Apologies for the gap in blog posts. Three trips have been planned and re-scheduled or cancelled in the interim. Conflicting travel and other complications make another trip unlikely until mid-summer. The completion of the standing building assessment and final report are the progress-limiting steps in completion of the second SMC work and submission of the third SMC.
There has certainly been lots of communication and activity since January. Fiona made a presentation to a local heritage society on March 21st and that was very well received (Thanks).
We will say here, again, that we are grateful for the support and coverage in the published articles that arise from these types of interactions. It is very nice to have local Scots say nice things about the American members of the team, but we will go on record here, again, to say that we repeatedly object to the notion that the projects and efforts of EVPF are American-sponsored or American-led. The most important members of the team are the three local Scottish archaeologists and the extended team includes local Rangers, Tree Surgeons, and Academics. We felt that both recent articles put way too much emphasis on the American members of the team. We were able to arrange some changes in both recent articles, but the authors certainly have the right and have exercised their right to report their interpretations. While it is true the the EVPF Board has sponsored most of the work since 2013, donations from around the world have provided the support to the works on Elanvow and we think it would be a disservice to our international donors to suggest the work is American-funded. On the latter point, the authors of the most recent article graciously agreed to change the electronic text, but the printed text had already been committed. Again, we are very grateful for the support and coverage.
The final draft of the site map and survey for the report is included on our home page.
We continue to mine the Hill Collection for information relevant to Elanvow research or of general value. That has also been designed as an opportunity to do some personal technical development in python programming, computer vision, and in standards for electronic presentation of historical documents. This is in support of the Muniments projects led by Preston McFarland and Peter McFarlin ... independent of any clan society affiliation. Morag Cross has been helping us locally with this and we are very, very grateful for all her help!
We will continue to press to complete the second SMC report. We are approaching our sixth year as EVPF and hope to move on to the third SMC by then.
Since we believe our site was being electronically probed (a dozen small and unusual donations), we still have donations disabled at present. We have created some unique items from the Elm wood taken at Elanvow in 2013 and plan to offer those as "Thank You" gifts for special donations when we start formal fundraising for SMC 3.
Many Thanks for all your support and interest!
There has certainly been lots of communication and activity since January. Fiona made a presentation to a local heritage society on March 21st and that was very well received (Thanks).
We will say here, again, that we are grateful for the support and coverage in the published articles that arise from these types of interactions. It is very nice to have local Scots say nice things about the American members of the team, but we will go on record here, again, to say that we repeatedly object to the notion that the projects and efforts of EVPF are American-sponsored or American-led. The most important members of the team are the three local Scottish archaeologists and the extended team includes local Rangers, Tree Surgeons, and Academics. We felt that both recent articles put way too much emphasis on the American members of the team. We were able to arrange some changes in both recent articles, but the authors certainly have the right and have exercised their right to report their interpretations. While it is true the the EVPF Board has sponsored most of the work since 2013, donations from around the world have provided the support to the works on Elanvow and we think it would be a disservice to our international donors to suggest the work is American-funded. On the latter point, the authors of the most recent article graciously agreed to change the electronic text, but the printed text had already been committed. Again, we are very grateful for the support and coverage.
The final draft of the site map and survey for the report is included on our home page.
We continue to mine the Hill Collection for information relevant to Elanvow research or of general value. That has also been designed as an opportunity to do some personal technical development in python programming, computer vision, and in standards for electronic presentation of historical documents. This is in support of the Muniments projects led by Preston McFarland and Peter McFarlin ... independent of any clan society affiliation. Morag Cross has been helping us locally with this and we are very, very grateful for all her help!
We will continue to press to complete the second SMC report. We are approaching our sixth year as EVPF and hope to move on to the third SMC by then.
Since we believe our site was being electronically probed (a dozen small and unusual donations), we still have donations disabled at present. We have created some unique items from the Elm wood taken at Elanvow in 2013 and plan to offer those as "Thank You" gifts for special donations when we start formal fundraising for SMC 3.
Many Thanks for all your support and interest!
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