Heritage, Community and Sustainability: Researching the Later Historical Archaeology of Colonsay

善于学习的社区更有弹性，对变化更敏感，更可持续。我们提出了一个项目，将社区、大学和遗产部门的研究人员聚集在一起，调查阿盖尔殖民地的中世纪晚期和早期现代考古遗产，并研究这需要的社会学习过程。以这种方式共同生产遗产知识将提高岛屿社区的学习能力和可持续性，并有助于了解遗产与可持续性之间的联系。科隆赛曾经是一个与群岛之主有关的海洋王国的中心，拥有独特的文化遗产，很少被探索。如今，它是苏格兰最偏远、最脆弱的社区之一。虽然当地对发展该岛的遗产有相当大的兴趣，但财政和人力资源能力有限，显然需要采取措施加强社区能力，以确保该岛能够自我维持和适应未来的挑战。我们将与社区伙伴紧密合作，推行一项以社区为基础的考古和景观调查方法学习和知识交流计划。这将包括对文献、制图和说明资源进行详细的桌面评估；一项详细的景观调查计划，以及对一些目标地点的考古调查。主要成果将包括建立一个文化景观档案，生成一个在线资源和一个实体社区展览，以及增强社区获得未来社区遗产资金的能力。社会学习的平行定性研究将建立评价和理论框架，将传统社会学习与增强适应能力和复原力联系起来。这一丰富的合作生产过程将大大增加对该地区中世纪晚期早期现代考古学的理解；创造宝贵的社区文物资源，为未来社区主导的文物旅游项目作出贡献；加强社区的学习能力和对遗产和可持续性的理解。

Communities that are good at learning are more resilient, responsive to change and sustainable. We propose a project to bring together a network of community, university and heritage sector researchers to investigate the late medieval and early modern archaeological heritage of Colonsay in Argyll, and to research the social learning processes this entails. Co-producing heritage knowledge in this way will enhance the learning capacity and sustainability of the island community and contribute to understanding of the heritage and sustainability link. Colonsay was once the centre of a maritime kingdom associated with the Lord of the Isles and has a unique cultural heritage that is little explored. Today it is one of Scotland's most remote and fragile communities. While there is considerable local interest in developing the heritage of the island, financial and human resource capacity is limited and there is a clear need for initiatives to enhance community capacity to ensure the island is self-sustaining and resilient to future challenges. Working closely with community partners we will run a programme of community-based learning and knowledge exchange in archaeological and landscape survey field methodologies. This will include a detailed desk-based assessment of documentary, cartographic and illustrative resources; a detailed programme of landscape survey, and an archaeological investigation of a number of targeted sites. Key outcomes will include a cultural landscape archive to generate an online resource and a physical community mounted exhibition, and enhanced community capacity to access future community heritage funding. A parallel qualitative research study of social learning will develop evaluative and theoretical frameworks to link heritage social learning to enhance adaptive capacity and resilience. This rich co-production process will add significantly to understanding of the late medieval early modern archaeology of the region; create a valuable community heritage resource to contribute to future community-led heritage tourism projects; and, enhance community learning capacity and understanding of heritage and sustainability.