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Year One report on the geophysical and topographic survey of Sand Wick, Unst, Shetland.
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This report presents the results of a first season of excavation of an eroding coastal site at Sand Wick on
Unst in the Shetland Isles. The four-week excavation, carried out by Glasgow University Archaeological
Research Division (GUARD) on behalf of The SCAPE Trust, was designed to rescue information from
the site before its destruction and to train Shorewatch/Shetland’s Past volunteers in the investigation and
recording of eroding coastal sites.
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Tom Dawson and Sandy Winterbottom
The Airborne Remote Sensing
and Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of Coll
and Tiree was a collaborative project that
brought together the Department of Environmental
Sciences, University of Stirling, the AHRB
Centre for Environmental History, University
of St. Andrews, The Coastal Research Group,
University of Glasgow. The project aim was
to test the use of Airborne Remote Sensing
to discover archaeological sites within mobile
sand dune and machair areas. A wealth of
data, including infra-red and thermal images
were collected from selected stretches of
the Coll and Tiree coastlines. The images
were combined and examined in order to locate
sites that were visible on the surface or
partially buried.
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Tom Dawson
The use of traps has been one
of the most important and efficient ways of catching
fish since people first started eating them as part
of their diet. This report focuses on fish-traps
located on the Firth of Forth and the Moray Firth,
examining reasons for the vast discrepancy in the
number of fish-traps known about. The study aimed
to find reasons for the huge distribution difference,
determining whether it was due to varying fishing
practices, changes in the coastline or a reflection
of the archaeological surveys themselves.
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