1 10 3 https://glenkensarchive.scot/glenkens_archive/files/original/11/529/GGLP-CYDI-AreWeThereYet_FinalResults.pdf 2f51a8458adfda88d701e85725527024 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Are We There Yet? Final Results Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Are We There Yet? The Great Gallovidian Milestone Hunt Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource GGLP Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Are We There Yet? The Great Gallovidian Milestone Hunt Still standing 78 milestone locations surveyed No longer there 18 still standing Five of these are marked on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey maps meaning that they’ve been standing in those locations for at least 170 years! Are We There Yet? was delivered as part of Can You Dig It, the community archaeology project of the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership MS12 Did you know? MS12 (NX 64209 77640) sits along the A713 giving a distance to Dalry of 3 miles and to Parton Station at 6 miles. Lesson learned at this one – worth double checking a location during the winter months. The vegetation along many road verges will be thickest during the summer so you might need the leaves to fall before spotting any milestones hiding in their midst. There is a Milestone Society. A charity dedicated to “identify, record, research, conserve and interpret for public benefit the milestones and other waymarkers of the British Isles”. It was set up in 2001 and since then its members have recorded over 31,000 milestones, other waymarkers and tollhouses. You can find out a lot of information about milestones on their website at www.milestonesociety.co.uk MS13 MS13 The chunky-looking MS14 (NX 65480 74863) also sits along the A713. It was found by David just to the south of the turn-off for the ‘Hidden Road’. The stone gives a distance of 5 miles to Dalry and 4 miles to Parton Station. MS13 (NX 64601 76181) sits along the A713 giving a distance to Dalry of 4 miles and to Parton Station at 5 miles. Discovered by Elliot who thought that they looked ‘similar to milestones guiding the way to Killywhan Station from New Abbey’ so perhaps commissioned by the railway company. MS14 MS18 You might well spot MS18 (NX 69145 70126) as you drive along the A713 through Parton – it sits along the tidy grass verge to your left as you come into the village from the north. A simple ‘7’ represents 7 miles to Castle Douglas. MS24 Another good spot by Elliot, MS24 (NX 75417 63517) sits along the A713 with the number ‘1’ – representing that it sits 1 mile to the north of Castle Douglas. Did you know? Before the days of trains and cars, the 400-mile journey between Edinburgh and London would have taken 16 days! MS25 Located on the pavement outside NFU Mutual Insurance Company in Castle Douglas, MS25 (NX 76709 62683) was recorded by both Claire and Elliot. ‘J. Affleck, Dumfries’ can be found at the bottom of the top plate. 348 miles to London would have been quite a journey back then. MS30 MS27 A slightly tricky one – MS27 (NX 55041 76117) sits along the A712 near Clatteringshaws. Mapping shows its location at a layby further down the road from this spot and a slab sitting flush to the ground there might represent its original site. Eagle-eyed Keith spotted this stone at the coach layby for the visitor centre though, which looks like it could be a good contender! Located in a slightly more rugged setting, David recorded MS30 (NX 59350 77430) along the A712 which leads to Clatteringshaws Loch – a position that it appears to have held for at least 170 years! It has a ‘27’ for 27 miles to Dumfries. Also in New Galloway, MS36 (NX 63406 77674) sits on the pavement just in front of The Smithy displaying ‘Dalry 3¾’ and ‘NG Stn 5’. Keith noted that: ‘NG Stn appears to have been New Galloway railway station, which was located to the south in the village of Mossdale! Much of the original station can still be seen, including the platform and original station building, now a private dwelling. The station and line were closed in 1965.’ MS33 Sitting at the top end of New Galloway, MS33 (NX 63431 77803) displays either a ‘24’ or ’29’. No name is shown but Keith observed that it’s likely to be Dumfries, so probably 24. MS36 MS37 MS39 Did you know? From 1706 to the 1840s, Turnpike Trusts were set up to raise money for building stretches of road. They introduced tolls for using the roads, something which had been free until this point, which led to anti-turnpike riots across Britain. In Wales, these became known as the ‘Rebecca Riots’ where male rioters would dress up as women and tear down the tollgates. MS38 MS37 (NX 63347 76090), MS38 (NX 64096 74691) and MS39 (NX 65042 73421) all sit along the A762 between New Galloway and Mossdale. They continue the run of milestones down to where the railway station was located at Mossdale. MS39 was a little hard to find at first but Peter was determined and finally spotted it as having been knocked over. As proof of how solid they are though, it’s still in good condition! Sent in by Jo, MS40 (NX 65437 71947) sits along the A762 and is the last in the run towards New Galloway Station that once sat 1 mile to the south. Jo spotted though that the milestone appears to have been moved to the opposite side of the road from where it was originally located, likely due to the construction of the cottages close to the roadside in the late 20th century. MS56 Marking the 2 miles to Castle Douglas, MS56 (NX 76663 65919) has moved a few metres back from the roadside to become a beautiful addition to the border of a raised flower bed! It’s been well taken care of though and you can still see it from the road. MS40 MS74 This was a good spot by Keith – MS74 (NX 69520 53647) is hidden in long grass behind metal railings, within the grounds of Tongland Power Station. He couldn’t make out an inscription but spotted what looks to be a benchmark on top. MS69 MS69 (NX 76886 58553) sits along the B727 at the southwest end of Gelston. It has the number ‘19’ – the distance to Dumfries. MS76 (NX 68282 51064) doesn’t actually appear on the older mapping so its existence was brought to our attention by our surveyors. Keith took these images – it sits