This blog is more or less a transcript of a talk I gave last weekend at the Highland Archaeology Festival in Inverness. It was a great conference and it was wonderful to meet so many people in person! Thanks very much to Grace from Highland Historic Environment Record for inviting
Details of upcoming talks I'm giving about my PhD research into the early church in the Moray Firthlands, Scotland.
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In which I investigate three intriguing places named in the tenth-century Life of St Cathroe.
In which I try to figure out what a place-name mentioned in 1150 actually meant
In which I propose that the place-name ‘caput regionis’ referred to Kinneddar in Moray
In which I suggest a link between ‘carden’ names and early medieval hunting grounds
In which I analyse Adomnán's Life of St Columba for overlooked clues to the location of the stronghold of Bridei mac Mailcon, King of Picts.
In which I examine the possible significance of 'David' sculpture in the Moray Firthlands
In which I consider what these names might tell us about early medieval settlement along a stretch of the River Nairn
In which I present the findings of my MA research in a 60-minute talk
In which I take a new look at this puzzling place-name, and come to an unexpected conclusion.