Solway: A Wet Weekend’s Walking
This weekend Ellie and Natalia headed down to the Solway Coast to meet some brave volunteers and look at some sites between downpours. On Friday, we met local county archaeologist … Continue reading
Loch Paible Final Week
Our third and final week Throughout week 3, the moon was getting bigger – which meant that as each day passed, the sea started to creep up on our trenches. … Continue reading
Loch Paible Week 2
Digging on a beach certainly isn’t easy! Last week, we battled spring tides, which filled our excavation trenches with water twice a day. However, the pattern of tides changes quickly … Continue reading
Orkney: our wettest, windiest and busiest ShoreUPDATE yet
Hello from Orkney, where we’ve spent an amazing couple of weeks exploring eroding coastlines, and encountering world class archaeology in the best company of our SCHARP volunteers and new friends. … Continue reading
Wind, waves and eroding heritage on the Western Isles
The SCHARP team are all out and about on the Western Isles at the moment; Tom, Natalia and a small team of archaeologists are in North Uist, excavating an eroding … Continue reading
Exchanging local knowledge in the Forth
Saturday saw the SCHARP team deliver a ShoreUPDATE training day in Falkirk, in the grand surroundings of Callendar House. Notwithstanding the regular gunshots outside the window (just the starting pistol … Continue reading
ShoreUPDATES on the Solway Firth
Last week we had another taste of the beautiful, historically fascinating shores of the Solway Firth. Our first ShoreUPDATE day in the area was in Stranraer Museum where volunteers got … Continue reading
ShoreUPDATE, Cromarty Firth
Firth foreshores may not be as dramatic or as exposed to the waves as open coasts, but there are treasures to be discovered along their muddy shores. On Tuesday, members … Continue reading
Exploring the heritage of the Inner Forth
We’re planning several ShoreUPDATE events around the Forth, and since there’s no substitute for firsthand knowledge of an area, the SCHARP team spent a day exploring the landscape and heritage … Continue reading
Happy New Year!
We hope everyone had a great festive period! We had an inspiring day yesterday in great company with the chair of Save Wemyss Ancient Caves Society and laser scanning and … Continue reading
Our first ShoreUPDATE training day
On Saturday we ran our first training event with young people from St Andrews student archaeology society. This not only provided us with a chance to practice our planned activities … Continue reading
Fieldtrip to Wemyss Caves
At the end of last week, we went on a trip down the coast to a series of caves on the beach at East Weymss. The caves are best known … Continue reading
Trip out of the office!!
Natalia here again, finally recovered from our conference tour. Thanks to everyone who came and spoke to us! For the past few days I have been making training videos for … Continue reading
Busy month ahead
Sorry for neglecting the blog, we’ve been very busy in the office preparing for conferences. You can find us at The Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee Conference on Saturday 3rd … Continue reading
Week one and HAF
Natalia here, at the end of a very busy first two weeks! It’s been all systems go since I started at SCAPE last Monday and so far it feels like … Continue reading