just against the wall to the south of Greyfriars Church, right at the centre of Kirkcudbright. The ‘27’ seems to represent the distance to Dumfries. This must have been obvious enough not to label it at the time! MS76 We didn’t originally have MS77 (NX 76338 62218) on our map, but Claire spotted it set into the wall of the Douglas Arms Hotel in Castle Douglas. Cast iron, it has an inscription at the base – ‘J.Affleck Founder Dumfries 1827’, presumably the same J. Affleck who created the plates on MS25, also in Castle Douglas. MS77 So 1827 makes MS25 and MS77 nearly 200 years old – looking not bad for their age! Did you know? Many milestones were removed or defaced in World War II to baffle potential German invaders and it is thought that only 9,000 of them still survive today across the whole of Britain. THANK YOU to all the volunteer surveyors: David Bartholomew, Lyn Ferguson, David G, Jo Gallant, Keith Hamblin, Claire Martin, Elliot Matthew, Peter Sewell, Ian Steele and Sarah Steele  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Are We There Yet? Final Results Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GGLP_69 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource GGLP Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource GCAT Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Description An account of the resource Are We There Yet? was delivered as part of Can You Dig It, the community archaeology project of the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership. GGLP heritage https://glenkensarchive.scot/glenkens_archive/files/original/11/527/GGLP_CYDI-AWTY-Recording-form.pdf 5365a77ddbfa4b7b1e2090f19560b855 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Are We There Yet? Recording Form Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Are We There Yet? The Great Gallovidian Milestone Hunt Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource GGLP Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Are We There Yet? Recording form Milestone No. Is it still there? Your initials & date: Is it where the map says it is? If not, where is it? GPS coordinates, a what3words location or a measurement i.e 5m to the north of the map location? Description: What is it made of? What shape is it? If there’s nothing there, is there anything to show that it once was? Feel free to draw a sketch with notes - use the back of the sheet for more space to create your artwork! Did you take any photographs? Dimensions: Just a simple width, height and depth will do Is there an inscription? If so, what does it say? What can you tell us about its condition? Has it been damaged or defaced in any way? Is it badly weathered or covered in vegetation?  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Are We There Yet? Recording Form Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GGLP_67 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource GGLP Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource GCAT Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Description An account of the resource Are We There Yet? was delivered as part of Can You Dig It, the community archaeology project of the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership. GGLP heritage https://glenkensarchive.scot/glenkens_archive/files/original/11/526/GGLP_CYDI-Are-WeThere-Yet-info.pdf 8c5e71ef959546392a50d3efb50c79ef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Are We There Yet? Information Sheet Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Are We There Yet? The Great Gallovidian Milestone Hunt Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource GGLP Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Yes we can! We want to challenge you to a bit of a treasure hunt…for milestones! Did you know that these stoic waymarkers can be hundreds of years old? Milestones have been around since Roman times, but their heyday really began in the 1700s. They were designed not only to inform travellers of directions and distances, but to help coaches keep to schedule. At the height of their era, there were 20,000 miles of roads with milestones across Britain. Check out The Milestone Society website (www.milestonesociety.co.uk) for more details on their history. A large number of these mileposts have been lost from road realignment, broadening and other improvements throughout the centuries, but many remain hidden in plain sight both along the side of country roads and also in our towns. Can you help us find out how many still stand within the Galloway Glens? We can create a map of where the milestones once sat, but we need your help to find out if they’re still there and what condition they’re in. Some photos would be great too! Up for the challenge? Why not make it the focus of some of your next walks or trips out, on your own or with family and friends? We can give you the map, assign each milestone with its own unique number and provide you with a simple recording form to help you take notes. Tips on photographing your milestone: 1. Feel free to take photographs from more than one direction to give views of the milestone from all angles. 2. Take some photographs that have the milestone filling the frame, but also include one or two that are taken from a few metres away – it’s great to have a view of the feature in its setting to show what it sits on, what it’s next to and its distance from the roadside. 3. Close ups of any interesting details are also helpful, particularly any inscriptions, decoration or even later graffiti or defacing – it’s all a part of its history! 4. Please avoid having people in your photographs – this would bring up concerns over consent and we’d like the images to be available as a public resource. 