This project explores how interactive digital heritage experiences can make the process of artefact interpretation more visible. As artefacts are discovered and brought into different relationships, the prototype shows how interpretations can develop progressively instead of remaining fixed.

Developed through a case study of the Scottish Crannog Centre, the interactive experience takes users from excavation to a series of interpretation stages. Individual artefacts are first introduced separately, before being brought together in pairs and finally as a three object combination. At each stage, new information and possible relationships are revealed, allowing different understandings to emerge from the same group of evidence.

The project uses interaction not simply to increase user participation, but to structure when and how interpretation is encountered. Through this approach, the prototype explores how digital heritage can communicate the changing, uncertain and interpretative nature of understanding the past.