kerugh to Simon Jack.
The Jack wedding with bridesmaids and Star-Wars multicoloured light sabres
to see the eclectic young couple on their way to wedded bliss.
Natural History Collection
Martin Cook, joint editor of ‘The Breeding Birds of North-East Scotland, and in
association with Bob McGowan, chairman of the British Ornithologists’ Union and
bird specialist at the National Museums of Scotland has spent many months
studying, cataloguing and finally deciding on the relevance of the stuffed-birds in
the collection of Elgin Museum. Unfortunately after many hours of deliberation,
research and discussion, disposal has been necessary for some of the birds which
have no provenance, were in a very sorry state and too poor for display and of no
use as a scientific record of the species. Permission for this disposal was agreed
at the last AGM. This has freed up a small amount of much needed space and
ensured that the collection that has been retained is relevant to the history of the
museum and adds to story rather than detracts. A number of other specimens
have been transported to NMS to add to their research record of British and
foreign birds.
Janet Trythall with a rather sad, faded, one eyed Kingfisher from Devon and Martin Cook
with a (once upon-a-time) black grouse selected for disposal.
Keith Bland, volunteer at NMS and a specialist in Lepidoptera spent 2 days in
December rationalising our insect collection to ensure that we retain good
specimens for use with schools and their ‘mini beast’ projects and for artists who
come to draw and/or paint them. Keith took specimens back to NMS which were
in good condition and/or had provenance and are of relevance for research
purposes and the remainder of the collection was necessarily (but somewhat
heart-breakingly) disposed of.
Keith Bland studies our collection of insects
Heather Townsend
Museum Assistant
Another round up of miscellanea from the Vice-president
Well, the second half of the season flew past probably as some of it I spent out of
the Museum – call it market research! And when we picked up a mooring for the
afternoon in the Sound of Sleat to visit a museum, our first impression was,
“Where’s the welcome we give in Elgin?”.
Lossiemouth and especially our own volunteer, Iona Kielhorn did a grand job in
September with Doors Open Day; The Moray Society still feels something of a
moral responsibility to see that DOD continues in Moray since our Civic Committee
relinquished the role. I especially enjoyed the opportunity to see round the
sewage works. Has anyone any suggestions for an organiser for 2015?
A welcome visitor was Neil Gordon, descendant of the Reverend Dr George
Gordon of Birnie, here to donate family portraits. We must find somewhere to
display at least the painting of George Gordon, archetypal Victorian polymath
minister, correspondent with Charles Darwin and THHuxley and a key activist in
the first seventy years of the Museum’s existence.
Work on revision of our Constitution continues. At the moment the ball is in the
court of the solicitors in Pitlochry; they have our responses to their long list of
consultation questions to inform a first draft, and we expect to have the document
ready for the AGM. The project is being funded through a Sustainability Grant
from AIM, the Association of Independent Museums. This also funded a very well
received free open evening: The Trustee Toolbox. More than thirty attendees,
from a wide range of local charities, enjoyed the presentation by our charity
specialist solicitor, and drinks and nibbles. Feedback was incredibly positive –
after all, it is not at face value, the foundation for a riveting evening.
The renewed interest in the Sculptor’s Cave, Covesea, led by Professor Ian Armit
and his assistant Dr Lindsey Büster, Bradford University, has been tremendously
satisfying for me personally with my special interest in the cave. It has been great
to be involved, including through sharing of the resource of our Museum. It looks
as if the child’s mandible (ELGNM 2007.35) donated in 2007, will soon be C14
dated to contribute to the story. The Data Structure Reports and raw find lists for
the excavations this summer make exciting reading and expand the already
known stories of excarnation at Covesea. Formal reports and hopefully further
excavation will follow. Meanwhile, Lindsey presented a paper at the European
Archaeology Association’s meeting in Istanbul in the session on “Caves as ritual
spaces in later prehistoric Europe”. From their scanning programme, a 3D model
is being made of one of our cut-marked vertebrae for a science festival in
Bradford, “Being Human”. Here are a couple of web links that might be of
interest:Rupert Chill and team carried out some musical experiments during the dig,
competing with the herring gulls and kittiwakes outside:
http://musicarchaeologyrecordings.wordpress.com/recordings/sculptors-cavecovesea-scotland/
After the dig, Channel 5 abseiled in (thanks to Mountain Guide Kevin Rutherford),
to kick off a series about “Underground Britain”.
http://www.channel5.com/shows/underground-britain/episodes/episode-1-683
Gordon Noble, Senior Lecturer at Aberdeen University made his annual visit to the
Museum with some 30 archaeology students and staff, primarily to study our
Kinneddar and Burghead stones which integrate with his Northern Picts project.
