Galloway Glens supported a Glenkens Men’s Shed project to make a replica of the famous Balmaclellan Mirror. The event on the 22nd August 2021, took place in the Smiddy car park in Balmaclellan and the casting was carried out by the Mobile Foundry.

The ‘Can You Dig It’ Community Archaeology Programme was a four year Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership project, providing engaging and educational archaeology activities.

These Data Structure Reports describes works carried out for at several sites as part of the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership (GGLP) community archaeology project Can You Dig It? The Reports presents the results from surveys and test pitting works undertaken at the sites.

In 2021, the ‘Dig It!’ project commissioned Mae Diansangu to write a poem inspired by the investigation of a deserted farmstead called Upper Gairloch on the Raiders Road.

Prepared as part of the Galloway Glens Can You Dig It scheme, these notes summarise some of the historic archaeological excavations to have taken place in the Galloway Glens area.