Joseph Anderson
| Joseph Anderson | |||||
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| Born | 1832 | ||||
| Died | 1916 | ||||
| Residence | Wick, Caithness | ||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
A5 7 Joseph Anderson (ASL Local Secretary, Orkney Islands), John O’Groats Journal Office, Wick, 7 Apr. 1865 – proofs of Report [on ancient remains of Caithness]; skeletal material sent from Kettleburn and the Camster cairn; see JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cxxxi-vi, cxxxix-clxx; and ‘Report on excavations in Caithness cairns, conducted for the Anthropological Society of London by Messrs J. Anderson and R.I. Shearer, in 1866’ by Joseph Anderson, MASL, vol. 3, 1867/9, pp. 216-42; and p. 243, ‘Note on a skull from the cairn of Get, Caithness, discovered by Joseph Anderson’ by C. Carter Blake
A5/8 Ibid., 28 Sep. – Mr Dunnet’s relics sent to ASL; mound near Keiss Bay similar to Birkle Hill; excavating cairn at Camster
9 Ibid., 3 Apr. 1866 – doubts as to Samuel Laing’s reliability on the Keiss site, 8 pp.; see ‘On some ancient shell-mounds and graves in Caithness’, JASL, 1864, pp. xx-xxxviii in Anthrop. Rev. vol. 3, 1865
10 Ibid., 11 Apr. – despatch of skull described by Dr Banks; skull and pelvis sent; hopes to obtain proofs of articles in John O’Groats Journal
11 Ibid., 12 May – corrects an error in his ‘Report’
12 Ibid., 20 June – acknowledges £10 grant; outlines possible future plans (letter incomplete)
13 Ibid., 13 Aug. – acknowledges proofs of his ‘Report’; John Cleghorn and R.I. Shearer expecting copies of the J. Anthrop. Soc. London containing their Keiss papers; skulls not yet sent. 6 pp. see ‘A new reading of shell mounds and graves in Caithness’ and ‘On human remains at Keiss’, JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cxxxix-Catalogued, clvii-clxiii respectively
14 Ibid., 18 Aug. – proofs sent
Notes From Elsewhere
He was born at Arbroath in 1832...Joseph received
his earliest education in the parish school of St Vigeans, and in 1844 went to the newly-founded
Arbroath Educational Institution. From 1852 to 1856 he taught in the East Free School, Arbroath,
and in the latter year married Jessie Dempster...At the time of his marriage he was living in Union Street,
Arbroath, but in the same year (1856) he removed to Constantinople, where he taught in the
English School at Hasskeui until 1859, returning to Scotland in 1860 to become editor of the
Wick-based John-of-Groats Journal. Whether or not as a consequence of contact in Turkey
with remains of Classical antiquity, on his return to Scotland he embarked on his archaeological
career, residence in Wick permitting him to study prehistoric remains in Caithness and to
excavate some of the local chambered cairns in association with the Anthropological Society
of London. His work in this field must have given convincing proof of his capacities, as
in 1866 the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland nominated him a Corresponding Member,
and in 1869 appointed him Keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities and its own Assistant-Secretary and Editor of its Proceedings.2 The last of these posts he retained until the
year of his death (1916), but the two former he demitted in 1913.
Publications
External Publications
On the Horned Cairns of Caithness: Their Structural Arrangement, Contents of Chambers, &c Author Joseph Anderson Published 1868
The Orkneyinga Saga
edited by Joseph Anderson
House Publications
Report on the Ancient Remains of Caithness, and Results of Explorations, Conducted, for the Anthropological Society of London ... in 1865
Volume 2 of Memoirs of the Anthropological Society of London
on horned cairns