Leanne and Morag also had out a table of Treasure Trove acquisitions which
added an extra dimension to their visit. The afternoon continued with the trip to
the Sculptor’s Cave made more challenging than ever for some of the less nimble
because of the swell and algal froth among the beach boulders, but all
contributing to the sense of place inherent in a field trip.
Networking is often the best bit of museum sector meetings, the reward for
enduring the excruciating “breaking up into discussion groups”. Last week I spent
a day in Dundee at the RSS Discovery Centre, starting with a meeting of Museums
Galleries Scotland’s Recognition Fund, from which we benefit for the care of our
Recognised collection of fossils – currently Sue Beardmore’s year-long post. Such
a wide range of collections are Recognised: from Neil Curtis with the whole of
Aberdeen University’s collection and almost nowhere to display it since the loss of
the Marischal Museum, to Anstruther with their Fifie, Reaper with their news of a
successful grant application for a suit of sails to keep her sailing and the
associated skills alive.
Back-to-back was a meeting of the Museums Association, up for a Scottish visit. It
was useful to see how Elgin fits into the bigger picture. In a session on the
consultation for the revision of the MA’s “Code of Ethics” we learned more of the
background to the Northampton disgrace with their sale of the Sekhemka statue.
And it looks as if Di Hannan’s ongoing remit with outreach in its various senses
accords well with the MA’s vision that “Museums Change Lives”. Over a glass of
wine with the Chair, Sharon Heal, I was able to identify us as the Scottish finalists
in the family Friendly Museums contest!
A study day on conservation at Am Fasgadh, the Folk Museum at Newtonmore
was an eye-opener. They have a new fantastic purpose-built store with
laboratory, workshops and meeting rooms, and a wet-room shower, funded
through Highland Council from monies ring-fenced before “The Crash”. Heather
chose a 400 B.C Greek terracotta horse with headless rider for me to take for the
Bring-an-Object session and Milan now has the two pieces and the
recommendations of Jeanette Pearson, Inverness Museum conservator, for its
restoration. We have a visit arranged to the Geology store in Inverness as a follow
up.
To end, top activity for me was the afternoon spent in the North Store with
Heather looking for architectural stone. Key joys: we were almost undisturbed and
doing a task with museum objects. A bonus was finding a plaster cast of our
Burghead bull, Burghead 3. The question remains, why and by whom it was made
– all we know is it was donated by Alexander Junner in 1929. The paper work we
collated was a contribution to the project to rationalise our architectural stone,
timed particularly in advance of the visit by Rona Walker, Historic Scotland and
Mary Márkus, specialist carved stone consultant.
Janet Trythall
Vice President
Education and Outreach
December 2014
What a busy two years, where did the time go! Drop-in craft activities, object
handling sessions, family packs being trialled as well as the Telegraph ‘Family
Friendly Museums’ award ceremony to name a few events have led to the end of
the LEADER funding and the imminent arrival of Christmas. Lots of schools and
community groups have taken part in museum activities and outreach sessions,
with more enquiries for next year already being received.
With new funding from Heritage Lottery, I have already started work on the
‘Intergenerational’ activities based around the Incorporated Trades papers kept at
the museum, as well as the usual school activity sessions and holiday activities.
If anyone feels that they would like to come and help out at these sessions then
please feel free, more often than not the adults have more fun that the children!
Just a few of the people at one of our sessions this summer.
We have handling boxes and loans boxes for groups to use which have proved
really popular – especially the ‘Vikings’ box which schools seem to be fighting for
just recently – and hopefully we will have a children’s corner ready for the
museum opening next year that will encourage children of all ages to linger for
longer in the museum.
