Jun 16, 2015
Brochs are amongst the most spectacular of eroding coastal archaeology, and in the course of the Scotland’s Coastal Heritage at Risk Project, we have seen and recorded a few of them. Hundreds of these towers of the Iron Age would once have been an impressive...
Apr 1, 2015
The Wemyss Caves are once again at the centre of a digital whirlwind. Thanks to funding from Fife Council, Historic Scotland and the Heritage Lottery Fund, teams from the York Archaeological Trust, (YAT), SCAPE, and the Save the Wemyss Ancient Caves Society (SWACS)...
Oct 16, 2014
While looking at Google Earth, a sharp-eyed SCHARP volunteer spotted numerous wrecks on the foreshore of the Clyde near the Erskine Bridge. A search on Canmore, the national online database of buildings and archaeological sites, revealed that the “remains of several...
Dec 17, 2013
The Wemyss Caves were at the centre of a digital data capture whirlwind in November. Specialists from the York Archaeological Trust (YAT) joined SCAPE and Save the Wemyss Ancient Caves Society (SWACS) for a week-long technology extravaganza – and there was plenty of...
Aug 15, 2013
It was with a heavy heart that we packed up the site at Cromarty this weekend; we’ve had two weeks of great archaeology and great company in a beautiful setting, so the SCHARP team were sorry to be leaving. The work on site has revealed some interesting archaeological...
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