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    Monday 30th August

    by Jon Henderson August 31, 2021

    Excavation blog by Ross Dempster This is our sixth day of excavations on the site, and it proved quite cold and windy compared to the glorious sunshine of last week. By this stage, much of the rampart has been exposed by trowelling and it is…

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    Friday 27th August

    by Jon Henderson August 28, 2021

    Excavation Blog by Findlay Cormack Today on the fifth day of our Holyrood Park field school, we in the excavation team continued our work to remove any excess pebbles and soil surrounding parts of the rampart revealed in the previous days. Using trowels and brushes,…

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    Thursday 26th August

    by Jon Henderson August 27, 2021

    Excavation blog by Garion Adams Today will be the fourth day of work and in effect the third of practical excavation on site in the park. We set quickly off to pick up where we had left off, furthering what we had done in previous…

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    Wednesday 25th August

    by Jon Henderson August 25, 2021

    Excavation blog by Verity Limond Excavation continued apace today as the team trowelled away the loose gravel and archaeologically-barren topsoil that cover older layers. As the digging progressed, we could see the earth changing colour and texture, from looser brown gravelly soil to a blacker…

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    Tuesday 24th August

    by mikepostons August 17, 2021

    Excavation blog by Brigid Golden Today marked day two of our project in Holyrood Park. Having fenced off our worksite the day before, we were able to mark the boundaries of our trench for the excavation of the Iron Age rampart near the summit of…

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    Monday 23rd August

    by mikepostons May 10, 2021

    Excavation Blog by John Strachan The first day started, as is often the case on archaeology projects, with introductions. The team gathered in Dunsapie car park. We met Jamie Hamilton, the Senior Ranger in the park and Richard Strachan from Historic Environment Scotland, as well…

    2021 Season (Archive), News

    New Website Launched

    by mikepostons March 11, 2021

    This website will follow the daily progress of the Holyrood Park Field School with updates from students and staff each day. Each day a blog update will be provided by undergraduate students from the project team.

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    This three-week field school provides intensive training for archaeological undergraduates in essential archaeological survey and excavation skills. Students receive hands-on instruction from experienced commercial archaeology staff in essential archaeological field skills including tape and total station field survey, photogrammetry and excavation. The aim of the project is to assess the impacts of erosion to archaeological sites caused by increasing visitor numbers to the park every year.

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    You can contact Dr Jon Henderson at jon.henderson@ed.ac.uk

     

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