If you have any ideas/suggestions for activities or you would like to help next year
then please feel free to get in touch.
Finally, I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and thanks to all
who have helped out this year, especially Heather and Sue without whom I would
not have had nearly enough coffee/biscuits/listening ears and helpful ideas.
Di Hannan
Trustees' Toolkit
On Wednesday 22nd October, The Moray Society, thanks to funding from the AIM
Sustainability Fund, held a trustee training event which was open to all charity
trustees within Moray. While the event was primarily a training session for our
own trustees, we were delighted that we were also able to invite the many
organisations who took the chance to hear the excellent presentation from Colin
Liddell of Mitchells of Pitlochry, specialists in charity law. Colin gave a thorough
and comprehensive run through of the latest regulations as regards OSCR, HMRC
etc.
Colin Liddell giving his presentation
------------------------------------Testimonial
Below is a copy of a note left on the suggestions board in the Museum. As you
will see, it is written by Freda Matassa, author of “Museum Collections
Management”. Excellent unsolicited praise.
Moray Society Prize Draw
The Prize Draw has now been running for thirteen years and during that time has
diverted almost £14,000 into the Moray Society current account. This total
includes donations submitted through the Prize Draw fund but does not take into
account any further income accrued from Gift Aid generated by eligible donations.
This has been of considerable benefit to our daily running expenses and continues
to be so, given the huge inflationary price rises on all our utility bills
The price of the tickets remains unchanged and at present there are 93 tickets in
circulation at £10 each. These are all eligible for the 12 prizes during their lifetime
(1 year/4 draws with 3 prizes each).
If you are not attracted by those odds then remember that you can still help the
Society by purchasing one or more tickets in the sure knowledge that the only
winner can be the Society itself.
All income generated by the draw goes directly into Moray Society funds apart
from the prize money paid to the lucky winners.
Please address any questions or applications to me at the Museum (or email
mabritch@keme.co.uk, or tel 01309 673597)
Moray Society Prize Draw
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*I enclose my payment of £......
*Please forward me a standing order mandate
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Please address any questions or applications to me at the Museum (or tel 01309 673597).
Ritchie Mabon
Prize Draw Co-ordinator
Membership
Can I please make my annual plea to all members? It would be very helpful if all
members could check how much they are paying on their standing orders and, in
fact, to check that they actually are paying by standing order. There are some
who may think they are paying who are not. The current rates are given below
for all to check that they are paying the correct amount.
I will write to ‘defaulters’ at the beginning of next year to ask whether they wish
to remain as members. With the increased cost of admin, I am afraid we cannot
afford to provide, for example, newsletters to those who do not pay. I am sure
that, in the majority of cases, it is purely an oversight.
PLEASE, PLEASE CHECK.
Current rates are:
CURRENT SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Adult £25 (each member)
Family (up to 2 adults and 2 children) £40
Student (ES40 & under 18’s) £10
Corporate Membership £100
Bill Dalgarno
And now the end is near…..
The time has come for the Museum to close its doors for winter, and my job of
museum outreach project assistant is nearly over. My colleague Leanne and I
have for the past six months, been quietly working away in the East store
documenting, photographing, cataloguing and accessioning new objects (and
catching up with the inevitable backlog that comes from too much stuff and not
enough space) and it is with deep sighs that the crossing of t’s and dotting of i’s is
close to completion.
Our organised chaos has brought forth a veritable hoard of beautiful objects to go
on display, perhaps not quite not quite in the vein of the Viking hoard recently
found in Dumfries and Galloway, but still pretty exciting to look at and to imagine
the context of their story.
Some of the ‘new’ items include an inimitably wearable Iron Age glass bead
(Leanne’s favourite) which when lifted up to admire, reminds one of looking into a
sparkling spring sky, full of blue and white swirls of loveliness. This bead may
have been made by recycling Roman glass, which shows that up-cycling, is not a
new phenomenon.
My (current) favourite however, has been a hinged, late medieval zoomorphic
strap end, with a flexible terminal.
