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The Southdean Project and Beyond — ‘Essaying’ Site as Memory Work

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This chapter offers a reflective account of the production of my artist’s book Between Carterhaugh and Tamshiel Rig (Biggs, 2004). This book is one outcome of my Southdean Project, engaging with a physical site just north of the English–Scottish border and with a fictional site central to the traditional Borders ballad Tam Lin, which deals with fairy capture, love and magical transformation, all framed within the context of an early medieval quasi-pagan Borders culture. These two sites are important because one belongs to a physical archaeological heritage that is rapidly being lost while the other paradoxically continues to exist within the fictional context of the ballad.

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  1. Countryside and Community Research Institute, UK

    Owain Jones

  2. University of Gloucestershire, UK

    Joanne Garde-Hansen

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Biggs, I. (2012). The Southdean Project and Beyond — ‘Essaying’ Site as Memory Work. In: Jones, O., Garde-Hansen, J. (eds) Geography and Memory. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137284075_7

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