Community-led Heritage Knowledge Co-Production for Sustainable Development: community archaeology in Ulster and the Western Isles of Scotland

几个世纪以来，爱尔兰北海岸和苏格兰西部被一套共同的文化传统、语言和政治结构内在地联系在一起。这是一个海上省份，由短途和容易通航的海上路线连接起来，与15世纪的岛屿爵位有着最高的水位。不断变化的政治格局和其他社会经济变化意味着这些社区之间的共同身份和联系几乎消失了，曾经处于这个王国中心的苏格兰岛屿社区现在经历了地理和社会的边缘以及由此带来的许多问题。随着动乱的开始，北爱尔兰变得越来越孤立，因为长期的冲突关闭了国家，使经济增长陷入瘫痪。随着阿尔斯特在冲突中结结巴巴地走出来，社区的一些部分越来越多地着眼于过去，以重申自己在当代社会中的地位并重新定位。联合主义传统的很大一部分人期待苏格兰在新兴的阿尔斯特苏格兰传统中定义他们的身份和历史。民族主义社区仍然牢牢地植根于盖尔爱尔兰传统，向南寻找自己的文化身份。与此同时，苏格兰正在形成一种新的国家认同感，因为政客们接受了一种选择性的过去观点，这种观点将爱尔兰岛东北部和其他地区的人民的角色放在一边。然而，考古学越来越多地证明了这些社区之间的深度联系，最近对邓卢斯城堡17世纪城镇的发掘生动地证实，该地区的共同遗产通过相互关联的经济、家族联系和文化传统延伸到了早期现代时期。我们提议开展一个项目，在阿尔斯特和苏格兰西部地区(阿尔斯特大学、贝尔法斯特女王大学、格拉斯哥大学、北爱尔兰环境局、苏格兰历史博物馆和基尔马廷之家信托基金)建立一个研究人员网络，并与项目区的三个社区(殖民地遗产信托基金和基尔恰坦小学、殖民地布什米尔遗产集团、鲍林玩具社区集团和安特里姆的米尔斯特兰综合小学)以及塔瓦利奇村社区小组和阿盖尔中部的泰瓦利奇小学共同制作这一历史资源。这将建立一种共同的过去的意识，并挑战和质疑当代版本的身份和位置。它将在经济复兴和增进社区福祉方面发挥作用，为目前关于在殖民地建立一个遗产中心的提议做出贡献。我们将在已建立的机构和社区联系的基础上，在该地区的高等教育机构、社区团体、学校和遗产组织之间建立研究人员-社区伙伴关系。我们将把项目范围内现有的考古研究和资源以及初步考古调查和调查方案的成果结合起来，在2011年5/6月举办三个开放日(科隆赛、基尔马丁博物馆和安特里姆的金巴内各一个)，为三所学校(科隆赛、阿盖尔中部和安特里姆各一所)提供一个社交网络方案，以及由阿尔斯特大学主办的一个网站和在线博客，以支持社区和研究人员的互动。这将促进研究人员与社区的对话，支持未来社区主导的HLF资金申请，以及联合制作的遗产研究项目的潜在申请。2012年9月/10月与社区和研究伙伴举行的一轮后续会议和讲习班将进一步支持这一进程。该项目将最终设计和制作海报、文物和数字展览，在每个项目区展示，然后永久存放在科伦塞的村庄大厅，直接支持科伦赛遗产信托基金。

For centuries the north coast of Ireland and Western Scotland were intrinsically linked by a common set of cultural traditions, language and political structures. This was a maritime province connected by short and easily navigable sea routes that had its high-water mark with the fifteenth-century Century Lordship of the Isles. The shifting political landscape and other socio-economic changes have meant that the shared identities and connections between these communities have all but vanished, and the Scottish Island communities that were once at the centre of this kingdom now experience geographical and social peripherality and the many problems this brings. With the onset of the Troubles Northern Ireland became increasingly isolated as the extended period of conflict closed the country and paralysed economic growth. As Ulster stutters out of conflict sections of the community are looking increasingly to the past to reaffirm and reposition themselves in contemporary society. Large sections of the unionist tradition look towards Scotland to define their identities and histories in an emerging Ulster Scots tradition. The nationalist community remains firmly embedded in a Gaelic Irish tradition that looks southwards for its cultural identities. Simultaneously, a new sense of nationhood is being developed in Scotland as politicians embrace a selective view of the past that sidelines the role the peoples of the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and others. Yet increasingly, archaeology is demonstrating the depth of connections between these communities and recent excavations of the seventeenth-century town at Dunluce Castle, for example, have confirmed vividly that the shared heritage of this region extended well into the early modern period through a linked economy, familial connections and cultural traditions. We propose a project to develop a researcher network across Ulster and Western Scotland (University of Ulster, Queen's University Belfast, Glasgow University, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Historic Scotland and the Kilmartin House Trust and co-produce this historic resource working with three communities in the project area (Colonsay Heritage Trust and Kilchattan Primary School, Colonsay Bushmills Heritage Group, Ballintoy Community Group and Millstrand Integrated Primary School in Antrim and Tavvallich Village Commnity Group and Tayvallich Primary School in Mid Argyll. This will build an awareness of a shared past and challenge and question contemporary versions of identity and place. It will play a part in economic regeneration and enhanced community well-being by contributing to current proposals to develop a heritage centre on Colonsay. We will build on established institutional and community links to create a researcher-community partnership between HE institutions, community groups, schools and heritage organisations within the region. We will bring together existing archaeological research and resources within the project area and findings from an initial programme of archaeological survey and investigation to deliver three open days in May/June 2011 (one each in Colonsay, Kilmartin museum and Kinbane, Antrim), a social networking programme for three schools (one each from Colonsay, Mid Argyll and Antrim) and a web site and online blog to support community-researcher interaction, hosted by the University of Ulster. This will stimulate researcher-community dialogue, support future community-led applications for HLF funding and potential applications for co-produced heritage research projects. A round of follow up meetings and workshops with community and research partners in September/October 2012 will further support this process. The project will culminate in the design and production of a poster, artefact and digital exhibit, displayed in each project area before being permanently housed initially at the village hall on Colonsay to directly support the Colonsay Heritage Trust.