Carbon Legacy is a multi-disciplinary response to the Cursus Monument in Kilmartin Glen. c.3,600 BCE, our ancestors created a monument: 375 oak trees cut down and re-erected in a 400 metre elongated u-shape, and then ritually burnt.

Carbonisation, deforestation, charcoal remains. Carbon marks on the landscape that resonate with the human-induced climate crisis. This monument has left us a literal carbon footprint.

 375 living trees act as a reminder, restoring what was taken, gifting to the future. Can we choose to create alternative monuments and become good ancestors?

375 oak saplings will be planted, as a collaborative action, around the site where the original monument stood, and in the museum grounds, towards the end of the exhibition period, creating a living legacy in Kilmartin Glen. This grove has been set up to compliment and support this work and extend the legacy of the exhibition. Thank you for supporting this and leaving a legacy for the future x