Tag: Archaeology
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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…
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Field School 2023: 3D Models and Reconstructions
Since the fieldwork season finished in August we’ve been hard at work preparing illustrations, processing our finds and samples and planning what our next season of fieldwork might look like. We’ve also been working with Robert Ferro, a University of Glasgow Undergraduate, to produce 3D printed models of our excavations areas, and we hope sometime…
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Publication Announcement
Based on surveys and excavations carried out as part of my PhD project ‘Repopulating the Braes: Shieling practice, upland seasonal industries and agricultural practice in post-medieval Scotland‘ I am excited to announce the publication of an account of the upland archaeology of Gleann Leac-na-Muidhe, Glencoe in the 2023 volume of the Proceedings of the Society…
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Field School 2023: Post-Excavation
In the last few weeks our team have been working on many aspects of the lab works and recording which occurs after an excavation. In our soil science labs Oscar and I have been supervising student volunteers in floating our soil samples and sorting the residue, with help from Aris Palyvos. With the help of…
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Field School 2023: Digital Model
A digital model of the excavations at the ‘Summerhouse of MacIain’ was produced by Cole Juckette (University of Glasgow) who provided a demonstration of photogrammetric modelling as an alternative way of recording archaeological sites to the field school participants on the excavation strand. The model, produced prior to the planning of the site with traditional…
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Field School 2023: Open Day
On Saturday 12th we ran an open day for local community members and visitors at the National Trust for Scotland Visitor Centre in Glencoe along with the NTS Archaeologist Derek Alexander. Our team having designed an audio-visual installation delivered this within the NTS turf house reconstruction where footage and audio recordings collected over the course…
Landscapes Of Glencoe And Rannoch Moor 