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Stall at Glasgow Science Centre event

Stall at Glasgow Science Centre event

Stall at Glasgow Science Centre event

Stall at Glasgow Science Centre event

Meet the Expert sign

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!

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Tonite! #KelvinWheelies 🛹🤟🏻

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Featuring the #KelvinWheelies skatepark excavations in episode 1!

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#KelvinWheelies

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What were Scotland's top archaeological finds in 2025? Discoveries on the list include a lost medieval village and a hillfort possibly attacked by the Romans.

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...

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A world where things matter Digging up, resurrecting, and celebrating the history of forgotten skateparks.

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...

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Kelvin Wheelies backfilling team

Kelvin Wheelies backfilling team

Section drawing at Kelvin Wheelies

Section drawing at Kelvin Wheelies

Skateboards

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. 🛹

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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

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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

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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

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Kelvin Wheelies team on University Avenue

Kelvin Wheelies team on University Avenue

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!

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#KelvinWheelies - nice piece recorded today

dai.ly/x9pm268

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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

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

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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

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Excavation at Kelvin Wheelies

Excavation at Kelvin Wheelies

Denis Law pic

Denis Law pic

Yes we have found a hologram of Denis Law in Trench 6. Total archaeology!! #KelvinWheelies

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Kelvin Wheelies excavation trench

Kelvin Wheelies excavation trench

Kelvin Wheelies excavation trench

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!

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Archaeological excavations at Kelvin Wheelies skatepark

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!

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Photo of a trench exposing a concrete Skate Ramp

Photo of a trench exposing a concrete Skate Ramp

Photo of a fragment of a TipTop sachet

Photo of a fragment of a TipTop sachet

Photo of an old Twix wrapper

Photo of an old Twix wrapper

Picture of a small Lino fragment

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!

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Is this a first for an archaeological toolkit?
#Kelvinwheelies

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Brush on a train

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! 🛹

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Penguin wrapper found on the Kelvin Wheelies excavation

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.

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#KelvinWheelies

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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-...

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Trench from Kelvin Wheelies excavations

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!

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1979 UK Skateboard Champs Kelvingrove
1979 UK Skateboard Champs Kelvingrove YouTube video by ClanSkatesGlasgow

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?...

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KP Outer Spacers

KP Outer Spacers

KP Crisp bag found on Kelvin Wheelies excavation

KP Crisp bag found on Kelvin Wheelies excavation

We’ve found evidence for a snack enjoyed by the team backfilling #KelvinWheelies slalom run
#KPOuterSpacers

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Kelvin Wheelies excavation

Kelvin Wheelies excavation

Busy on site this morning exploring the concrete slalom runs at #KelvinWheelies

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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

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Slalom run at Kelvin Wheelies during excavation

Slalom run at Kelvin Wheelies during excavation

Slalom Conra 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!

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Slot through the Cobra run at Kelvin Wheelies

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.

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