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Events guide Iùl thachartasan
Highland Archaeology Festival Fèis Arc-eòlais na Gàidhealtachd
25th Sept - 15th Oct 2021
Celebrating Archaeology, History and Heritage A’Comharrachadh Arc-eòlas, Eachdraidh is Dualchas
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Historic Assynt Welcome to Highland Archaeology Festival 2021 Fàilte gu Fèis Arc-eòlais na Gàidhealtachd 2021
We are very pleased to be able to bring you a packed programme for our 2021 Festival. This includes plenty of new events and covers areas that we haven’t reached before so I hope you are ready to get outside and explore. We aim to celebrate our shared history and archaeology and showcase the incredible heritage on our doorstep as well as the importance of protecting this for future generations. The educational and economic benefits that this can bring to communities cannot be overstated. The council is not yet able to bring you a conference in person, as had been hoped, but building on last year’s Festival of Talks, we have again produced a programme of excellent online talks which will run over weekday lunchtimes and evenings throughout the three weeks of the festival. Our Festival of Talks last year allowed us to reach out to new audiences – and include new speakers – from across the world, as well as those of you living in the Highlands who may never have been able to attend in person. We are encouraged that this is an approach we will continue to include for future years. Our focus is again on recent discoveries and research, but we will also have a themed session on Tourism and Heritage as well as the launches of the Highland Regional Research Framework, the extended Pictish Trail and the long-awaited publication of the internationally important excavation at Culduthel. New research is being carried out daily by both local groups and universities as well as in advance of construction. Highland Council is committed to making the results of this work available, either through our award-winning Historic Environment Record (HER) website or through our programme of events for the festival. I would like to thank all our event organisers for their time, imagination and effort as the festival would not be possible without them. Tha mi a’ guidhe fèis air leth soirbheachail is tlachdmhor dhuibh. I wish you all a very successful and enjoyable festival.
Councillor Trish Robertson Chair of the Economy and Infrastructure Committee
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For all your archaeological needs: Planning Conditions Community Projects Museum Support Based in the Highlands [email protected] 07715817552
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£ Entry charge For all outdoor walks ensure you have suitable F/D Free, but donations welcome footwear for rough walking (preferably boots) and bring waterproofs and warm clothing. Children welcome with adult Event primarily for children Walks: Level 1: a simple walk, appropriate for all Dogs welcome if on lead reasonably mobile people Bring a packed lunch Level 2: a longer or more rigorous walk Suitable for wheelchair access appropriate for those used to walking in the Online event outdoors Level 3: a long or strenuous walk demanding a Archaeology for Communities in the ARCH moderate degree of fitness and health Highlands NoSAS North of Scotland Archaeology Society Where appropriate we have added reference numbers (format MHG1234) to find out MHG MHG Reference numbers to sites in more about sites in the Highland Historic the Highland Historic Environment Environment Record, the most complete record Record (her.highland.gov.uk). of archaeological sites and historic buildings for No bookings are needed the Highland region. Just visit her.highland.gov.uk, unless specified and type in the reference number.
For further information, updates and late entries check out the Highland Archaeology Festival website www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org BS Badenoch and Strathspey Trails TRAILS CA Caithness HAF Geocaching Trail Geocaching is a popular hobby where people IN Inverness Area find hidden caches, armed only with grid references. We’ve hidden a number of HAF LO Lochaber geocaches throughout the Highlands, and have signposted people towards others hidden near MO Moray archaeological and historical sites. To find out more, see the HAF Geocaching Trail NA Nairn page on the HAF website www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org. RC Ross and Cromarty More information about geocaching can be found at www.geocaching.com. SL Skye and Lochalsh Self Guided Trails SU Sutherland A variety of self-guided trails have been published over the years and are available on paper, to download, or to view on the web. The AR Argyll brochure contains a list of some of the ones available. The website will include updates of To request this booklet in large others we hear about. print phone 01463 702504
5 TRAILS Heritage along the Kyle Line Self Guided Trails A leaflet to accompany the Dingwall to Kyle of Corrieyairack Pass Lochalsh railway journey, created by an ARCH Available from Highland Council website project. Available from Dingwall Station or SAE www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/ from ARCH, The Goods Shed, The Old Station, download/184/sites_and_heritage_trails Strathpeffer IV14 9DH.
Slochd to Sluggan: A Walk around Munlochy General Wade’s Military Road Walk leaflet to explore Munlochy, created by Part of NoSAS’ Historical Routes project. ARCH project. Available from Available from www.archhighland.org.uk/library.asp www.nosas.co.uk/historicalroutes.asp Evanton Airfield Past and Present Walk the Yarrows Archaeology Trail Trail of WWII remains at Evanton, created by Available from Highland Council website ARCH project. Available from Cornerstone Café www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/ and www.archhighland.org.uk/library.asp download/184/sites_and_heritage_trails Hidden Black Isle Trail Castlehill Flagstone Trail Trail to some of the hidden gems, mainly Available from Highland Council website heritage, on the Black Isle. Available on the web www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/ at www.black-isle.info/hidden.asp download/184/sites_and_heritage_trails Guide to Kirkmichael in the Black Isle Caithness Broch Trail A guide to the church and graveyard. Available from Caithness Broch Project website Available on the web at www.thebrochproject.co.uk/additional-info www.kirkmichael.info/LeafletsPage.html
Inverness: Building on Slavery Explore the ‘Chanonry’ – a walking tour Circular walk around sites and buildings with around early Fortrose connections to the slave trade and plantations Walking tour of Fortrose produced by the of the Caribbean and South America. Available Kirkmichael Trust. online at www.davidalston.info/ Available on the Kirkmichael Trust website www.kirkmichael.info/LeafletsPage.html Explore Archaeology in Rural Inverness Available from Highland Council website Cromarty: A Walk to the West www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/ A walk taking in a rich mixture of Cromarty’s download/184/sites_and_heritage_trails heritage. Available on the web at www.davidalston.info/ Academy Street, Inverness Self-guided digital trail from Inverness Cromarty: Building on Slavery Townscape Heritage Project A self-guided walk visiting sites and buildings in academyst.highlandexplore.scot Cromarty connected to the slave plantations of the Caribbean and South America. Available on A Walk Around Strathpeffer web at www.davidalston.info/ Walk leaflet created by ARCH project exploring the spa town. Available from Highland Museum The Old Drove Road from Aultguish to Little of Childhood, or Garve Bridge www.archhighland.org.uk/library.asp Part of NoSAS’ Historical Routes project. Available from Invergordon World War I Trail www.nosas.co.uk/historicalroutes.asp Walk leaflet showing World War I remains in Invergordon created by ARCH project. Available The Old Road from Clachan Church, Loch from Invergordon Museum and Broom to Dundonnel, Little Loch Broom www.archhighland.org.uk/library.asp Part of NoSAS’ Historical Routes project. Available from www.nosas.co.uk/historicalroutes.asp
6 The Tollie Path from Poolewe to Slattadale Strathnaver Trail and Strathnaver Trail Map Part of NoSAS’ Historical Routes project. Available from Highland Council website Available from www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/ www.nosas.co.uk/historicalroutes.asp download/184/sites_and_heritage_trails
Gairloch’s Roundhouses The Ord Lairg Archaeology Trail Downloadable walk leaflet, or a more detailed Available from Highland Council website map can be purchased from Gairloch Museum www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/ in person or from website shop. download/184/sites_and_heritage_trails www.bit.ly/RoundhousesWalk Historic Map of Lairg An Historic Walk around Portree Village map of historic buildings and locations, Linked to commemorative plaques in the published by Lairg Local History Society. village. Available from various places in Portree Available from Ferrycroft Visitor Centre and including the Tourist Information Office. other local outlets.
Brora Industrial Heritage Trail Historic Assynt Heritage Trails Leaflet available from Brora Heritage Centre. Five walking trails to Clachtoll, Cnoc nan Each, Eadar a’ Chalder, Kirkton and Ledbeg Dornoch www.clachtollbroch.com/visit Featuring key points in Dornoch’s history. Leaflets available from Historylinks Museum. Highland Pictish Trail New, revised and expanded trail to explore Telford in the Kyle of Sutherland the Pictish past in the Highlands. Leaflet and Trail of Telford remains in the Kyle of Sutherland mobile phone self-guided tours available on created by an ARCH project. Available from www.highlandpictishtrail.co.uk. Printed copies www.archhighland.org.uk/library.asp in the of the leaflet can be found at various locations Telford in the Highlands folder on the trail.
