In 2024 we will be returning to Glencoe for the second season of our field school in this landscape.
In collaboration with the National Trust for Scotland Archaeology and Glencoe and Dalness Teams we will be excavating a variety of structures and features relating to subsistence practices at the settlement of Achnacon. This will involve trial trenching at a few of the byrehouse structures, as well as investigations of areas of rig and furrow, a corn drying kiln and possible kailyard.
Our survey team will be working on this theme of settlement archaeology and subsistence, carrying out walkover survey and recording of features related to the settlements of Achnacon, Achnambeithach, Achtriochtan, Stroan and around the summerhouse site in Gleann Leac-na-Muidhe.
Our digital and creative media team will work with the NTS and Glencoe Folk Museum to explore new interpretative media for our partner institutions. This will involve elements of audio-recording, film-making, and other forms of creative practice.
We will be hosting an open day event at the NTS reconstructed turf house on the 22nd June with artefact handling and family craft activities with the NTS and Glencoe Folk Museum teams, site tours and more!
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In August 2023 we carried out our inaugeral field school season in Glencoe for University of Glasgow Archaeology students.
Between the 7th-19th August a team of 16 students assisted in the excavation of a byrehouse structure in Gleann Leac-na-Muidhe, associated with MacIain, chief of the MacDonalds of Glencoe in 1692. we also conducted a walkover survey of the passes to the East of Glencoe at Làirig Èilde and Làirig Gartain, to explore the medieval Royal Hunting Forest and coffin road associated with this area, and Dalness in Glen Etive. You can find out more about the 2023 season of excavations here.
An auger survey of an area of blanket bog to the East of Buachaille Etive Mòr was carried out to identifying an area with an undisturbed peat record for the last 1000 years for future peat coring.
As part of the field school students also had the opportunity to explore the production of creative media for public engagement – working with Dr Gareth Beale, Dr Nicole Smith and Lizzie Robertson to produce sound and visual installations for our open day and future engagement events, and to engage with the collections of the Glencoe Folk Museum.
You can find out more about this project on our blog, or in the outputs section of this site.
Landscapes Of Glencoe And Rannoch Moor 