EAFS CONTEXT MAP

An overview of some of the cultural factors that shape, and are shaped by the land in Dumfries & Galloway.

The 2013 and 2015 festivals were both deeply rooted in the landscape of Dumfries & Galloway but the 2013 festival covered much of the region, hills, coastline, rivers and forests. The 2015 festival aimed to create an interesting debate and discussion but focused on one area in Upper Nithsdale that sits just above the valley and below some high hills, a good place for contemplating the future. In 2013 we worked with many landowners and managers including Barony College, Forestry Commission Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage.  For the 2015 festival we had full access to Morton Castle and its surroundings and were able to set up a temporary community thanks to the Duke of Buccleuch.

Matt Baker was deeply involved in the development of an environmental art map for the programme in the first festival. The multilayered map was an artwork in itself. For the 2015 festival Matt worked closely with artist/architect Andy McAvoy to produce user friendly maps which helped people connect to the EAFS community at Morton Castle and the wider landscape. Good mapping has been crucial to help people connect confidently with the land and the region.

NB – not all these sites are accessible to the public

Dot1Focus Points

Associated with ideas, events and connections

1. Luce Sands – ancient gathering place

2. Logan Garden – botanical gardens

3. Portpatrick – closest port to Ireland

4. Purgatory Burn – boundary of leper colony, Glenluce Abbey

5. Corsewall – gardens laid out in troop formation of Battle of Corunna

6. St. Ninian’s Cave – shoreline retreat of Scotland’s first saint

7. Wigtown Martyr’s Stake – Covenanting site

8. Dry Stone Walling Association – founded in Fleet Valley

9. Gatehouse of Fleet – planned settlement

10. Anwoth Kirk – ruin and Wicker Man film location

11. Rhonehouse – ancient horse fair

12. Alternative lifestyles – Laurieston, Orchardton, Kilquanity, Wickerman

13. River Doon/River Dee watershed

14. Wigtown – book festival town

15. Kirkcudbright – artists’ colony

16. Sanquhar – Covenantors’ Declarations

17. Devil’s Beef Tub – covenanting and reiving

18. Sources of Clyde, Annan, Tweed – between Elvanfoot and Moffat

19. Lochwood Oaks – ancient woodland

20. Samye Ling – Tibetan Buddhist Monastery

21. Scots Dyke – Scots/English border

22. Durisdeer – Duke of Queensberry tomb, Covenanter graves and Roman Road

23. Knockengorroch – World Ceilidh

24. Red Kite Trail

Dot3Survivals

Remains from other times

1. Mull of Galloway – earthworks

2. Kirkmadrine – early medieval monuments

3. Cairnerzean Fell – Bronze Age Settlement

4. Whitefield Loch – Crannog

5. Torhouse Stone Circle – Kirkowan

6. Whithorn Priory – Early Christian Centre and School of Sculpture

7. Barsalloch Fort – earthwork

8. Knockman Wood – Neolithic Cairns and Corn Drying Kiln

9. Cairnholy – Neolithic Burial Monument

10. Trusty’s Hill Fort – Pictish symbol carvings

11. Mote of Urr – earthwork

12. Dunragit – one of the most important Stone Age sites in Scotland

13. Polmaddy – pre 1700 village

14. Lochrinnie Mote and Bailey

15. Sweetheart Abbey

16. High Banks, Kirkcudbright – Cup and Ring marked Stones

17. Caerlaverock Castle

18. Glenluce Abbey

19. Glenlochar Bastle and Fermtoun – Reiving stronghold

20. Ruthwell Cross – earliest Anglo-Saxon inscription

21. Burnswark – Roman Fort and Ballista siege

22. Lochmaben stone – gathering place and marker

23. Mote of Mark – early medieval Fort and Metal Foundry

24. 12 Apostles Stone Circle – Holywood

25. Nith Bridge Cross – Thornhill

26. Promontory Fort – Caspin

Dot2Force Fields

Resources and energy in landscape

1. Salt Pan Bay – smuggling site

2. Loch Ryan – industry and military

3. The Scares Islands – gathering plastic and guano

4. Garlieston – practice site for D-Day Landings

5. Galloway Forest – commercial plantation

6. Ken Valley Hydroelectric Scheme

7. Tongland – Galloway Car factory and hydro power

8. Dundrennan – military zone

9. Polwhat Rig and Gallow Rig – Windfarms

10. Wanlockhead and Leadhills – lead mines

11. Loch Doon – Aerial Gunnery School 1916

12. Clyde Wind Farm – Elvanfoot

13. Corncockle Quarry – historic sandstone quarry

14. Chapelcross – former nuclear power station

15. Proposed Data Farm – Ecclefechan

16. Open Cast Mining – Crawick

17. Minnygap Wind Farm – Ae

18. Gretna WW1 Munitions Factory

19. Dalbeattie Granite Quarries

20. Creetown Granite Quarries

21. Robin Rigg – offshore wind farm

22. Stevenscroft – Biomass Power Station, Lockerbie

23. Buccleuch Estates – largest private landowner in Britain

Dot4People and Places

1. Miss Flora Stuart of Mochrum – pioneer Belted Galloway cattle breeder

2. William Nicholson – poet ‘The Brownie of Blednoch’

3. Gavin Maxwell – author and naturalist, Monreith House

4. John McNellie – author ‘The Wigtown Ploughman’

5. John McTaggart of Borgue – author ‘The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia’

6. James Beaumont Neilson – Hot Blast Iron Making – monument, Ringford

7. James Clerk Maxwell – physicist, Parton

8. Emerson and Carlyle – poets, stayed at Craigenputtock

9. Robert Burns – poet, Ellisland

10. Old Mortality – sculptor, Dumfries, Newton Stewart, Balmaclennan

11. J. M. Barrie – playwright, Dumfries

12. James Hogg Poet – St. Mary’s Loch / Ettrick Forest

13. Hugh MacDiarmid – poet, Langholm

14. Kirkpatrick McMillan – inventor of the bicycle, Keir Mill

15. Robert Burns – poet, Dumfries

Dot5Contemporary Environmental Art

1. New Luce ‘Nineveh’ – Matt Baker

2. Rosnes Benches – Dalziel and Scullion (in progress)

3. Dark Skies Residency – Jo Hodges and Robbie Coleman

4. Striding Arches – Andy Goldsworthy

5. Star of Caledonia – Cecil Balmond and Charles Jencks (in progress)

6. Penkiln Burn – Bill Drummond

7. Creetown – various works: Hideo Furuta, Iain Cant, Alex Rigg, The Stove (in progress)

8. Cairnsmore / Dromore – Matt Baker and Mary Smith

9. Crawick Artland – Charles Jencks (in progress)

10. Look North – Andy Goldsworthy

11. Shinglehook – Matt Baker

12. Wickerman site – Trevor Leat and Alex Rigg

13. The Ploughshare – Will Levi Marshall

14. 7 Stanes – Gordon Young

15. Galloway Forest Park – Colin Rose, Matt Baker, Doug Cocker, Jim Buchanan and others

16. Grizedale Forest Sculpture

17. Little Sparta – Ian Hamilton-Finlay

18. Garden of Cosmic Speculation – Charles Jencks

19. Glenkiln – Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin, Jacob Epstein

20. Millenium Cairn – Andy Goldsworthy

21. MacDiarmid Memorial Langholm – Jake Harvey

22. Wanlockhead – Buchanan + Varley (in progress)