From the Highland Council Historic Environment Team While planning this year’s festival, uncertainty still remains concerning Covid regulations, for both event organisers and museums. Numbers may have to be limited at some events, so please check with the organisers if in any doubt. We’re delighted that we could produce a full programme this year, with the conference talks still taking place online. Please look after this brochure as it will be the final one printed before we move the festival programme online plus a printed flyer! We would like to thank Historic Environment Scotland for supporting the festival this year.
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7 Museums and Archives Open during HAF There is some uncertainty over opening dates and times during HAF due to Covid. Face coverings or bookings may be required depending on Covid guidelines for visits. Phone ahead or check website or Facebook to confirm hours especially if travelling a distance. Note that this list is only museums/archives which have confirmed details. Others may be open as well. Kilmartin Museum, Strathnaver Museum and Nucleus Archive are closed for renovation. HPT denotes on the Highland Pictish Trail.
Clan MacPherson Museum Contact museum for details 01540 673332 F/D Grantown Museum Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun 11am-3pm 01479 872478 £
BS Highland Folk Museum 10:30am-4pm 01349 781650 F/D Castlehill Heritage Centre Sun 1:30-4:30pm 01847 821120 F/D Dunbeath Heritage Centre Tue & Wed 10am-3pm 01593 731233 £ HPT CA Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre To Sept: 10am-4pm; Oct onwards: Wed-Sun 10am-4pm 01463 796090 £ Fort George, including Highlanders Museum 10am-4pm 01667 460232 £
IN Highland Archive Centre Mon-Fri. Contact for details 01349 781130 F/D Inverness Museum & Art Gallery Tue-Sat 10am-5pm 01349 781730 F/D HPT Urquhart Castle 9:30am-6pm 01456 450551 £ Wardlaw Mausoleum Phone for times or access 01463 831742 Suggested donation £3 Arisaig Land, Sea and Islands Centre 10am-4pm 01687 450771 F/D Clan Cameron Museum Contact museum for details 07900 217975 £
LO Glencoe Folk Museum Contact museum for details 01855 811664 £ Glenfinnan Station Museum Mon-Sat 9am-5pm; Sun 10am-5pm 01397 722295 £ Lochaber Archive Centre Contact archive for details 01397 707050 F/D Mallaig Heritage Centre Sept: 11am-5pm; Oct 11am-4pm 01687 462085 £ West Highland Museum Tue-Fri 10am-2pm 01397 702169 F/D Brodie Castle Contact museum for details 01309 641371 £ Burghead Visitor Centre To end Sept: 12-4pm 01343 835518 F/D Elgin Museum Contact museum for details 01343 543675 F/D MO Cawdor Castle To 3rd Oct: 10am-3pm 01667 404401 £ Nairn Museum Contact museum for details 01667 456791 £ NA Alness Heritage Centre Mon-Fri 10am-4pm 01349 883005 F/D Applecross Heritage Centre Mon-Sat 12-4pm 01520 744255 F/D HPT Cromarty Courthouse Museum 25th, 26th, 28th, 29th, 30th Sept 12-4pm. RC Group bookings outwith dates. 01381 600418 F/D Dingwall Museum To Sept: Thu-Sat 1-4pm 01349 865366 F/D HPT Gairloch Museum Mon-Sat 10am-5pm 01445 712287 £ HPT Groam House Museum 1:30-4:15pm 01381 620961 F/D HPT Highland Museum of Childhood Thu-Sat 11am-4pm; Sun 12-4pm 01997 421031 £ Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage & Museum Contact museum for details 01381 600245 £ Invergordon Museum Check website for details www.invergordonmuseum.co.uk F/D Russian Arctic Convoy Exhibition Centre Contact museum for details 01445 731137 £ Tain & District Museum Contact museum for details 01862 894089 £ HPT Tarbat Discovery Centre Wed-Sat 10am-4pm but check details 01862 871351 £ HPT Ullapool Museum Contact museum for details 01854 612987 £ Eilean Donan Castle Sept: 9:30am-6pm; Oct: 10am-5pm 01599 555202 £ Museum of the Isles, Armadale, Skye 9:45 am-5:30pm. Last entry 4:30pm 01471 844305 £ SL Skye & Lochalsh Archive Centre Contact archive for details 01478 614078 F/D Brora Heritage Centre 10:30am–4:30pm 01408 622024 F/D Dunrobin Castle 10:30am-4:30pm. Last entry 4pm 01408 633177 £ HPT Ferrycroft Visitor Centre 10am-4pm 01549 402160 F/D Historylinks Museum 10:30am-4pm 01862 811275 £ SU Timespan, Helmsdale 10am-5pm 01431 821327 £
8 emerges from the pandemic by opening a new EXHIBITIONS As with all museum visits, it is advisable to exhibition and educational space in a re-themed check with the museum ahead of time for visit dining car. Tea, treats and a blether, with a closer look arrangements and any changes. Any exhibitions at photos from the railway construction period with submitted after the brochure goes to print will the museum’s curator. Entry £1. be listed on the HAF website. Glenfinnan Station Museum. Phone 01397 722295 Email [email protected] D1 Sun 1:30-4:30pm F/D CA www.glenfinnanstationmuseum.co.uk
Maps and Sea Charts D4 Thu-Sat 12-3pm; A fascinating last entry 2pm £ NA collection and display of local Retail Therapy: Shops and businesses maps, estate in the old market town of Nairn maps, house A collaborative plans, and sea and exhibition on air charts from the Nairn shops 1700s onwards. and businesses Castlehill Heritage Centre. Phone 01847 821120 through the years Email [email protected] with images www.castletownheritage.co.uk and stories of local shops and businesses. D2 Tue-Sat 10am-5pm F/D IN Adults £4, children free. New Nairn Museum. Phone 01667 456791 Email [email protected] Acquisitions: www.nairnmuseum.co.uk Treasure th th th th Trove D5 D5 25 , 26 , 28 , 29 , Inverness 30th Sept 12-4pm F/D RC Museum will show new acquisitions Coastal from Treasure Cromarty plus Trove including a sword pommel, gold posey ring and New unique bullet mould. Inverness Museum and Art Gallery. Recordings Phone 01349 781730 The Coastal Cromarty Email [email protected] exhibition features the www.highlifehighland.com/inverness-museum- ‘Sea Inside’ and-art-gallery/ community artwork sail. There are also new D3 3rd-5th Oct, 12-5pm £ LO recordings this year, including two late Building 18th century trials, a the Mallaig series of short monologues from the eccentric 17th century laird Sir Thomas Urquhart and the Victorian Railway tale of the unlucky evicted blacksmith. It may also be Celebrating 120 possible to see the exhibition outwith these hours by years since the contacting the museum. opening of the Cromarty Courthouse Museum. Mallaig Extension, 01381 600418 (opening hours only) the museum www.cromarty-courthouse.org.uk/
9 will also be shared through the exhibition alongside D6 Mon-Sat 10am-5pm £ RC vintage toy vehicles. Please contact for current entry charges. The New Gairloch Museum displays Highland Museum of Childhood. New displays Phone 01997 421031 opened in 2019 Email curator@highlandmuseumofchildhood. tell the region’s org.uk history. They www.highlandmuseumofchildhood.org.uk include the D10 Contact library for EXHIBITIONS Poolewe hoard opening times F/D SU of nine bronze objects recovered from a bog in Brora’s Poolewe in 1877. Adults £5, children 5-16 £2, family Industrial £12. Tramways Gairloch Museum. Phone 01455 712287 Photographic Email [email protected] exhibition on www.gairlochmuseum.org the salt and coal tramways of Brora D7 1:30-4:15pm F/D RC (1770s to 1970s). Venue: Brora Library and Cultural Centre. Book of Kells. Some Mysteries Brora Salt Pan Research Group & Brora Library. Revealed Email [email protected] or An exhibition [email protected] exploring how the 8th century D8 CA, IN, RC, SU illuminated Book of Gospels has Highland Pictish Trail inspired George The recently launched Highland Pictish Trail Bain and Thomas highlights Pictish sites including museum exhibitions. Keyes. For those See the website to download the trail and for more who can’t visit in person, the exhibition is also on the information. Museums on the trail are listed on the Groam House Museum website. Museums page in the HAF brochure and website. Groam House Museum. Phone 01381 620961 www.highlandpictishtrail.co.uk Email [email protected] www.groamhouse.org.uk
D9 Thu-Sat 11am-4pm; Sun 12-4pm £ RC
Around the World with 80 Dolls Don’t forget to check for A display of dolls from countries around the additions and changes to the world including a collection from retired HAF programme on www. female rally driver, Pat highlandarchaeologyfestival.org Smith, whose rallying stories and experiences
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Highland Archaeology Festival of Talks
Our online series of talks and discussions for 2021 focusses on new fieldwork and research and takes place over lunchtimes and evenings throughout the festival. Further details will be available on the HAF website, with links to book via Eventbrite.
