Andrew Nicholson is the regional archaeologist for Dumfries and Galloway, having first come to the area in 1986 to work on the excavations at Whithorn. His interests include early medieval Galloway, experimental archaeology and military history.
In Southern Scotland archaeology relating to the sixth century is remarkably hard to pin down with any degree of certainty, most sites falling into the catch-all of ‘early medieval’. This presentation examines the extant material and asks where we should be looking for archaeological evidence to elucidate this formative period.
