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Camoflage Sights, Info Pack

Camoflage Sights, Info Pack
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I spent the last six months researching ancient monuments such as stone circles, Raths (Ring Forts), Cairns, Standing Stones and Burial tombs. This included collecting and collating the local myth and folklore concerning these sites. I also spent some time looking into the possible purposes and reasons these magical structures were built. The aim of this research was to develop a information pack which would work in conjunction with the existing Ordinance Survey maps, to outline and better document the Stone Age and Iron Age monuments scattered all over the British Isles. This package is aimed towards professionals in the creative industry, people with an interest in lifestyle, heritage and learning in a creative way. This might be offered as part of the activities during a weekend away in the country, an interesting activity to take part in while enjoying the outdoors, or on a picnic. I want to give people a reason to explore their ancient heritage, enabling them to appreciate and develop a curiosity for these sights, which seem to have slipped out of our national consciousness and into the staid world of academic journals.

In researching the depiction of these sights in literature I was pleased to find that this subject was not just confined to the text heavy world of academia or archaeological 		 

manuscripts. But also appeared
in literature of a more imaginative nature. Although I think this is a small problem. The more creative variety of this literature seems to verge quite far to the left-field side of the subject, as a result can be alienating or off-putting to people of a more conservative view. There seems to be two schools of thought on the matter; one is the elbow patch wearing academia school, the other is the mushroom taking, dancing around stone circles on a full moon, school. Excuse this tongue in cheek generalisation but I feel it illustrates the opinion of the average 20 to 40 year old. It is this demographic that I want to attract to these places to give them an appreciation for these almost forgotten monuments. I want to offer a middle ground, giving people the facts along side the myth and legend. Showing the sites as an interesting and educational place to visit and even a magical and awe inspiring.

For my final project I have put together an information pack called Camouflage Sights. This pack will be a definitive guide to Stone Age and early Iron Age structures, monuments. Drawing on all of my research over the past six months I intend on compiling one full information pack. This pack will use the Ordinance Survey sheet system as their template. For the purposes of



this project I will take only one Sheet area, sheet #55. This will be used as a case study, which could be applied to the full OS grid. I will be targeting this at urban creative, people with an interest in culture, history, and environment. The pack will consist of a map bases on the OS map but giving a lot more emphasis to ancient sites, on the reverse of the map there will be further information and photography regarding the sites on the front. Each site listed on the map will also have a booklet containing a full history and folklore of the site. A CD will also be provided containing an audio file which people will be able to upload to there iPod, this file will explain the site as they walk it

  

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