Launch of Highland Regional ScARF Culduthel: An Iron Age craftworking Susan Kruse celebrates the publication of this centre in North-East Scotland important project. Candy Hatherley of Headland Wed 29th Sept 1-2pm Archaeology, celebrates the publication of this site.
th 1) ‘Excavation of a roundhouse settlement at Culduthel Fri 8 Oct 7:30-9pm Dalchork substation, Lairg’ 2) ‘Digging deep in Rosemarkie: pits, postholes and a 1) 'Rings in the North: Dendrochronological progress surprise!’ and potential in the Highlands' Coralie Mills 3) ‘Burning down the house: Medieval archaeology at 2) 'Trees, Climate and Declines' Rob Wilson Church Street Inverness’ Mon 11th Oct 7:30-9pm Recent work by AOC Archaeology Thu 30th Sept 1-2pm 1) ‘Bellfield Farm: A Late Bronze Age metalworking site and later prehistoric settlement’ Owain 1) 'The ecology and chronology of a medieval Highland Scholma-Mason Castle: SMCCCP investigations at Castle Roy' Mark 2) ‘Treasure Trove: an update and recent finds from Thacker Highland’ Emily Freeman 2) 'Old digs, new tricks: reconstructing Pictish lives Tue 12th Oct 1-2pm through the chemical and biomolecular analysis of skeletal remains Kate Britton & Orsolya Czére 1) ‘A Highland Renaissance’ Calum Maclean Fri 1st Oct 7:30-9pm 2) 'Inchberry: A Farm, a Steading, a Family – piecing the jigsaw together' Roland Spencer-Jones 1) Swartigill excavations Martin Carruthers 3) Groam Cottage Erik Lundberg 2) 'The importance of local collections at Freswick Links, Wed 13th Oct 7:30-9pm Caithness' Colleen Batey Mon 4th Oct 7:30-9pm Student Research in Progress Susan Dyke of UHI on environmental work at a Caithness 1) 'Ar Stòras Dualchas – Heritage, tourism, and building shieling. Other talks will be posted on the HAF website. the wealth of our Highland communities' Ben Thomas Thu 14th Oct 1-2pm 2) 'Exploring community-generated perspectives on landscape, heritage and the impact of tourism along From Migdale to Munich: exploring the ramifications and the NC500' Julian Grant significance of the Migdale hoard 3) Inverness Castle Stuart MacKellar Alison Sheridan explores this important hoard. Wed 6th Oct 1-2pm Fri 15th Oct 7:30-9pm
1) ‘Pioneering Spirit – still digging’ (Derek Alexander & Dan Rhodes) 2) ‘Whisky - friend or foe in Gaelic tradition?’ Hugh Cheape Thu 7th Oct 1-2pm
12 EVENTS Check out the HAF website www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org for events received after the brochure had gone to press, and for any last minute changes. Note that many events require booking. If in doubt about Covid-related conditions, contact the organiser.
th 1864, Station Saturday 25 September Road, Tain. Cost: £5. Bookings to: St Duthac E1 10am-1pm F/D BS Book and Arts Festival. Badenoch Phone 07966 Celebration 035859 Programme of talks to Email [email protected] celebrate the achievements of the Badenoch Great E4 10:30am-12pm Place Project. Part of the OR 2:30-4pm £ RC Badenoch Heritage Festival. Details and booking Circular Tour information will be posted of Tain on website, with bookings via Eventbrite. History Badenoch Great Place Project A town centre Email [email protected] walk covering 7 www.badenochstorylands.com/ churches, many listed buildings
E2 11am-12pm F/D LO and over 700 Highbridge years of history. Refreshments included. Level 1 walk. Meet at St Skirmish Duthus Hotel car park. Cost £5. Specify time when Join Paul booking to: MacDonald at St Duthac Book and Arts Festival. Highbridge, the Phone 07966 035859 scene of the Email [email protected] first skirmish of the 1745 E5a 10am-12pm £ RC Jacobite rising. Find out about the history of the conflict and recent Children’s archaeological discoveries made here. Level 1 walk. Archaeology Meet at Spean Bridge Commando Memorial car park. Pit Bookings to: Archaeology West Highland Museum. Phone 01397 702169 pit for children, Email [email protected] equipment www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk supplied. Limited to 3 children at E3 10-11am £ RC a time, 30 minute sessions. Venue: Tarbat Discovery Long Story Short at Tain Railway Centre. Free for children, accompanying adults £5. Bookings via website to: Station Tarbat Discovery Centre. Phone 01862 871351 Past stories of Tain Railway station and its restoration Email [email protected] to what it is today, including a tour. Meet at Platform www.tarbat-discovery.co.uk
13 E6a 11am-4pm F/D RC th Sunday 26 September Visit the Excavation of Roundhouse 10 E9a 12-2:30pm F/D 8+ IN During HAF there will be an EVENTS 8-day community excavation Guided Tour of of a roundhouse immediately the Inverness behind Gairloch Museum, led Filter Bunker by Dr Tom Gardner, HES. Come A guided tour of the visit the dig in progress to see what new secrets are bunker used in WW2, revealed. Level 2 walk. Meet at Gairloch Museum for the cold-war era directions. At the start and end of each day there will and as the Regional be a live stream on Facebook: check social media for Emergency Response Bunker. Lots of recent history to update times. appreciate! The bunker is located on Mackintosh Road Gairloch Museum. Phone 01455 712287 Email [email protected] on the Raigmore estate. Bookings via Eventbrite (link www.gairlochmuseum.org from HAF website): Behind the Radar. Phone 0845 4634633 [email protected] RC E7 2-5pm F/D www.behind-the-radar.co.uk Guided walk of Gairloch’s Archaeological Trail E10 2-4pm F/D LO Join Jeremy Cille Choirrill Fenton on a Churchyard Tour walk around the Join Kenny Mackintosh Archaeological on a guided walk around Trail behind the Cille Choirrill chapel Gairloch. Level and churchyard. Find 2 walk; good footwear essential. Meet at Gairloch out about the history Museum. A PDF of the route can be downloaded from of the graveyard from the museum website, or a more detailed map can be Columban times through bought from the shop. Bookings to: to the present. The visit will include a look inside the Gairloch Museum. Phone 01455 712287 Email [email protected] restored 15th century chapel. Meet at chapel car park www.gairlochmuseum.org near Roy Bridge. Bookings to: West Highland Museum. Phone 01397 702169 Email [email protected] E8 1-4pm F/D RC www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk Lithics Roadshow Stones can reveal all E11 10:30-11:30am F/D RC sorts of information. Join St Duthac lithics expert Dr Steph Pageant Piper to learn what Come watch a stones found in our area pageant exploring can tell us. We will have the life of St a box of stones with finds from previous excavations Duthac, in the Tain and Dr Piper will share what identifying features Collegiate Church they have and what we think they were used for. (MHG8689), completed in 1458 and dedicated to him. Bring along your own stones if you think they serve a Refreshments included. Bookings to: different purpose. St Duthac Book and Arts Festival. Venue: Gairloch Museum. Phone 07966 035859 Gairloch Museum. Phone 01455 712287 Email [email protected] Email [email protected] www.gairlochmuseum.org
14 EVENTS Sutherland E12 11:30am-12:30pm £ RC Clearances. This St Duthac and Pilgrimage walk will look at to Tain in the Middle Ages the crofts and Dr Tom Turpie’s talk will explore the the fascinating legends surrounding the identity of stories and folklore St Duthac, his close relationship with attached to them. the Stewart dynasty and the pilgrim In the event of experience at Tain in the later Middle bad weather, the walk will take place the following Ages. Refreshments included. Venue: Sunday. Level 1 walk, mainly on quiet single track Tain Collegiate Church. Cost £5. Bookings to: roads, although there is one stretch which could be St Duthac Book and Arts Festival. muddy in wet weather. Meet at Brora Heritage Centre. Phone 07966 035859 Bookings ideally by email or facebook message to: Email [email protected] Clyne Heritage. Phone 01408 621338 Email [email protected] www.clyneheritage.com E13 3-4pm £ RC
