Articles by Edward C Stewart
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2023
Recent investigations in Gleann Leac-na-Muidhe, Glencoe, have provided an insight into the prac-t... more Recent investigations in Gleann Leac-na-Muidhe, Glencoe, have provided an insight into the prac-tising of transhumance and related industries in these uplands in the post-medieval period. Survey has identified a number of new features within this landscape, allowing us to build a nuanced pic-ture of how this landscape was being used and managed for both grazing and fuel. The interaction of the chiefly settlement of Gleann Leac-na-Muidhe with the associated shieling grounds provides an opportunity to explore the expression of power and protection by local elites upon the upland landscape during periods of civil strife. Excavations carried out within the glen provide an insight into some of the practices associated with these structures, from the domestic rituals of daily life to acts of resistance, including illicit whisky stilling, through which the exercise of social and economic control of the uplands can be read.
Antiquity, 2021
The ancient city of Gabii-an Italian polity of the first millennium BC and a peer to early Rome-h... more The ancient city of Gabii-an Italian polity of the first millennium BC and a peer to early Rome-has often been presented as an example of urban decline, a counterpoint to Rome's rise from a collection of hilltop huts to a Mediterranean hegemon. Here the authors draw on the results from recent excavations at Gabii that challenge such simplistic models of urban history. Diachronic evidence documenting activity at the site over the course of 1400 years highlights shifting values and rhythms materialised in the maintenance, transformation and abandonment of different urban components. This complex picture of adaptation and resilience provides a model of ancient urbanism that calls into question outdated narratives of urban success and failure.
Scottish Archaeological Journal, 2020
Cities have an immortal quality in the minds of their inhabitants, enduring over the span of thei... more Cities have an immortal quality in the minds of their inhabitants, enduring over the span of their lifetimes, ever changing yet familiar as every new stratigraphic relationship in the city's fabric is thrust, hacked or crammed into the centuries and millennia of anthropogenic stratum that shaped the place to that point. What role does this deep time play in the lives of the shoppers, commuters, dwellers, and workers who interact with the largely invisible urban prehistoric landscape? This paper reports on experiential landscape research focused on a possible prehistoric site in Glasgow, the Camphill enclosure, in Queen's Park. An account of the site has been provided detailing the academic histories from antiquarian rediscovery to the present, current interactions, and a phenomenology-based interpretative narrative of past. The paper concludes with a critique of the research undertaken highlighting the limitations of both the methods and practices and some thoughts on deep time in urban places.
Thesis Chapters by Edward C Stewart
Thesis, 2021
The study of urbanism has been dogged by the legacies of the enlightenment era fixation on an ide... more The study of urbanism has been dogged by the legacies of the enlightenment era fixation on an idealised classical world during the birth of such disciplines as city planning resulted in the construction of idealised forms of the city based of sanitised visions of the classical city. Through the ideologies and actions of politicians, planners and bureaucrats, the representation of the idealised city has resulted in the production of spaces of real urbanism, hidden within and around the city. In these spaces those functions essential to the life of the modern city, yet considered improper in the idealised city, are hidden. These spaces, known as the edgelands, encompass everything from suburban landfill sites and municipal waste treatment landscapes, to abandoned railway yards, derelict factory sites and wastelands within the inner city.
In this research an exploration of the urban edgeland landscape of Mount Vernon and Daldowie, in Glasgow, Scotland, is considered in the production of an archaeology of ‘real urbanism’, concerned not with the idealised city of elite archaeologies of urbanism, but instead with the grim realities of those spaces sanitised from that vision of the city yet essential to its functioning.
Drafts by Edward C Stewart
Data Structure Report, 2022
Interim report on fieldwork carried out in Gleann Leac-na-Muidhe Glencoe including walkover surve... more Interim report on fieldwork carried out in Gleann Leac-na-Muidhe Glencoe including walkover survey and excavation of Post-Medieval Upland features.
Papers by Edward C Stewart
The ancient city of Gabii-an Italian polity of the first millennium BC and a peer to early Rome-h... more The ancient city of Gabii-an Italian polity of the first millennium BC and a peer to early Rome-has often been presented as an example of urban decline, a counterpoint to Rome's rise from a collection of hilltop huts to a Mediterranean hegemon. Here the authors draw on the results from recent excavations at Gabii that challenge such simplistic models of urban history. Diachronic evidence documenting activity at the site over the course of 1400 years highlights shifting values and rhythms materialised in the maintenance, transformation and abandonment of different urban components. This complex picture of adaptation and resilience provides a model of ancient urbanism that calls into question outdated narratives of urban success and failure.
Antiquity
The ancient city of Gabii—an Italian polity of the first millennium BC and a peer to early Rome—h... more The ancient city of Gabii—an Italian polity of the first millennium BC and a peer to early Rome—has often been presented as an example of urban decline, a counterpoint to Rome's rise from a collection of hilltop huts to a Mediterranean hegemon. Here the authors draw on the results from recent excavations at Gabii that challenge such simplistic models of urban history. Diachronic evidence documenting activity at the site over the course of 1400 years highlights shifting values and rhythms materialised in the maintenance, transformation and abandonment of different urban components. This complex picture of adaptation and resilience provides a model of ancient urbanism that calls into question outdated narratives of urban success and failure.
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Articles by Edward C Stewart
Thesis Chapters by Edward C Stewart
In this research an exploration of the urban edgeland landscape of Mount Vernon and Daldowie, in Glasgow, Scotland, is considered in the production of an archaeology of ‘real urbanism’, concerned not with the idealised city of elite archaeologies of urbanism, but instead with the grim realities of those spaces sanitised from that vision of the city yet essential to its functioning.
Drafts by Edward C Stewart
Papers by Edward C Stewart
In this research an exploration of the urban edgeland landscape of Mount Vernon and Daldowie, in Glasgow, Scotland, is considered in the production of an archaeology of ‘real urbanism’, concerned not with the idealised city of elite archaeologies of urbanism, but instead with the grim realities of those spaces sanitised from that vision of the city yet essential to its functioning.