An exciting year-long community archaelogical project will be holding its first volunteer launch meeting in Cellardyke Town Hall tonight at 6.30pm.
Launched in January of this year, the Anstruther and Cellardyke Burgh Survey Project will give local people, of all ages and abilities, an opportunity to work with professional archaeologists and historians to explore the town’s fascinating past.
Archaeological excavations, survey work and historical research are being developed as part of the study, the results of which will culminate in the publication of a new book in 2017 entitled ‘Historic Anstruther & Cellardyke: The Archaeology & History of an East Neuk Burgh’.
Tonight’s meeting aims to promote the project and highlight volunteer initiatives forming part of the burgh survey.
These will include archive workshops, streetscape assessment surveys and graveyard research as well as a series of small archaeological excavations in September.
Almost £1 million was secured in 2011 from the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Townscape Heritage Initiative and from Historic Scotland’s Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme towards a five-year conservation programme in Anstruther and Cellardyke.