Whiteadder: Historic Heart of the Lammermuirs celebrates the Whiteadder Water valley through the eyes of its communities past and present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This part of the Scottish Borders is unusually rich in archaeology. Through new research and excavations the project uncovered and shared some of this landscapes ancient secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the Whiteadder learning page<\/a> you\u2019ll find information about archaeological sites of different time periods from across the Whiteadder Project study area, and ideas for how to use these sites as a springboard for learning.<\/p>\n\n\n Discover Neolithic chambered cairns, Bronze Age Beakers, Iron Age homes and weaving and textiles in the Early Historic period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The learning resources were created during spring\/summer 2020, when lockdown restrictions were in place, therefore most of the activities require few or no supplies beyond a pencil and paper, with the intention that they can be carried out at home as well as in class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the \u2018Experiences and Outcomes\u2018<\/a> document, you\u2019ll find a table which shows where the suggested activities might link in with the Curriculum for Excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We hope you\u2019ll enjoy exploring the archaeology of the Whiteadder with your learners!<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Discover archaeological sites of different time periods from across the Whiteadder Project study area, and ideas for how to use these sites as a springboard for learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,133,136,141,143,148,149,151,153,154,155,156,157,158,160,161,162,103,104,164,165,168,170,171,172,174,175,105,106,107,110,118,185,186,191,122,192,123,124,126,127,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activity","category-ancient-technology","category-archaeology","category-buildings-history","category-cfe-expressive-arts","category-cfe-literacy","category-cfe-mathematics","category-cfe-numeracy","category-cfe-sciences","category-cfe-social-studies","category-cfe-technologies","category-cfe-early-level","category-cfe-first-level","category-cfe-second-level","category-cfe-third-and-fourth-levels","category-cfe-literacy-english","category-creativity-skills","category-curriculum-for-excellence-areas","category-curriculum-for-excellence-levels","category-early-years","category-educators-notes","category-geography","category-history","category-home-education","category-interdisciplinary-learning","category-learning-for-sustainability","category-literacy","category-period","category-period-bronze-age","category-period-early-historic","category-period-iron-age","category-period-stone-age","category-primary","category-project","category-secondary","category-setting","category-stem","category-topic","category-type-of-resource","category-users","category-users-educators","category-users-learners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Hillfort](\"https:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/01\/Hillfort-Scene-Illustration-01-no-pine_smaller-01-1024x545.jpg\")
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