Adopt-a-Monument Cara Jones and Phil Richardson Archaeology Scotland [email protected] Overall aims of the scheme We provide advice and training opportunities on… • Project planning and delivery • Fundraising • Networking and promotion • Training • Survey and recording • Interpretation • Health and Safety, insurance Over the next five years we aim to complete 40 AaM projects 15 Outreach projects Phase one in a nutshell • 2.5 staff members Highland and Argyll and Bute regions • 3 short term placements alone Adopt has worked with • 266 people directly • 1182 additional participants who • 20 AaM sites have taken part in AaM project • 15 completed successful activities (e.g. open days, • 5 projects are ongoing community excavations) Traditional Adopt-a-Monument projects • Kildevive (Isle of Mull) • Swordle Bay (Ardnamurchan) • Baliscate Chapel, Tobermoray (Isle of Mull) • Ross of Mull graveyards and Townships project • Mulchaich West Settlement (Ross and Cromarty) • Caisteal Gorach (Ross and Cromarty) • Harehope Ring Cairn (Scottish Borders) • Banff Motte (Moray) • Cell Block in Camp 21 Cultybraggen (Perth and Kinross) • Rose Window, Balgay (Dundee) • Ardoch / Braco (Perth and Kinross) • Tarbert Castle (Argyll and Bute) • Kilbride Kirkyard and Dunollie Castle (Argyll and Bute) • Heights of Fodderty (Ross and Cromarty) • Raigmore Stone Circle (Inverness) • Kilallan Kirk (Renfrewshire) • Cromarty Medieval Burgh (Ross and Cromarty) • Tinkers Heart (Argyll and Bute) • Keil Chapel and Kirkyard (Locahber) • Calderbank Winding point (North Lanarkshire) Kilbride Kirkyard nr Oban Working with Dunollie Castle Trust Outcomes • Group have created a baseline record of the their site • Have received training and project support from AaM • Have had access to AaM equipment • Celebrated the site with an open day • Created a site management plan Mulchaich Township and Chambered Cairn Working with NoSAS and following on from the RCAHMS Scotland’s Rural Past project Outcomes • Erected a perimeter fence to keep livestock out and repaired perimeter fencing where required • Have successfully managed vegetation on site • Create a vegetation management plan • Produced a leaflet detailing the site • Enhanced their web content on the NOSAS website • Taken part in AaM training workshops and will take those skills to future projects Swordle Bay Working in partnership with the Ardnamurchan Transition Project and Ardnamurchan Estates Outcomes • Created a vegetation management plan for Cladh Aindreis Chambered Cairn • Consolidated previous excavated trenches • Create an interpretation panel to highlight the cultural heritage of the area • Have helped the group facilitate outreach events to engage with the local community • Project has created capacity - new community archaeology group now created which will take forward Raigmore Ring Cairn Working in partnership with Raigmore Community Council and local residents Outcomes • Exposed the internal features of the monument • Have turned it into a focal point for the community rather than a ‘garden feature’ • Helped the group engage with the local school • Installed on-site interpretation • Help create a vegetation management plan • Presented the results at HAF conference Outreach Projects Six completed over the last two years • Digging the Scene (Edinburgh) • Dighty Connect (Dundee) • Minding Merkinch (Inverness) • Claypits Greenspace Initiative (Glasgow) • Women at War (Ross and Cromarty) • Tarbet Disability (Argyll and Bute) Digging the Scene • Digging the Scene – Encouraged participants of a drop in centre to research and record their historic environment • Worked directly with 25 participants, but had a core group of 6 participants • We promoted using the internet to do research and encouraged groups to use their local library • Some our participants are computer illiterate and needed training and encouragement • Digging the scene continued for one term after AaM formal workshops finished Dighty Connect • Dighty Connect - established environmental project which works with different communities along the River Dighty in Dundee • Wanted to investigate and record archaeology along the Dighty • Worked with many focus groups along the Dighty • Have produced a baseline record of upstanding archaeology within our study area Women at War • Working with participants to record and research the role of women at HMS Owl • Received additional funding from the HLF All Our Stories fund • Working with Ross-shire Women’s Aid • Informed by the Highland Council of urgent areas which required recording Outcomes • 20 Adopt-a-Monument Projects • 15 additional groups have been supported with advice and guidance (either through a site visit or via email/ phone) • 6 outreach projects • Delivered 14 Training Workshops • 6 Conference papers • 7 Local society talks (at least!) • 3 Online resources • 1 online group forum Workshops • Completed 14 workshops in Highland Region and Argyll and Bute • Covered themes such as Project planning, site survey, funding, photogrammetry, interpretation, archival research, desk based assessments • Training courses helped attract additional members to individual projects New scheme – new ideas • Training workshops • Utilising new technology and promoting Digital Engagement • Develop working partnerships • Incorporating other ways to disseminate – e.g. storytelling, poetry Phase Two Projects 51 projects on the waiting list • Mellon Udrigle Roundhouse, Wester Ross (Still yet to advertise) • Camas nan Geall Burial Ground, Ardnamurchan, Lochaber • Raits Soutterain, Kingussie • Carn Glas Chambered Cairn, Ross and Cromarty • Green Isle Bell, Moidart • Meadowside Cemetary Dundee (The Howff) • Dunloch Lime Kilns • Crossford, Waggon Road • St Catherine’s Hospice, Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline • Glendaruel Forest Trust Phase Two projects Audiences Confirmed Projects • Douglas Support Estate • Third Lanark • Playing the Past • Caring Travellers Proposed Outreach Projects Locating the location Stroma (Young people in Wick/ Thurso) Swimming the past Partnership projects • Canal College • Lowland Brochs • Rouken Glen • ACCORD • AaM Franchise Thank you! Adopt-a-Monument is funded by • Heritage Lottery Fund • Historic Scotland • Highland Leader Programme • Argyll Leader Programme www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk [email protected] .