Tag: Workshop
Archaeology, Gaelic and the Glencoe Landscape: A workshop with An Lochran
We had a lovely night at the An Lochran centre in Partick, Glasgow, exploring the results from our recent excavations in Glencoe and how Gaelic – through placenames, storytelling and song – can contribute to our understandings of these landscapes and help us tell new stories! The session began with an introduction to Glencoe’s archaeology…
In the Archive: Finds Auditing
Leap into our artefact catalogues, finds studies and archiving processes with Amy Hellier, excavations and finds lab supervisor. ………….. If you have joined us on excavation over the past three years, I more than likely have taken the find you discovered, placed it in a finds bag, scribbled on a context and finds number with…
Look up, look down, look all around: A trip with the Archaeo-botanists
Between the 30th July and 1st August I was joined by Nicholas Cullen, Sabrina Ross, Cole Juckette and Nicky Juckette, for a series of site visits to our excavations across Glencoe, and some areas we would like to investigate around Rannoch Moor. Nick is our projects archaeo-botanist, based at Stanford University and a specialist in…
Fragment Found: Book Launch
I was thrilled to be able to attend the launch of the Fragments Found book and installation at the Make It Glasgow Bothy, beside the clay pits. This volume brings together a collection of contributions on the theme of found pottery fragments, including pieces by artists, archaeologists and mudlarks. In the volume there are reflections…
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…
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…
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…
Peatland and Wetland Group Workshop
On the 17th-18th February 2023 we hosted a workshop with members of the Peatlands and Wetlands discipline hopping group in Glencoe and Rannoch Moor, exploring the diverse peatland landscapes and considering human and non-human interactions in the peatland and the value of an ecosystem services approach to understanding the contemporary place of peatlands in our…
SGSAH Earth Scholars
On the 23rd – 25th April members of our group hosted a workshop for the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities Earth Scholars, a group of international interdisciplinary research students with shared interests in human-environment interactions. Over the course of two and a half days participants got to experience the landscapes of Glencoe and…