We are researchers based at the University of Glasgow, interested in exploring the landscapes of Glencoe and Rannoch Moor through archaeological, environmental and creative approaches.
Activities
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Summer Season 2024: Get Involved!
As part of our Glencoe Field School, in collaboration with the National Trust for Scotland, we will be hosting drop-in site tours at our excavations at Achnacon between the 13th-23rd June, as well as a host of opportunities to find out more about our work and get involved! To visit the site you can park…
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SGSAH Earth Scholars 2024
This week we hosted an exciting workshop event with visiting international and Scotland based scholars as part of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities Earth Scholarship, funded by the British Council Scotland. The Glencoe and Rannoch based workshops were hosted by Dr Michael Given, Prof. Nicki Whitehouse and Prof. Ingrid Mainland (UHI), Lizzie…
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Glencoe Field School 2024
In February Lizzie Robertson and I spent a week in Glencoe scoping out features and sites to excavate as part of our 2024 Glencoe field school (#Glencoe2024) as well areas of the landscape where survey would add to our understandings of land use in the glens post-medieval past. With the construction of the first stretch…
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Artefact Handling Workshop
On the 9th February 2024 we hosted the Association of Certified Field Archaeologists (ACFA) at the Molema Building for an artefact handling workshop. The ACFA team joined Arianna Magyaricsova and myself for an artefact handling session with the finds from our Glencoe 2023 field school at the Summerhouse of MacIain. ACFA members visited our excavation…
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Find Study: The Pipes
A fascinating assemblage of clay pipe fragments were uncovered over the course of our excavations in Gleann Leac-na-Muidhe in 2023 spanning the 17th-19th centuries. This blog post will explore a few that tells us exciting insights into those who would have spent time at the ‘summerhouse’ both in the 17th century during its use as…
Landscapes Of Glencoe And Rannoch Moor 