The Musick Fyne th Soloists in St Duthus Monday 27 September Collegiate Church E16 1-4pm F/D IN Renaissance choral music from Scotland and Europe Basic Finds as it would have been in the Conservation golden age of St Duthus Hands-on workshop on Collegiate Church. Refreshments included. Cost £10. basic conservation of finds Bookings to: aimed at museum staff and St Duthac Book and Arts Festival. volunteers, detectorists Phone 07966 035859 and people involved in Email [email protected] fieldwork and surveys. Led by Jeanette Pearson ACR, E14 11am-1pm OR 1:30-3:30pm F/D RC conservator at IMAG, this workshop will cover initial Experimental assessment of finds, handling, packing and support, Archaeology Day also which materials to use and some important do’s Blacksmith Derro Gilmour and don’ts. Venue: Inverness Museum and Art Gallery. (Highland Forge) will Bookings essential, ideally by email, to: ScARF & IMAG. Phone 077888 35466 demonstrate traditional Email [email protected] blacksmith craft, with displays Scarf.scot | www.highlifehighland.com/ about the importance of inverness-museum-and-art-gallery/ blacksmiths in the Highlands. There will also be an opportunity to browse the ARCH E17 2-4pm £ RC Experimental Archaeology loans boxes and learning materials. Venue: Black Isle Showground, Muir of Ord. Milling Around Milton Specify times when booking to: A guided walk around the historic ARCH. Phone 077888 35466 conservation village of Milton including Email [email protected] the Mercat Cross, the well, the mill and www.archhighland.org.uk local folklore. Refreshments included. Meet at Milton Primary School E15 10:30am-4pm F/D SU (NH 763 741). Cost: £5. Bookings to: St Duthac Book and Arts Festival. Guided walk around the crofting Phone 07966 035859 township of Doll, Brora Email [email protected] Doll is an old crofting township to the south of Brora, which was formalised into lots following the notorious
15 E6b 11am-4pm F/D RC to recent Treasure Trove finds at Nairn Museum, including a Bronze Age gold ring. Talk free with Visit the Excavation of entrance to the museum. Roundhouse 10 Nairn Museum. Phone 01667 456791 See details under 25th September Email [email protected]
EVENTS www.nairnmuseum.co.uk E18 7-8:30pm F/D E21a 10-11am F/D RC String: The first 50,000 years Online talk by Dingwalk 1: Dingwall’s Thousand Karen Hardy and Years (plus a Caroline Dear little bit) exploring the story Jonathan McColl of string through leads a gentle walk time, starting with through the history its crucial role in found along Castle human development throughout our past. The talk Street in Dingwall, will also look at basic methods of making and some from the Picts to of the plants that might have been used in the distant the Second World past, as well as more recently, in the Highlands. War. Level 1 walk. Booking via Eventbrite (link also from HAF website). Meet at Renato’s on the High Street near the traffic Caroline Dear and Karen Hardy lights. Email [email protected]; Dingwall Museum & Dingwall History Society & [email protected] ARCH. Phone 07754 625805 Any booking issues to [email protected] Email [email protected] www.dingwallmuseum.info or 077888 35466 th Tuesday 28 September E22a 2-3pm F/D RC E19 10am-12pm OR 2-4pm F/D NA Dingwalk 2: The Small Finds Road to the Castle Illustration Jonathan McColl leads a gentle walk through the Workshop history found along Castle Freelance illustrator Street in Dingwall, through Tom Small will lead this the history from the Vikings practical workshop on to the explorers of Africa. illustrating pottery and Level 1 walk. Meet at small finds objects. Venue: Castlebank House opposite Nairn Community Centre. Booking essential ideally by the Royal Hotel. email (noting which session you wish to book on) to: Dingwall Museum & Dingwall History Society & ScARF. Phone 077888 35466 ARCH. Phone 07754 625805 Email [email protected] Email [email protected] www.scarf.scot www.dingwallmuseum.info
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E23a 1:30-4pm F/D 10+ Guide Dogs Only AR EVENTS Following Ancient Footsteps: Kilmartin Glen Launch of Highland monuments Regional ScARF Join our Three years in preparation with a range of knowledgeable contriibutors, the overview of Highland volunteer walk heritage from earliest settlers in the Late guides who will tell you about the history of the glen Upper Palaeolothic to modern times will be monuments whilst enjoying a walk in the stunning virtually launched on the ScARF website scarf. landscape of Kilmartin Glen. You will visit key historic scot. Join project co-ordinator Susan Kruse for sites in the glen, including Temple Wood, North an overview of exciting insights, highlighting & South and Glebe Cairns and the Nether Largie potential for future research and learning. Standing Stones. Walk level 2. Meet at Kilmartin Bookings via Eventbrite (links also on HAF Village Green. Bookings essential to: website). Kilmartin Museum. Phone 01546 510278 Highland Council Historic Environment Email [email protected] Team & SCARF. Phone 077888 35466 www.kilmartin.org Email [email protected] E9b 6-8:30pm F/D 8+ IN www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org scarf.scot Guided tour of the Inverness Filter Bunker th See details under 26th September Thursday 30 September E26 10am-3pm F/D RC E6d 11am-4pm F/D RC Visit the Excavation of Exploring the Roundhouse 10 Aird Peninsula, See details under 25th September Shieldaig A walk to explore the E24 1:30-3:30pm F/D SL fishing settlements of the peninsula, with A Walk Around plenty to see and great St Columba’s views, led by Anne Isle and Tote MacInnes (MHG28606, MHG21193, MHG46055). Level 2 walk, approximately 6km. Meet outside the A short walk to look at the primary school, Shieldaig (NG 81668 54368). The walk early church remains on St is weather dependent, so booking essential to: Columba’s Isle, Skeabost NoSAS. Phone 07919 311584 (MHG5135), and then to Tote, Email [email protected] including visiting the Pictish www.nosas.co.uk symbol stone (MHG5141). Level 1 walk, but boots E6e 11am-4pm F/D RC recommended. Meet outside Skeabost village hall. Bookings (with address and next of kin details) to: Visit the Excavation of Isle of Skye U3A Archaeology and History Group. Roundhouse 10 Phone 01470 521882 See details under 25th September Email [email protected] 18 EVENTS E27 1-2pm F/D SU RC IN E29a 11am-12pm £ RC Recent AOC excavations at Tarbat Old Dalchork, Rosemarkie and Parish Church Inverness Graveyard Tour Three short talks by AOC staff on: 1) A tour of Tarbat Excavation of a roundhouse settlement at Old Parish Dalchork substation, Lairg; 2) Digging deep Church cemetery, in Rosemarkie: pits, postholes and a surprise!; Portmahomack, 3) Burning down the house: Medieval looking at family graves and funerary decorations. archaeology at Church Street Inverness. Level 1 walk. Cost £5 if the museum is open. Bookings Bookings via Eventbrite (links also on HAF ideally via website to: website). Tarbat Discovery Centre. Phone 01862 871351 Highland Council Historic Environment Email [email protected] Team. Phone 077888 35466 www.tarbat-discovery.co.uk Email [email protected] E6f 11am-4pm F/D RC www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org Visit the Excavation of Roundhouse 10 See details under 25th September
E30 7:30-9pm F/D The Power of Scientific Techniques when Investigating Highland Buildings and Bodies Talks by Mark Thacker (U. of Stirling) on ‘The ecology or 077888 35466 st and chronology of a
