🎃 ScARF Newsletter - October 2016: websites, wrecks and witches 👻

October 2016
Newsletter #13

Have you seen our new look website yet?

Screenshot of the new look www.scottishheritagehub.com homepage.

You may have noticed that the ScARF website underwent some cosmetic changes earlier this month. This was caused by some behind the scenes maintenance which meant that some of our website needed a bit of spring cleaning. None of the content changed, but it does mean that a few things now look different, so here is some further explanation of what you might find.

On the Homepage

The main menu has moved to the left. It was only on the right hand side on the homepage, so now it will not move during your time reading panel reports or anything else on the website.
Items on the main menu have been re-grouped. All of the menu items are still there, and the URL's they had are the same, but they are likely now to be under a different heading. For example, all of the panel reports are now grouped together under 'panel reports' rather than listed separately. This is partly because the amount of archaeological information ScARF contains is growing. In 2012 there were nine panel reports, the addition of 'Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland' earlier this year makes ten and since we expect at least two regional panel reports to be added during this phase of the project, tidying up the list made sense.

Across the website

The Directory for Archaeological Scientists is temporarily unavailable. We are working to get this fixed and hope to have it back in place as soon as possible. In the meantime, if you are looking for someone who can do some archaeological science for you, please get in touch with ScARF and we will help you out.
We have tried to check every page, but with over 600 of them it will take a while! Some images and text may appear to be formatted oddly, and if this is the case then we hope to have them cleaned up by the end of October. If you spot something that doesn't look quite right, or as it did, then get in touch and we can a) fix it and b) reward you!

As a contributor

If you log into the website, you will notice that the interface for adding comments (and editing in general if you have those permissions) has changed. Things should make more sense but if they don't then please get in touch. An updated user manual will be published soon and will be available on the website.

Thank you for your patience whilst we make these necessary changes and do let us know what you think.

Visit the ScARF website and refresh your memory!

Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland: an update two months on

Digital reconstruction of how Bruce’s tomb may have appeared. © The Centre for Digital Documentation and Visualisation. Image from http://www.scottishheritagehub.com/content/case-study-tomb-robert-bruce

It is now two months since Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland (FTCSS) was officially launched as part of the ScARF family of panel reports, and it has already proved very popular.

Since its launch, FTCSS has become the most viewed panel report on ScARF, overtaking the previous frontrunner, the Neolithic panel report. The most popular 'chapter' within the report is 'Case Studies' and the most popular of those is the study on the tomb of Robert the Bruce.

It is still early days, but gold stars all round for everyone involved!

Read the Carved Stones report on the ScARF website

Conference News

NAS and SCAPE Conference 2016 - "From Land to Sea"
5th—7th November 2016
University Of Glasgow, Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre Suite, Dumbarton Road, G11 6NT

The Nautical Archaeology Society and The SCAPE Trust are pleased to be partnering for this conference, a weekend of exciting opportunities to discuss research and review the archaeological activities of members, friends and colleagues and exchange ideas on our maritime cultural heritage.

Many of the speakers have been involved with the ScARF Marine and Maritime panel so looks to be a great day!

NOTE: BOOKING CLOSES AT THE END OF OCTOBER.

Photo © NAS and SCAPE. https://archconf16.eventbrite.co.uk

Find out more about the conference and book a place

The Dalrymple Lectures 2016
14th—17th November 2016
The Sir Charles Wilson Building, Kelvin Way, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Ireland and the Art of Stone Carving in Early Medieval Europe

This year the lectures will be given by Professor Roger Stalley, Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin and will take place over four days.

Lectures are free and open to all.

Find out more about the lectures and book a place

The ScARF Calendar at http://www.scottishheritagehub.com/content/scarf-calendar contains details of upcoming archaeological seminars and events in Scotland and is regularly updated. If you have something you'd like to add just get in touch.

Halloween Fun

Did you know that there are witches abroad in the ScARF panel reports? Since it is Halloween in just a few days, we thought we'd highlight some of the spookier content in ScARF.

The Modern panel report contains mention of the infamous Scottish witch trials in the Reformations chapter and the 'Landscape of Belief' case study. Ghosts surface in the Modern 'Body and the Person' chapter and there is also some discussion on witch bottles in buildings.

The Medieval panel report doesn't explicitly mention witches, but there is a case study on St Mithers Kirk, Aberdeen. This building was used to house 'witches' in the 15th century and there is a recent (June 2016) article on the BBC News website about the archaeology of witchcraft at the site.

Happy reading!

Next month: updates from both the Argyll and South East Scotland regional research frameworks!

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