This beautifully crafted piece was probably used as a book clasp, attached to
leather straps which held the book shut, (maybe for a medieval lady’s girdle bookwell in my imagination it is!) but for me, what is most exciting about this
particular item, is the fact that it still works in the way it was supposed to (I was
so thrilled that I made a small video gently showing its flexibility). It has a
strange little face at the end of the terminal which almost looks as if it is softly
smiling and as an added bonus there is what appear to be the remnants of
pink/red enamelling, which seem to glitter under certain light….
For those of us who love to see how book clasps looked in their original settings
there are versions online at Pinterest. Indeed I was so enchanted; it nearly
overtook my love for old brooches….
http://www.pinterest.com/jillie1/clasps/
Both objects are relatively recognisable, (I concur that the bead is more quickly
recognisable than the book clasp) but they are something that people can connect
with; they have not become distorted out of recognition, nor has their purpose
shifted with the passage of time, their function remains relatively clear.
The recognition and connection to objects on display is not something that
happens with every item, for example, who knows what this object is and what is
its function?
There isn’t a prize for guessing, but you can smugly pat yourself on the back if
you do know…museum professionals/archaeologists need not apply (you know
who you are!)
It is still a crucial purpose of a museum to look at how objects are displayed and
interpreted, to recognise that meanings can change; that there are different
opinions and understandings when viewing objects; and how we can use our
collections to gain knowledge and in turn, cascade that knowledge to our
audiences in order to make their personal museum experience more rewarding
(apparently this has the specific term of ‘audience development’).
This particular issue of re-connecting with the objects on display is one the team
shall be mulling over for the next few months, who we are aiming our exhibitions
at and how displays relate to the viewer are questions we need to address in
order to communicate the story of Elgin and the people who lived, loved and died
here in a more meaningful way.
Finally, in October and armed with our lovely shiny new things and with Dave
Anderson’s archaeology toolbox, (a big thank you to Dave and to NADFAS) Di,
Leanne and I took part in a drop in session at the museum, taking charge of the
archaeology handling as a tie in with the Festival of Archaeology and our drop-in
guests got the first visitor viewing of the new objects that will go on display in the
springtime.
All the things Leanne and I have been part of this year have been exciting and
have given us a new perspective on how to engage with an audience on an
emotional as well as an intellectual level and one which we hope to bring forward
to 2015, but until then, for the next few weeks the work in the East store
continues.
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Morag and Leanne at the drop in session, October 2014
Morag MacDonald
Elgin Museum presents
Moray Geology: Past, Present,
Future
An exploration of the unique Devonian fish and
Permo-Triassic reptiles in Elgin Museum
Sat 21st- Sun 22nd March 2015
List of speakers includes:
Robert Davidson (University of Aberdeen)
Prof Nigel Trewin (University of Aberdeen)
Dr Nick Fraser (National Museum of Scotland)
Prof Michael Benton (University of Bristol)
Dr Sue Beardmore (Elgin Museum)
Dr Alison Wright (Highland Geological Society)
Dr Laura Säilä (University of Helsinki) and
Dr Neil Clarke (Hunterian Museum, Glasgow)
Registration £5; Fieldtrip £5
For further details or to register,
contact Dr Sue Beardmore at moraygeology2015@hotmail.com
Diary Dates
Tuesday 9th December
Management Committee meeting
10.30am
Tuesday 20th January
Moray Society Board meeting
5.30pm
Thursday 22nd January
My Year in Elgin Museum by Dr Sue Beardmore
2.00pm
Tuesday 10th February
Management Committee meeting
10.30am
Friday 27th February
Cromarty Medieval Burgh Project by Steve Birch
of West Coast Archaeological Services
7.30pm
March Date to be confirmed
Members’ visit to the Biblical Garden
Sat 21st and Sun 22nd March
Geology of Moray: Past, Present and Future
see separate advert
Monday 16th (2pm) & Tuesday 17th March (10am)
Volunteers’ Pre season Opening Meetings
Saturday 28th March
Museum Opening for Season
11.00am
Tuesday 14th April
Management Committee meeting
Moray Society Board meeting
4.00pm
5.30pm
Friday 24th April
Moray Society AGM
followed by
Talk on the Dandaleith Stone (to be confirmed)
6.30pm
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