Tag: Engagement
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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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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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HAF 2023 Conference
On the 7th and 8th October Edward Stewart and Elizabeth Robertson from our team attended the Highland Archaeology Festival Conference in Inverness (braving the weekends storms) to present research on Glencoe at this community conference. Presenting on the results of upland surveys in Gleann Leac-na-Muidhe, and his shieling excavations of 2021 and 2022, and preliminary…
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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…