5. We’re not looking for professionallevel photography here, don’t worry. Whatever you can capture is great and if it’s just one shot taken with your phone then we’d still love to have it! Pro tip www.what3words.com have assigned each 3m square in the world a unique three-word address that will never change. You can download their free app and use it to record the unique threeword address for your milestone. What if I don’t have a camera? What if the milestone’s not there? If you don’t have access to a camera or camera phone, then no problem. You can still record the milestone’s location and give us a description. Then it’ll be on record for people to visit it later if they want to take a photograph. We want to know that too! Many milestones were removed or defaced in World War II to baffle potential German invaders – another interesting part of their history! Be sure to check a bit further around the area just in case its been moved or is hidden in vegetation. It’s also possible that the line of the road has changed and the milestone might now sit further back. Also check to see if there are any remaining traces, such as a base or even just a depression in the ground – take a quick snap if you do spot anything! What if I don’t have a printer? If you don’t have access to a printer then just download our recording form to a mobile device or take a note of the headings as a guide for what you need to write down. What if the milestone sits on private property? Please do not enter private property without the permission of the landowner. If a milestone sits in private land and you’re unable to get permission, then you can still record and photograph it from a public space. This might mean that it’ll be from a distance, but this will still have value and more importantly, will respect the privacy of any residents. What will happen with the information? We’ll use the information to create a database of the milestones within the Galloway Glens area. This and any photographs will then be forwarded to the Dumfries and Galloway Council Archaeology Service who will add each site as a record into the Historic Environmental Record. This will preserve the knowledge and make it publicly available, but it will also highlight the milestones as a consideration for any future developments proposed in their area. Any More Questions If you have any questions about this project, just email helen.keron@dumgal.gov.uk or get in touch with us through the ‘Can You Dig It’ Facebook or Twitter accounts (@GGLPArchaeology). You can also let us know how you get on – feel free to share with us through email or on social media what you’ve managed to find – we’re always interested, and love a good photograph! Simply tag us by including @GGLPArchaeology in your post or tweet. Checklist You will need to take with you: · A copy of the milestone map from us, and the location of your selected stones. · A copy of the recording form, or pen and paper with headings for notes. · A camera or phone with camera. · A tape measure or ruler for measuring dimensions. · Some way of logging its location – either a smart phone with What3Words downloaded, a GPS or a good old-fashioned map! · Clothes and shoes suitable for the task – see our safety tips below. Stay safe: Recording Forms: This project involves working near roadsides, and your safety is more important than anything else – these stones have been around a while and they’ll be around for a while yet! A few tips to consider: For each milestone you find, we’d like you to give us a short description. To make this easier, we’ve created a recording form as a guide on what to write. · Stick to daylight hours and avoid weather where visibility is poor, such as fog or mist. · Avoid bad weather such as snow or ice. Remember rain will also make a grass verge slippery. · Stay vigilant for passing vehicles and follow the highway code when walking along or crossing roads. · Don’t stand on the road while doing any recording – do all notes and photography at a safe distance from the roadside. If you can’t get close to the milestone safely, then record what you can from a distance and use the zoom function on your camera. · Be as visible as you can – wear bright clothes or reflective clothing if you have it. · Be careful of obstacles such as barriers, road signs and vegetation. Also watch out for sharp litter. · Watch your step – road verges can often be uneven, sometimes quite steep or with hidden hollows or ditches, so take your time. · Watch out for animals that might be lurking and be careful around hedgerows which could contain nesting birds. · Avoid bare ankles or legs in long grass – ticks are common, opportunistic and spread Lyme Disease. Tuck your trousers into your shoes! · Take a note of the unique number that we have assigned to your milestone – this will be labelled on our map. · Record its location. If it’s where the map shows it, then just confirm ‘Yes’. If not, then there are a number of ways you can record its location – either as GPS coordinates, a what3words reference (see our Pro Tip above) or simply note where it is in relation to its mapped position e.g. 5m to the north of the map location. · Record its dimensions. Just a measurement of how high, wide and deep it is. · Give a description. Milestones vary in how they were made; some were of stone, others of cast iron and some a mixture of the two. They also varied in shape. Add in any details that you find interesting or think are relevant. Archaeologists also love a good annotated sketch (don’t worry, ours are rarely that good!), so feel free to use the back of the recording form if you want more space. · Is there an inscription? If so, write what it says, or what you can make out. · What condition is the milestone in? Is it damaged or defaced in any way? Has it been badly weathered or is it covered in vegetation or moss? How to send us your images & information: Email your notes and/or images through to helen.keron@dumgal.gov.uk · If you have used the recording form, you can either scan or photograph it & attach it to the email along with any photographs. · If not, then just type up your notes directly into the email. Good luck!! @GGLPArchaeology  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Are We There Yet? Information Sheet Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GGLP_66 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource GGLP Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource GCAT Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Description An account of the resource Are We There Yet? was delivered as part of Can You Dig It, the community archaeology project of the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership. GGLP heritage