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In the second of two articles, Dr Christian Clarkson, Heritage Consultant at Simpson Brown takes a look at the work she undertook at Carrickfergus Castle.

In 2023, Simpson & Brown were engaged as heritage consultants to write conservation plans for three historic structures in Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim: the Elizabethan town walls; the Category A-listed...

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Project lead of the Canterbury Castle Visualisation project, Dr Katie McGown, gives an update on how the project is progressing.

The Visualising Canterbury Castle project is in the process of producing a new digital reconstruction of Canterbury Castle’s Norman keep. In our last post we discussed the first of a series o...

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Dr David Caldwell, formerly of the National Museum of Scotland, has just had the results of his excavations at Finlaggan in the 1990s published by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Here he describes one of the more unexpected outcomes of the dig.

The main aim of the Finlaggan archaeological project was to shed light on a place believed to be the centr...

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Project leads Paul Pattison and Esther van Raamsdonk give an update on how their project on transcribing and translating of the Seventeenth Century survey by a Dutch Engineer of 22 castles and fortifications.

Now we are reaching the end of our research project – Transcribing and Translating SP9/99: A Seventeenth-Century Dut...

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In the first of two articles Dr Cristian Clarkson, Heritage Consultant at Simpson & Brown takes a look some of the work she has done at various castles during her time with the firm.

The exterior of Dalkeith Palace is easily accessible to visitors, standing within a popular country park south-west of Edinburgh. Its interiors, however,...

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