‘The melody that’s sweetly played in tune’#—the heritage ecologies of the Ardeer Peninsula, North Ayrshire, Scotland

Alex Boyd and Lesley McFadyen

Landscape Research, 2025, vol. 50, issue 2, 368-385

Abstract: This photo essay explores the ways in which archaeology and photography work together and intervene in the world, to focus on landscapes that have been overlooked or actively ignored. It considers the site of a dynamite factory that was built by Alfred Nobel on the Ardeer Peninsula, Scotland, which has now been designated as a brownfield. The prevailing narrative is of industrial progress followed by ruination; where institutional archives memorialise Alfred Nobel, the technology of dynamite manufacture, and the built environment, they ignore the lives of those who worked there. This narrative sits alongside the way the present landscape is viewed as derelict and in need of redevelopment, ignoring the fauna and flora that thrive there. We take an other-than-human approach and consider how multiple species and processes come together at Ardeer. A vibrant and lively landscape is brought to the fore in terms of an archaeology of factory workers and a heritage site as an ecology.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2024.2416408

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