Tag: Field School
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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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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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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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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: 17/08/23 – 18/08/23
Today our teams enjoyed their last full day in the field before we begin backfill on the 18th. In the excavation team we worked through the remaining records sheets and completed plan drawings for the entire excavation area. Soil samples were taken for micromorphology and phytolith Analysis. We also welcomed a visit by ACFA members…
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Field School 2023: 16/08/23
Today our team was busy across the Glencoe and Rannoch landscapes. Our excavation team began the recording of our excavation site with a photomodel being produced by Cole Juckette which required no small amount of bailing of the trenches by our valiant dig team. Afterwards Sean and Amy completed a section drawing of our area…
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Field School 2023: 15/08/23
Today our dig team continued excavation in the structure in Gleann Leac-na-Muidhe. Our sondage in the central trench area uncovered evidence of the short occupation span of the structure, with no earlier floor layers lying beneath the slab floor. Meanwhile the survey team investigated the area around Lairig Gartain and Queenshouse, and our digital team…
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Field School 2023: 14/08/23
Our team began the first of three days in their ‘skill strand’ groups, dedicated to further exploration of the methods of their chosen area of practice – survey, excavation or digital and creative media. Our survey team went out to Rannoch Moor to carry out an auger survey around the River Etive to prospect for…