Friday 1 October medieval Highland Castle: SMCCCP investigations at E28 11am-12pm F/D LO Castle Roy’ and Kate Britton Kilmallie and Orsolya Czere (U. of Graveyard Tour Aberdeen) on ‘Old digs, new tricks: reconstructing Pictish Join Ronald Cameron on lives through the chemical a fascinating guided walk and biomolecular analysis of skeletal remains’. at Kilmallie churchyard. Bookings via Eventbrite (links also on HAF There has been a church in website). this vicinity since the 13th Highland Council Historic Environment century so we will look at Team. Phone 077888 35466 what is known of these Email buildings, at some [email protected] significant events that www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org occurred here or were connected to this place and some of the remarkable people whose final journey ended here. Level 1 walk. Meet at the obelisk monument at the entrance. Bookings to: West Highland Museum. Phone 01397 702169 Email [email protected] www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk
19 or 077888 35466 nd E9c 2-4:30pm F/D 8+ IN Saturday 2 October Guided tour of the Inverness Filter E31a 10am-4pm F/D (assisted) BS Bunker Castle Roy See details under 26th September EVENTS NOTE: This tour will be run in Gaelic Open Day The castle E34 11am-1pm F/D LO (MHG4571) will be open to show Metal detecting in Lochaber locals and visitors Come along to the newly finished the West Highland Castle Roy visitor Museum, Fort attraction. Guided William and find out tours of the castle will occur throughout the day. more about metal Castle Roy Trust. Phone 07764 944742 detecting with the Email [email protected] West Highland www.castleroy.org.uk Metal Detectors Group. This will be E32 10am-3pm F/D CA an informal event looking at recent metal detecting Dunnet Head Wartime Remains finds in Lochaber. Bookings to: West Highland Museum & West Highland Metal A guided tour around Detectors Group. Phone 01397 702169 two secret WW2 radar Email [email protected] stations led by Andrew www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk Guttridge. Morning level 1 walk, afternoon walk E35a 12-4pm F/D RC level 2; come to one or both. Meet at Wick or Kirkmichael – the Stories Thurso railway stations Behind the Stones at 10am, and then drive to Dunnet Head car park. Tours of the Bookings by email or post to: medieval kirkyard Caithness Field Club and kirk (MHG8777), Email [email protected] including medieval Postal booking to Tony Bradford, Rehovot, Reay, ornamental cross KW14 7RR slabs in restored nave, at noon and E33a 2-4pm F/D IN 3pm. Uncovering Guided Walk to Comar Wood Dun hitherto unrecorded historic grave slab at 1pm. See Walk to the dun also our Facebook page. The kirk is at Balblair, Black (MHG55867), an Iron Age Isle IV7 8LQ and open during daylight hours. defensive site, where an The Kirkmichael Trust. Phone 07849 647390 archaeologist will point Email [email protected] out features and tell you www.kirkmichael.info www.facebook.com/kirkmichaeltrust/ about the excavation. You can also enjoy a E5b 10am-12pm £ RC fantastic view! Level 1 walk. Meet at Marydale Church, Cannich. Children’s Archaeology Pit Strathglass Heritage Association. See details under 25th September Phone 01456 415457 Email [email protected] www.strathglass-heritage.co.uk
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Lost Inverlael: A’ SU Lorg Baile Bhlàir The Ord near – Discovery Walk Lairg: From 3500 EVENTS Join us for a walk to BC to 100 AD in 4 discover more about our miles community archaeology This prehistory walk is project exploring the lost based on two easy Forestry Commission trails taking townships of Inverlael and Balblair. Level 2 walk. Meet us by Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age features. at Inverlael Walker’s car park. Bookings to: Interpretive commentary, including wildlife. Level 1 Ullapool Museum. Phone 01854 612987 walk. Meet at Ferrycroft Visitor Centre, Lairg where [email protected] www.ullapoolmuseum.co.uk there are also displays and food. Bookings preferably by email to: Ramblers Association (Sinclair Dunnett). F/D RC E37 7-9pm Phone 07710 678395 Lost Inverlael: A’ Email [email protected]
Lorg Baile Bhlàir – E40 2-5:30pm F/D SU Evening Talk Join us to explore more about Clachtoll Broch: a our community archaeology celebration of an project and the exciting icon in the north discoveries being made about An online celebration these lost townships. Venue: bringing together Clachan Lochbroom Heritage Trust Church. all the findings from Bookings to: the Clachtoll Broch Ullapool Museum. Phone 01854 612987 conservation and [email protected] excavation project which www.ullapoolmuseum.co.uk has been taking place in recent years. (MHG13002). Bookings to http://bit. E6g 11am-4pm F/D RC ly/ClachtollCelebration Visit the Excavation of Historic Assynt and AOC Archaeology Group. Phone 01349 865225 or 01314 403593 Roundhouse 10 Email [email protected] or Graeme. See details under 25th September [email protected] www.clachtollbroch.com E38 2:30-4:30pm F/D SL A Walk round Sunday 3rd October Camuscross and Isle Ornsay E31b 10am-4pm F/D (assisted) BS A guided walk round Isle Castle Roy Open Day Ornsay and the crofting See details under 2nd October township of Camuscross exploring their history. E41a 1-5pm F/D 10+ IN Level 1 walk. Meet at Hotel Eilean Iarmain, Isle Ornsay. Family/Group Fun in a WW2 RADAR Note that parking is limited. Bookings to: Filter Room Comunn Eachdraidh Shlèite. An event for families or small groups of 6-8 people. Email [email protected] After basic training, try your hand to detect and track www.sleatlocalhistorysociety.org.uk approaching enemy bombers using 1940s RADAR
22 EVENTS tracking techniques. collection of prehistoric finds and Tea and biscuits Pictish stones. The event is only to available between the museum, and anyone wishing raids. Further details to visit the castle and grounds will and bookings need to purchase entry tickets. Meet are available on at main entrance to the Castle. Part Eventbrite (link also via HAF website). Ideally book as of Highland Pictish Trail. Bookings a group, but limited numbers of individuals will be essential specifying timed slot to: joined to form groups. ARCH. Phone 077888 35466 Behind the Radar. Phone 0845 4634633 Email [email protected] [email protected] www.archhighland.org.uk www.behind-the-radar.co.uk E45 7:30-9pm F/D CA E42 10am-4pm F/D RC Focus on Caithness: Swartigill Conan cross slab on the and Freswick Pictish Trail Two online talks on Special opening at Dingwall Caithness: Martin Museum to see the recently Carruthers (UHI) discovered Pictish Conan cross slab will talk about (MHG60000). Space is limited, so recent excavations we will be admitting small groups at Swartigill and at a time. Part of the new Highland Colleen Batey will Pictish Trail. discuss finds from Dingwall Museum. the important Phone 07754 625805 multi-period site Email at Freswick Links [email protected] soon to be at North www.dingwallmuseum.info Coast Visitor Centre (former Caithness or 077888 35466 th Horizons). Bookings
Monday 4 October via Eventbrite (links also on HAF website). Highland Council Historic Environment E43 10am-3pm F/D IN Team. Phone 077888 35466 The Wilds of Breakachy Email [email protected] www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org Starting at Breakachy, west of Beauly, Roland Spencer-Jones will lead a walk to explore some of the rich archaeology to be found on this Tuesday 5th October estate. Level 3 walk. Meeting place to be arranged on booking to: E46 10:30am-12:30pm F/D LO NoSAS. Phone 07787 507972 Email Beyond the Cattlegrid at [email protected] Blarmachfoldach www.nosas.co.uk Chris Robinson will guide you around E44 11am-12pm OR 12:30-1:30pm the small crofting F/D 8+ SU settlement of A Guided Visit to Dunrobin Castle Blarmachfoldach, focussing on people Museum and places. Level 1 walk. Join Susan Kruse of ARCH for a guided visit to the Meet at picnic spot at Upper Achintore. This walk wonderful museum in the grounds of Dunrobin requires your own transport to move from site to site. Castle. This hidden gem includes an important Booking essential due to limited onsite parking to:
