Stall at Glasgow Science Centre event
Stall at Glasgow Science Centre event
Meet the Expert sign
I’m at @glasgowscience.bsky.social this evening with Jamie Blair to share #KelvinWheelies excavation results and show off some retro skateboarding kit for their Science Late Timewarp event. Lots of love for skateboarding heritage!
Tonite! #KelvinWheelies 🛹🤟🏻
Featuring the #KelvinWheelies skatepark excavations in episode 1!
Congratulations to all these projects. But I can’t believe the hologram of Denis Law we found in a 1978 concrete skatepark bowl at #KelvinWheelies didn’t make this list!!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is a fantastic piece about the #KelvinWheelies excavations but also the remarkable story of two other heritage skateparks at Greenfield & West Vancouver. Credit to Cole Nowicki for pulling this together & getting up very early to interview me!
www.simplemagic.ca/a-world-wher...
Kelvin Wheelies backfilling team
Section drawing at Kelvin Wheelies
Skateboards
We backfilled the #KelvinWheelies trenches today. It’s been an amazing few days of skateboarding archaeology & I want to thank our awesome team, Kieran of Archaeology Scotland, Glasgow City Council, our funders @socantscot.bsky.social and the legend that is Jamie Blair of Clan Skates. 🛹
Last day on site for the #KelvinWheelies archaeological dig.
Been listening to expert Jamie Blair, talking w/ Ray Dower, re construction & community of the late 1970/80s Kelvingrove skatepark against the backdrop of the wider Scottish & global skateboarding movement: tinyurl.com/KelvinWheelies
Opened in 1978, this was Scotland's first skate park. The excavations have revealed that there's a surprsing amount of it left just below the surface. I think this was the side-by-side slalom run.
#glasgow #kelvingrovepark #kelvinwheelies #skateboarding #archaeology #urbanarchaeology
Part of the current archaeological excavations of the Kelvin Wheelies Skate Park in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow.
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#glasgow #kelvingrovepark #kelvinwheelies #skateboarding #archaeology #urbanarchaeology
Kelvin Wheelies team on University Avenue
Kelvin Wheelies team on University Avenue
@uofglasgow.bsky.social the perfect backdrop for the #KelvinWheelies mobile archaeology tool store and office!
Archaeologists Are Digging Up Scotland's Very First Outdoor Skatepark: Kelvin Wheelies skatepark, which hosted the country's first national skateboarding competition, has been buried under rubble for decades @SmithsonianMag #Archaeology #Skateboarding #Scotland #History #KelvinWheelies
Kevin Wheelies Project 🛹
We hade some of the skateboarders from the original skatepark come along to see what we were up to and share stories yesterday! Stories behind the digs are one of our favourite parts of archaeology 😊
#kelvinwheelies #archaeologyscotland #archaeologyforall #hesfunded
Excavation at Kelvin Wheelies
Denis Law pic
Yes we have found a hologram of Denis Law in Trench 6. Total archaeology!! #KelvinWheelies
Kelvin Wheelies excavation trench
Kelvin Wheelies excavation trench
Kelvin Wheelies excavation trench
Not much posting today as we were so busy with visitors on site today. But the team have done an awesome job exposing several sections of the concrete runs & bowls at #KelvinWheelies!
Archaeological excavations at Kelvin Wheelies skatepark
This is a truly beautiful section! It’s cut through the Cobra slalom run at #KelvinWheelies. Hats off to @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social for overseeing a cracking piece of archaeology in this trench!
Photo of a trench exposing a concrete Skate Ramp
Photo of a fragment of a TipTop sachet
Photo of an old Twix wrapper
Picture of a small Lino fragment
So grateful I could join in the #KelvinWheelies for two days. Had an amazing time digging out Trench 3 (pictured) with an amazing team of volunteers and Glasgow Uni students.
Amazing to fully expose a small part of the Skate Park structure and get a beautiful section of how it was filled in 1983!
Is this a first for an archaeological toolkit?
#Kelvinwheelies
Brush on a train
Specialised concrete cleaning tool ready for action today at the #KelvinWheelies skatepark excavations in Glasgow. Let’s get wheels on concrete again! 🛹
Penguin wrapper found on the Kelvin Wheelies excavation
More backfilling snacks from #KelvinWheelies - we found packaging from a 6 pack of Penguin biscuits and a Twix wrapper at the base of the Cobra slalom run - both with BB dates in 1983. The year the skatepark was buried by the Council.
I've been using Jamie Blair's fantastic article and original photographs to follow the #KelvinWheelies fieldwork. So much flared denim but I'm still not sure where this trench is ... yet.
www.northskatemag.com/blogs/north-...
Trench from Kelvin Wheelies excavations
The Cobra slalom run at #KelvinWheelies is gradually being revealed in two slots. This one shows it quickly curving to a concrete base, the other slot is 1m deep!
I'm following the #KelvinWheelies archaeological excavation in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park this week and have been watching this Super 8 recording of the 1979 UK Championships. I'm so used to modern phone/digital cameras, I'd forgotten how loud film cameras were!
youtu.be/pBOCQXKDl5Q?...
KP Outer Spacers
KP Crisp bag found on Kelvin Wheelies excavation
We’ve found evidence for a snack enjoyed by the team backfilling #KelvinWheelies slalom run
#KPOuterSpacers
Kelvin Wheelies excavation
Busy on site this morning exploring the concrete slalom runs at #KelvinWheelies
I've been trying to get my bearings via archives & other online resources as the photos of the #KelvinWheelies excavation Day 1 have been posted ... first one spotted today, the 'Cobra Run'.
Image c. 1980 by Jamie Blair - skate/bording expert & dig volunteer - via www.northskatemag.com
Slalom run at Kelvin Wheelies during excavation
Slalom Conra run at Kelvin Wheelies during excavation
Great first day at the #KelvinWheelies project. The transition into the slalom run cleared down to concrete, and good progress made on emptying a slot in the Cobra snake run. Loads of visitors too and some Glasgow sun too!
Slot through the Cobra run at Kelvin Wheelies
Digging a slot into the Cobra run at #KelvinWheelies. It’s already clear the concrete is still in very good condition.
