You can check out some of the findings from our 2024 and 2025 seasons at Achnacon on Digging for Britain now via BBC IPlayer. Their team joined us this summer to explore our exciting findings which shed new light on life before and after the Glencoe Massacre of 1692. Tori from Digging for Britain, does a wonderful job drawing out the theme of memory from our work, from the agency of objects connecting Glencoe to the world, and carrying meaning as heirlooms, to material connected to the massacre, to the realities of how people returned to the glen, made sense of and remembered those traumatic events.
This theme of memory wraps through the episode, from explorations of gravegoods at an immense Roman Cemetery led by Cotswold Archaeology, to investigations of the Bradford Empire Exhibition, onwards to the contemporary.
The episode ends with a piece on our sister fieldschool project at Glencoe, directed by Dr Kenneth Brophy and Kieran Manchip from Archaeology Scotland which explored the forgetting and remembering of the 1970s Kelvin Wheelies Skatepark in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Park.
If you’ve not seen it yet we heartily recommend giving the episode a watch!
Post by Dr Edward Stewart
Leave a Reply