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Subject:        Mapping and Antiquities in Scotland seminar - booking deadline
Date:   Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:33:36 +0100
From:   Fleet, Christopher <[log in to unmask]>
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Although announced back in July, there are just a few places still
available for the Scottish Maps Forum seminar on:

Mapping and Antiquities in Scotland

Tuesday 27 October 2009, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.

...and the deadline for booking places is 2 October.

The programme is as below with further details and a booking form at:
http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subjectinfo/2009-seminar-leaflet.pdf

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PROGRAMME
10.00-10.30 REGISTRATION & COFFEE
10.30-12.30 MORNING SESSION Chaired by Prof Charles Withers

* Dr Matthew Shelley,    Pont's crannogs: the maps of Pont and Blaeu as
a source for archaeological research into Scottish freshwater loch
settlements
* Steve Boyle (RCAHMS),  Estate surveys of the 18th century and their
value for present day archaeological research
* Dr Yolande Hodson,     William Roy and his Military Antiquities of the
Romans in North Britain

12.30-13.45 LUNCH & Exhibition of Antiquities on Maps

13.45-16.30 AFTERNOON SESSION

* Prof David Breeze,   The Antonine Wall World Heritage Site
* John Poulter,        Roman surveyors of the Antonine Wall
* Prof. Lawrence Keppie
(Hunterian Museum),    Early mapping of the Antonine Wall
* Dr Rebecca Jones and
Peter McKeague (RCAHMS), Mapping Matters with the Antonine Wall

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Chris Fleet
National Library of Scotland
33 Salisbury Place
EDINBURGH
EH9 1SL
United Kingdom.

Tel. 0131 623 3973
Fax. 0131 623 3971
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

View maps website: http://www.nls.uk/maps

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