Calton Hill Conservation Trust (CHCT) have just been awarded a grant for a community project to explore the heritage and archaeology of Calton Hill. Funded in full by Edinburgh Council Community Grants, the project will be managed by the Trust jointly with Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Here is a description of the project:
“[We] aim to deliver a community archaeology project for local community members and visitors to explore the heritage and archaeology of Calton Hill. The hill is visited and enjoyed regularly as an area for leisure by community members. It is home to several important heritage sites . . . However little is known about the earlier historic use of the hill.
The project will engage the local community in workshops and activities to help understand what we already know about the hill’s history, and how; and to develop shared community questions about what they’d like to know about the history of the hill.
The first step would be to commission Headland Archaeology to undertake a photogrammetry survey of the hill [Autumn 2025] to input into CHCT’s existing GIS database.
Following this a series of events and workshops for the local community will be delivered on the history and archaeology of the hill. This includes events to get people outside and physically interacting with the hill and its historic landscape.”
More information about project activities will be available when we know starting dates etc.