woven land network

The Woven Land Network is a Scottish focused voluntary collective network engaging with community in all parts of society to protect, conserve/restore, honour and advocate for Scotland’s community and folk heritage sites. The Woven Land Network focuses on sites intrinsic to community & folk heritage –  holy wells, springs, standing stones, monuments, meeting places & other ancient sites.  We focus on vulnerable or at risk sites with significant connection to community, oral history, folklore & people’s sense of identity. We provide a network for interested volunteers from all religions and backgrounds to collectively conserve & monitor these sites. The Woven Land …

You might be wondering what our expectations are for members, site monitors and or a site custodian. Below we’ve done our best to answer your questions as best we can. If you still have questions please just contact us and we’ll answer them for you. What’s the difference between a member, a site monitor and a custodian? We want everyone to be involved with the network and for it to take as little or as much time as our collective volunteers are able to provide. Some people might just like to know what’s going on and and attend some of our events …

We are looking for people like you to help protect vulnerable or at risk community or folk heritage sites such as wells, springs, ancient monuments, cairns, meeting places, caves and more all over Scotland to be site monitors or custodians. You can get involved in many ways such as volunteering your time to help monitor sites in your area or supporting our other activities. In exchange we can bring you together with other like minded folk, provide training, support meet up‘s, and our collective can help in the work required at the site to conserve it. We want you to be …

There is a strong tradition of taking the waters or drawing the water from a sacred spring or clootie wells at certain times of the year, or for traditional charms and invocations. These waters are used in 40% of the Scottish folk magic charms for which we have a written record, and so are an important and irreplaceable part of our Scottish heritage.  Today some springs and wells have dried up, moved location or been intentionally sealed in some way.  The principle of ‘do no harm’ can be applied to springs and wells by asking yourself a few questions before you decide …

If you wish for the blessings of a sacred site to go with you when you leave, take not only your own rubbish, but also the rubbish left by others. Dispose of it responsibly. Consider the act of taking litter away as the reciprocal exchange that you make for visiting a site. ASLan This page follows on from our site conservation guidance for visitors. It’s been written to further explain the information in these guidelines for folks who may need more information. We respectfully ask that you minimise your impact on a site when your visit. The “leave no trace” principle means leaving …