23 West Highland Museum. Phone 01397 702169 Email [email protected] Wednesday 6th October www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk
E23b 1:30-4pm F/D RC E47 12-1pm F/D 10+ Guide Dogs Only AR EVENTS A walk around Loch Following Ancient Footsteps: Kinellan A leisurely walk around Loch Kilmartin Glen monuments Kinellan, Strathpeffer learning See details under 29th September about the crannog excavation (MHG6285) and other E49 10:30am-12:30pm F/D LO prehistoric finds from the area, The Siege of Fort William & Beyond as well as the history of the A guided walk around development of Strathpeffer. Cow Hill and finishing at Level 1 walk on good paths. the Craigs burial ground Meet at car park at NH 4710 in Fort William. Chris 5759 (limited parking). Bookings to: Robinson will be your ARCH & NoSAS. Phone 077888 354366 guide and will focus on Email [email protected] www.archhighland.org.uk | www.nosas.co.uk aspects of the Siege of Fort William in 1746. Level 2 walk. Meet behind Lochaber Leisure Centre, E22b 10-11am F/D RC Fort William. Bookings to: Dingwalk 2: The Road to the Castle West Highland Museum. Phone 01397 702169 See details under 28th September Email [email protected] www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk E21b 2-3pm F/D RC E50a 2-4pm F/D SU Dingwalk 1: Dingwall’s Thousand Clachtoll Broch Guided Tour Years (plus a little bit) A short walk to Clachtoll See details under 28th September Broch (MHG13002) and a guided tour of the monument E48 7:30-9pm F/D RC including the latest results Exploring the of the recent excavation and consolidation project - Current NoSAS Jim Bone Archaeology’s Rescue Project Aerial Photo of the Year 2021. Level 1 walk. Collection Check final arrangements and A hands-on workshop meeting place with organiser exploring the wonderful or on facebook. collection of aerial photographs from Jim Bone, Historic Assynt. 01571 833283 now available online. We’ll explore how to find the Email [email protected] www.clachtollbroch.com photographs for areas you are interested in, how to www.facebook.com > historicassynt link with the HER/Canmore, and generally have fun exploring this rich resource. Bring a computer or tablet if you have one, but we will also project onto a large screen. Venue: Strathpeffer Community Centre. Don’t forget to check for Bookings to: additions and changes to the NoSAS. Phone 07787 507972 Email [email protected] HAF programme on www. www.nosas.co.uk highlandarchaeologyfestival.org
24 EVENTS E51 1-2pm F/D E53 1-2pm F/D Heritage and Tourism in the Whisky Heritage Highlands Two online talks The heritage of explore recent the Highlands has work on this ever- huge potential for popular topic. Derek tourism. Hear three Alexander and talks which explore Dan Rhodes (NTS) this issue: ‘Ar Stòras discuss findings Dualchas – Heritage, on NTS properties tourism, and (‘Pioneering Spirit – still digging’), while Hugh building the wealth Cheape (UHI) focusses on ‘Whisky - friend or of our Highland foe in Gaelic tradition’. Bookings via Eventbrite communities’ (links also on HAF website). by Ben Thomas Highland Council Historic Environment Team. Phone 077888 35466 (HES), ‘Exploring Email highlandarchaeologyfestival@ community- gmail.com generated perspectives on landscape, heritage www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org and the impact of tourism along the NC500’ by Julian Grant (PhD student) and a talk on Inverness Castle developments by Stuart th MacKellar (LDN Architects). Bookings via Friday 8 October Eventbrite (links also on HAF website). Highland Council Historic Environment E54 2-4pm F/D Church only IN Team. Phone 077888 35466 Email Visit to Marydale Church and [email protected] Davoch of Clachan, www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org Strathglass Guided visit to beautiful or 077888 35466 19th century Marydale th Thursday 7 October Church, Cannich (MG15707), then on to nearby Clachan E52 10:30am-4pm F/D RC Comair (MHG2756), ruined medieval chapel and Braemore Junction graveyard in the centre of a (has more pre-Clearances settlement area. Level 1 walk. Meet at Marydale Church, Cannich. archaeology than Strathglass Heritage Association with Marydale you’d think!) Catholic Church. Phone 01456 415366 The Braemore Junction to Email [email protected] Loch Droma area contains www.strathglass-heritage.co.uk a surprising number of unrecorded archaeological structures. Join Cathy Dagg to record as many of these E55 10am-2pm F/D NA as we can for inclusion on the Highland HER. Come along just for the walk and the craic, or learn some Benchmark basic recording techniques. Working in small teams Recording Day we’ll discover shielings, quarries, old roads, enclosures The physical remains of the and bridges. Level 2 walk. Meet at Braemore Junction Ordnance Survey are all car park. Book by phone or email at least 3 days around us. Beginning with before the event to: background 10-11am at NoSAS. Phone 07717 863255 Nairn Community Centre, Email [email protected] we will then split into www.nosas.co.uk small groups to record OS
25 benchmarks in Nairn. Back at the Community Centre E58 7:30-9pm F/D IN 1-2pm, we will input data and pictures into the bench- marks.org.uk database. Donations please to cover Culduthel: An Iron Age room hire. Bookings ideally via ARCH website Events craftworking centre in page but otherwise by phone or email: North-East Scotland EVENTS ARCH. Phone 077888 35466 Email [email protected] The Iron Age craft www.archhighland.org.uk centre site known as Culduthel was identified in 2005 E56 2-3pm £ NA on the southern Retail Therapy: Shops and businesses outskirts of in the old market town of Nairn Inverness. The results A talk relating to our of this excavation exhibition on Nairn have finally been published by the Society High Street, on past of Antiquaries of Scotland and reveal a vivid and present shops and picture of an Iron Age community engaged in businesses of Nairn highly developed and sustained production through the years, of iron, bronze and glass objects between with slides of shops/ the late First Millennium BC and early First businesses past and Millennium AD. The main author of the book, present. Talk free with entrance to the museum. Dr Candy Hatherley, will take us on a visual tour Bookings to: of the site and discuss what the excavation Nairn Museum. Phone 01667 456791 of Culduthel means for Iron Age studies in Email [email protected] Scotland and beyond. Bookings via Eventbrite www.nairnmuseum.co.uk (links also on HAF website). Highland Council Historic Environment E29b 11am-12pm £ RC Team. Phone 077888 35466 Email Tarbat Old Parish Church [email protected] Graveyard Tour www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org See details under 1st October
E57 2-5pm F/D RC Saturday 9th October Rev. Thomas Ross, Hero or Villain? The history and E31c 10am-4pm F/D (assisted) BS the archaeology Castle Roy Open Day The Lochbroom Yair See details under 2nd October Riots, the Inverlael and Balblair Clearances, E41b 1-5pm F/D 10+ IN the Disruption. The Family/Group Fun in a WW2 RADAR Rev. Thomas Ross played a role in all of Filter Room these events and more. Hero or villain? Some stories See details under 3rd October and some archaeology around Clachan Church (MHG7829) led by archaeologist Cathy Dagg. Level 2. E59 10am-5pm F/D RC walk. Meet at Clachan Church, Lochbroom. Bookings Edderton Old at least 3 days in advance to: Friends of Clachan Church. Church and Phone 07717 863255 (Cathy Dagg) Pictish Stones Email [email protected] Visit the beautiful www.clht.org.uk 18th century church
