Robert Munro (archaeologist)

[2] He was born on 21 July 1835 at Assynt in Rossshire, and educated at Kiltearn Free Church School, and at the Royal Academy in Tain.

[3] He studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MA in 1860 and MB ChB in 1867.

[3] He worked as a General Practitioner in Kilmarnock until 1886, when he turned his whole attention to archaeological research.

[4] He was a member of many learned societies at home and abroad and published several books on the subjects of his research.

[3] His proposers were Rev John Duns, Sir Arthur Mitchell, Alexander Buchan and Ramsay Heatley Traquair.

Stained glass of Dr Robert Munro FRSE in Scottish National Portrait Gallery
An illustration from Monro's Palæolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe of a bronze celt (a prehistoric, chisel-bladed tool), a bronze and bone awl, and a variety of objects used either as beads or as spindle whorls .