Considering a visit for Hogmanay and processing of wood recovered from the island.
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We will begin preparing the application for Scheduled Monument Consent for initial work on Inveruglas Isle. This will allow the teams to move quickly to meet any schedule requirements if there is a decision to proceed.
We would still love to do some preservation work on Inveruglas isle and will continue to work with HES and John Duncan to see what might be possible. Chris Barrowman of HES has provided their recommendations for tree work and we will begin working on the SMC applications in anticipation of future work.
On-going discussions about potential work at Inveruglas and the Arrochar Heritage site has been restored as-is. Howard Page and his team are working to identify a new content-management package to make a new incarnation of the site more maintainable long term. There are also on-going discussions about how to triage and manage Macfarlane heritage submissions from around the world.
Just back from Thailand and Cambodia. The importance of historical preservation is even clearer in our minds as well as the importance of our natural heritage. No plans for Elanvow or Inveruglas so far this summer.
Apologies. We missed the March update yesterday in favor of Easter festivities. No new activity on preserving the island strongholds but there is local activity to preserve a local heritage web site. We may need volunteers to help. More to follow on that!
No news on potential work on Inveruglas. We would be providing arms and legs to John Duncan, at best, since we have a strong working relationship with Historic Environment Scotland and have a proven team to do the work. More as that develops.
Over the Holidays, we began to consider next projects. There is still some remaining tree and site maintenance work to be done at Elanvow. and Inveruglas has much work that needs to be done. We will touch base with John Duncan on the latter. We heard last year that HES had proposed some works there and we would be happy to help.   Recent work has focused on the physical preservation of the site with tree works over several years to protect the integrity of the buildings on site. Photogrammetry certainly helped identify the needed works and in securing approvals from Historic Environment Scotland. We plan to return to earlier computer vision and text analysis of the extant 1395 charter granting the island to Macfarlanes along with earlier documents such as the 1215 charter. More to follow!An expanded team worked on Elanvow on September 29 and 30 to remove several tress that were threatening the outbuilding walls. The team consisted of two tree surgeons, each with a supporting helper, two boat skippers, three new volunteers joining the team, our chief archaeologist (Fiona Baker) and Joss Durnan of Historic Environment Scotland. The work was performed under Scheduled Monument Consent from Historic Environment Scotland and could not have been completed in the two days allocated without exceptional commitment from the team and extra help for our new team members Greg Gillies, Andy Flatters, and Andy Dempsey.
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Author(s)Katherine McFarlin, Archives
November 2024
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