26 EVENTS (MHG8648), walk around the graveyard and see the remains of a marble Pictish stones. Part of Highland Pictish Trail. quarry outside of Edderton Old Church Preservation Trust. Phone Broadford (MHG6394; 01862 821325 MHG6578). Level 2 walk. Email [email protected] Meet at Kilchrist Church www.edderton.com/what-to-see/old-church/ on the B8083 (NG 6170 2069). Bookings ideally E60 1-4pm F/D RC via ARCH website Events Exploring Ardross page but otherwise by phone or email: A walk to explore ARCH. Phone 077888 35466 Email [email protected] prehistoric to modern www.archhighland.org.uk sites identified during the ARCH community E62 10:30am-12:30pm F/D 8-12 SU course. Level 2 walk. Meet at Ardross Mock Archaeological Community Hall. Dig Bookings ideally via ARCH website Events page but An opportunity for youngsters otherwise by phone or email: to find out what it’s like to ARCH. Phone 077888 35466 dig up the past! The day will Email [email protected] www.archhighland.org.uk start with a short talk about archaeology. Participants will be shown how to use a E5c 10am-12pm £ RC trowel to dig for objects under Children’s Archaeology Pit the ground. All finds will be See details under 25th September entered in the Finds Register. Refreshments provided. Venue: HistoryLinks Museum, Dornoch. Bookings to: E35b 12-4pm F/D RC Historylinks Museum. Phone 01862 811275 Email [email protected] Kirkmichael – the Stories www.historylinks.org.uk Behind the Stones See details under 2nd October E63 7:30-9pm F/D The Huge Potential of or 077888 35466 th Sunday 10 October Dendrochronology in the Highlands E31d 10am-4pm F/D (assisted) BS Two talks highlighting past Castle Roy Open Day work and future nd See details under 2 October potential for the Highlands. E9d 2-4:30pm F/D 8+ IN Coralie Mills Guided tour of the Inverness Filter (Dendrochronicle) will discuss dating Bunker and provenancing Highland timbers. Rob th See details under 26 September Wilson (St Andrews) will look at Trees, Climate and Declines. Bookings via Eventbrite (links or 077888 35466 th also on HAF website). Monday 11 October Highland Council Historic Environment Team. Phone 077888 35466 E61 11am-1pm F/D SL Email highlandarchaeologyfestival@ Broadford Marble Quarry gmail.com www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org Join Susan Kruse and John MacLeod to explore the
27 or 077888 35466 th E64 10:30am-4pm F/D (in part) SL Tuesday 12 October Viking Activity E33b 2-4pm F/D IN Day Become a Viking for a
EVENTS Guided Walk to Comar Wood Dun See details under 2nd October day! Join us for a range of hands-on craft activities including crafts, games E74 11am-12:30pm RC and cooking at this family Children’s Crafts, Dancing Peg Dollies event. Venue: The Plock, & Roaring Racing Cars Kyle of Lochalsh. Drop in Special children’s activity to at any time and stay as accompany exhibition. Bookings long as you wish. Note: no and further details from: toilet or catering facilities. Highland Museum of Kyle & Lochalsh Community Trust. Childhood. Phone 01599 534505 Phone 01997 421031 Email [email protected] Email www.lochalsh.uk [email protected] www.highlandmuseumofchildhood.org.uk E75 7:30-9pm F/D Towards an Archaeology Trip Advisor E65 1-2pm F/D Online discussion hosted by ARCH and NoSAS Excavations at Bellfield, North exploring the idea of an ‘Archaeology Trip Advisor’ – Kessock / Recent Treasure Trove personal recommendations of local Highland heritage to visit should you be in the area. See HAF website Finds in the Highlands entry for further details and a booking link. A double bill of ARCH and NoSAS. Phone 077888 35466 online talks. As Email [email protected] the excavations www.archhighland.org.uk www.nosas.co.uk at Bellfield are published, Owain Scholma-Mason (Headland Archaeology) will report on ‘Bellfield Farm: A Late Bronze Age metalworking site and later prehistoric settlement’. Emily Freeman (Treasure Trove Scotland) will speak on ‘Treasure Trove: an update and recent finds from Highland’. Bookings via Eventbrite (links also on HAF th website). Wednesday 13 October Highland Council Historic Environment Team. E23c 1:30-4pm Phone 077888 35466 F/D 10+ Guide Dogs Only AR Email [email protected] Following Ancient Footsteps: www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org Kilmartin Glen monuments See details under 29th September
28 EVENTS of Achnabreac. Level 2 walk. Contact organisers E50b 2-4pm F/D SU about wheelchair accessibility. Meet at Achnabreac Clachtoll Broch Guided Tour Forest Park car park (PA31 8RE). Bookings essential to: See details under 6th October Kilmartin Museum. Phone 07858 817767 Email [email protected] E66 7:30-9pm F/D IN www.kilmartin.org
Focus on Architectural Studies in E68 1-2pm F/D Inverness and Student Research In Progress Kirkhill Students will profile Three online work in progress, talks looking at including Susan recent work in the Dyke (UHI) on Inverness and the environmental Kirkhill area. Calum work at a Caithness Maclean will talk shieling and David about ‘A Highland McCaughie (U. of Renaissance, Stirling) on analysis of weathering sandstones exploring the on historic buildings including Clachtoll Broch. transformation in Other talks will be posted on the HAF website. the architecture Bookings via Eventbrite (links also on HAF of Inverness in website). the 1600s’. Erik Highland Council Historic Environment Lundberg will focus Team. Phone 077888 35466 on a forgotten gem: Email [email protected] Groam Cottage www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org in Kirkhill. Roland Spencer-Jones looks at ‘Inchberry: A Farm, a Steading, a Family – E69 7:30-9pm £ RC piecing the jigsaw together’. Bookings via Eventbrite (links also on HAF website). An evening with archaeologists Highland Council Historic Environment Join us for presentations and questions with Team. Phone 077888 35466 archaeologists including Dr Tom Gardner (HES) and Email highlandarchaeologyfestival@ Dr Steph Piper (U. of York) to discover what has been gmail.com found in the region and what secrets remain hidden. www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org The event will be streamed online. Booking via website please. Gairloch Museum. Phone 01455 712287 Thursday 14th October Email [email protected] www.GairlochMuseum.org/events E67 2-3:30pm F/D 8+ Guide Dogs Only AR E70 5:30-6:30pm F/D IN Following Ancient Footsteps: A Brewing Storm: Alewives Achnabreak Rock Art in 16th Century Inverness Nestled within the Join Professor Elizabeth Ewan for Achnabreac Forest park, this online talk about brewsters, discover one of the finest bargains, and boisterous behaviour: prehistoric rock art sites highlighting women’s respectable in Scotland and largest and disreputable contributions to the of its kind in Europe. Join life of early modern Inverness. Bookings from website. Centre for History, University of the Highlands our education officers and Islands who will be able to tell Email [email protected] you about the incredible prehistoric Rock Art Carvings www.bit.ly/ElizabethEwanTalk
29 Friday 15th October E73 7:30-9pm F/D SU From Migdale to Munich: E71 10:30am-12pm F/D LO
