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RITUAL LANDSCAPE SEMINAR PROGRAMME
Saturday, May 31, 2003

Chair: Tom Hassall, OBE, President of ICOMOS-UK

9.30 Welcome

9.40 Dr Julie Gibson, County Archaeologist, Orkney Islands: Ritual Landscapes of Orkney
10.00 Dr Eeva Ruoff, Helsinki University of Technology: Ritual Landscapes of Finland
10.20 Discussion

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Dr Sally Foster, Historic Scotland: Managing a Ritual Landscape
11.20 Dr Michael Selwood, University of Lancaster: The Landscape in Ritual
11.40 Dr Axel Mykleby, President ICOMOS Norway: Landscape in Waves
12.00 Discussion

12.30 Lunch

2.00 Dr Lester Borley, CBE: Pictish Stones: ritual fragments from the Dark Ages
2.20 Dr Britt Mari Hammarskiold: The spiritual, ritual and intangible dimensions of cultural landscapes of the southern Öland and Lapponia, Sweden
2.40 Edward Fawcett OBE: Dowsing in the Ring of Brodgar
3.00 Discussion & Conclusions

3.30 Tea

THE SEMINAR IS OPEN TO ALL - Day tickets £30

Tickets are available from the Stromness Hotel.

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