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About Monument Monitor
The climate has changed dramatically in Scotland, the amount of rainfall recorded on the
wettest days has also risen dramatically in the last 60 years on the West Coast, with 36% more rainfall now recorded on the wettest days compared to the totals recorded on average between 1961 and 1990. This is having an affect on our historic sites, in which structures were designed constructed to fit a specific environment.
In this project we want your help to monitor how the changing climate is affecting Machrie Moor Standing Stone Circles, a neolithic monument on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. As the site is unstaffed, we have asked visitors to submit their images of their visit over the past 3 years. We want you to identify where and when the site is waterlogged so we can get a better understanding of how the changing climate is affecting it.
We are hoping to map levels of water-logging with historical weather data. Using this information, we hope to model how often the site has been waterlogged over the past couple of years as well as how how often it is likely to be waterlogged over the coming years. This will help the managers of the site assess how to best preserve the buried archaeology throughout the landscape.
This is part of the Monument Monitor project, which uses visitors photographs to help monitor remote heritage sites across Scotland.