Visitors to step back in time at Holyrood Park 14 September 2011
Visitors to Holyrood Park this Sunday (18th September) will be
able to step back in time when the Park hosts its annual
Archaeology Day. The event, which runs as part of Scottish
Archaeology Month, celebrates the important history and
archaeology within the Park, which has been inhabitated by
humans and used as a hunting ground for around 8000 years.
Guided tours, held throughout the day, will allow the public to
meet a whole host of characters from the past including an Iron
Age hunter, a farmer and a Roman soldier Activities encouraging
visitors to discover and explore what life was like during this
period will be running at the education centre. These will
include the opportunity to try out authentic Iron Age
technologies from fire lighting to willow fencing and Roman
pottery. Meanwhile storytelling workshops will also take place
alongside an interactive Iron Age home life display. Matt
McCabe, a Ranger for Historic Scotland who manage the pa