The Hunterian

Saturday 8 March 2014
10.00am - 1.00pm

This half-day course is in tandem with the Scottish gold exhibition at the Hunterian Art Gallery. Based around the exhibition themes, the course will look in more detail at various aspects of gold in Scotland, including the geology of gold, its occurrence in Scotland, the history of mining, working and using gold in Scotland from archaeological pre-history, to the present day, and its role in Scottish history and culture.

Programme:

10.00 Introduction

10.15 Dr. John Faithfull, Curator of Mineralogy, The Hunterian - The Natural History of Gold

11.00 Dr Alison Sheridan, Principal Curator of Early Prehistory, National Museums of Scotland - Scottish Archaeological Gold

11.30 Coffee (and the chance to look at a range of gold-related geological and other specimens)

12.00 Dr Neil Clark, Curator of Palaeontology, The Hunterian - The Scottish Gold Rushes

12.30 Dr John Faithfull - Finding and Mining Gold

1.00pm - Finish.

For further information, or to book visit:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/centreforopenstudies/howtoenrol/

Course number 19051

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First published: 5 March 2014