EVENTS exploring the ramifications A Visit to Craig’s Burial Ground, and significance of the Migdale Fort William hoard Join Chris Robinson on Discovered in 1900 while granite boulders this insightful guided were being blasted for use in buildings at tour that will involve a Bonar Bridge, the magnificent Migdale Hoard short visit to the Craigs of bronze and cannel coal or shale artefacts Burial Ground Fort is one of the most significant Early Bronze William which served Age discoveries from Highland Region. This local townspeople and online talk by Dr Alison Sheridan explores the the Garrison of Fort William. The trip will include tales significance of the find and what it tells us of the Siege of Fort William, a Gaelic Scholar, a sad about long-distance movement of ideas, and drowning of a little girl and a man who killed 21 men possibly of people, around 4000 years ago. and died quietly in his bed in 1728. Level 1 Walk. Meet Bookings via Eventbrite (links also on HAF at burial ground. Bookings to: website). West Highland Museum. Phone 01397 702169 Highland Council Historic Environment Email [email protected] Team. Phone 077888 35466 www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk Email [email protected] E72 10am-12pm F/D SU www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org Dalnamain through time A walk through the deserted settlement of Dalnamain looking at the remains of the pre- clearance settlement. © NMS Level 2 walk, muddy in places. Meet at Dalnamain, Strath Carnaig Post Festival Event (NH 72168 98435). Bookings ideally by email to: Historylinks Museum & NoSAS. Phone 07833 920532 Saturday and Sunday 16th/17th October £ SU Email [email protected] Scottish Salt Symposium www.historylinks.org.uk | www.nosas.co.uk A two-day Symposium in Brora, the most northerly coal- fired sea salt manufacturing centre in the UK, will bring salt historians, archaeologists, and enthusiasts together to celebrate this vital but little-known Scottish industry. There will be talks on Saturday, and fieldtrips on Sunday. See the website for further details including booking information. Venue to be confirmed. Cost £20, includes light lunch and refreshments on Saturday. SCAPE Trust & Clyne Heritage www.scapetrust.org/salt-symposium
30 Highland Archaeology Festival 2021 FEEDBACK FORM
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31 ARGYLL
E23 29th Sept, 6th, 13th Oct Following Ancient Footsteps: Kilmartin Glen monuments P18 E67 14th Oct Following Ancient Footsteps: Achnabreak Rock Art P29
BADENOCH & STRATHSPEY
E1 25th Sept Badenoch Celebration (online) P13 E30 1st Oct The ecology and chronology of a medieval Highland Castle: SMCCCP investigations at Castle Roy (online) P19 E31 2nd, 3rd, 9th Oct Castle Roy Open Day P20 BY REGION INDEX BY
CAITHNESS
E32 2nd Oct Dunnet Head Wartime Remains P20 E45 4th Oct Focus on Caithness: Swartigill and Freswick (online) P23 Special exhibitions at Castlehill Heritage Centre
INVERNESS-SHIRE
E9 26th, 29th Sept, 2nd, 10th Oct Guided tour of the Inverness Filter Bunker P14 E16 27th Sept Basic Finds Conservation P15 E27 30th Sept Recent AOC excavations at Dalchork, Rosemarkie and Inverness (online) P19 E33 2nd, 12th Oct Guided Walk to Comar Wood Dun P20 E41 3rd, 9th Oct Family/Group Fun in a WW2 RADAR Filter Room P22 E43 4th Oct The Wilds of Breakachy P23 E54 8th Oct Visit to Marydale Church and Davoch of Clachan, Strathglass P25 E58 8th Oct Culduthel: An Iron Age craftworking centre in North-East Scotland (online) P26 E66 13th Oct Focus on Architectural Studies in Inverness and Kirkhill (online) P29 E70 14th Oct A Brewing Storm: Alewives in 16th Century Inverness (online) P29 Special exhibitions at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
LOCHABER
E2 25th Sept Highbridge Skirmish P13 E10 26th Sept Cille Choirrill Churchyard Tour P14 E28 1st Oct Kilmallie Graveyard Tour P19 E34 2nd Oct Metal detecting in Lochaber P20 E46 5th Oct Beyond the Cattlegrid at Blarmacfoldach P23 E49 6th Oct The Siege of Fort William & Beyond P24 E71 15th Oct A Visit to Craig’s Burial Ground, Fort William P30 Special exhibitions at Glenfinnan Station Museum
NAIRN
E19 28th Sept Small Finds Illustration Workshop P16 E20 28th Sept Nairn Museum Treasure Trove Finds P16 E55 8th Oct Benchmark Recording Day P25 E56 8th Oct Retail Therapy: Shops and businesses in the old market town of Nairn P26 Special exhibition at Nairn Museum
32 ROSS AND CROMARTY INDEX
E3 25th Sept Long Story Short at Tain Railway Station P13 E4 25th Sept Circular Tour of Tain History P13
E5 25th Sept, 2nd, 9th Oct Children’s Archaeology Pit P13 BY REGION E6 25th,27th-30th Sept, Visit the Excavation of Roundhouse 10 P14 1st, 2nd Oct E7 25th Sept Guided walk of Gairloch’s Archaeological Trail P14 E8 25th Sept Lithics Roadshow P14 E11 26th Sept St Duthac Pageant P14 E12 26th Sept St Duthac and Pilgrimage to Tain in the Middle Ages P15 E13 26th Sept The Musick Fyne Soloists in St Duthus Collegiate Church P15 E14 26th Sept Experimental Archaeology Day P15 E17 27th Sept Milling Around Milton P15 E21 28th Sept, 5th Oct Dingwalk 1: Dingwall’s Thousand Years (plus a little bit) P16 E22 28th Sept, 5th Oct Dingwalk 2: The Road to the Castle P16 E26 30th Sept Exploring the Aird Peninsula, Shieldaig P18 E27 30th Sept Recent AOC excavations at Dalchork, Rosemarkie and Inverness (online) P19 E29 1st, 8th Oct Tarbat Old Parish Church Graveyard Tour P19 E35 2nd, 9th Oct Kirkmichael – The Stories Behind the Stones P20 E36 2nd Oct Lost Inverlael: A’ Lorg Baile Bhlair – Discovery Walk P22 E37 2nd Oct Lost Inverlael: A’ Lorg Baile Bhlair – Evening Talk P22 E42 3rd Oct Conan cross slab on the Pictish Trail P23 E47 5th Oct A walk around Loch Kinellan P24 E48 5th Oct Exploring the NoSAS Jim Bone Aerial Photo Collection P24 E52 7th Oct Braemore Junction (has more archaeology than you’d think!) P25 E57 8th Oct Rev. Thomas Ross, hero or villain? The history and the archaeology P26 E59 9th Oct Edderton Old Church and Pictish Stones P26 E60 9th Oct Exploring Ardross P27 E65 12th Oct Excavations at Bellfield, North Kessock (online) P28 E74 12th Oct Children’s Crafts, Dancing Peg Dollies & Roaring Racing Cars P28 E69 14th Oct An evening with archaeologists P29 Special exhibitions at Cromarty Courthouse Museum, Gairloch Museum and Groam House Museum
SKYE AND LOCHALSH
E24 29th Sept A Walk Around St Columba’s Isle and Tote P18 E38 2nd Oct A Walk round Camuscross and Isle Ornsay P22 E61 11th Oct Broadford Marble Quarry P27 E64 12th Oct Viking Activity Day P28
SUTHERLAND
E15 26th Sept Guided walk around the crofting township of Doll, Brora P15 E27 30th Sept Recent AOC excavations at Dalchork, Rosemarkie and Inverness (online) P19 E39 2nd Oct The Ord near Lairg: From 3500BC to 100AD in 4 miles P22 E40 2nd Oct Clachtoll Broch: a celebration of an icon in the north (online) P22 E44 4th Oct A Guided Visit to Dunrobin Castle Museum P23 E50 6th, 13th Oct Clachtoll Broch Guided Tour P24 E62 11th Oct Mock Archaeological Dig P27
33 E72 15th Oct Dalnamain through time P30 E73 15th Oct From Migdale to Munich: exploring the ramifications and significance of the Migdale hoard (online) P30 Special exhibition at Brora Library
ONLINE
E1 25th Sept Badenoch Celebration P13 E18 27th Sept String: The first 50,000 years P16 E25 29th Sept Launch of Highland Regional ScARF P18 E27 30th Sept Recent AOC excavations at Dalchork, Rosemarkie and Inverness P19 st BY REGION INDEX BY E30 1 Oct The Power of Scientific Techniques when Investigating Highland Buildings and Bodies P19 E40 2nd Oct Clachtoll Broch: a celebration of an icon in the north P22 E45 4th Oct Focus on Caithness: Swartigill and Freswick P23 E51 6th Oct Heritage and Tourism in the Highlands P25 E53 7th Oct Whisky Heritage P25 E58 8th Oct Culduthel: An Iron Age craftworking centre in North-East Scotland P26 E63 11th Oct The Huge Potential of Dendrochronology in the Highlands P27 E65 12th Oct Excavations at Bellfield, North Kessock/ Recent Treasure Trove Finds in the Highlands P28 E66 13th Oct Focus on Architectural Studies in Inverness and Kirkhill P29 E68 14th Oct Student Research In Progress P29 E70 14th Oct A Brewing Storm: Alewives in 16th Century Inverness P29 E73 15th Oct From Migdale to Munich: exploring the ramifications and significance of the Migdale hoard P30
34 “We believe in archaeology’s ability to change lives and strengthen communities”
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PHOTO CREDITS Front cover: main Image Iain Sarjeant | small images left to right - Castle Roy Archive, Nairn Museum and Martin Briscoe. Back cover: main image Iain Sarjeant | small images left to right - Anne MacInnes, ARCH, NoSAS (Jim Bone Collection) and Cathy Dagg.