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Highland Archaeology Festival Fèis Arc-eòlais na Gàidhealtachd

28th Sept – 18th Oct 2019

Celebrating Archaeology, History and Heritage A’Comharrachadh Arc-eòlas, Eachdraidh is Dualchas

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Welcome to Highland Archaeology Festival 2019 Fàilte gu Fèis Arc-eòlais na Gàidhealtachd 2019 The popularity of our annual Highland Archaeology Festival goes from strength to strength and I am pleased to introduce the programme for this year’s festival which showcases all of Highland’s historic environment from brochs to burials, barrages to battlefields. 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. 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 letting everyone have access to the results of this work, either through our award-winning Historic Environment Record (HER) website or through our programme of events for the festival. This year provides a great illustration of the incredible archaeological sites that survive across Highland and the wealth of information that can be found there. Our two keynote talks illustrate this perfectly, highlighting the significance of Highland research to the wider, national picture. These lectures, held at the council chamber in Inverness, will cover the exceptional High Pasture Cave complex on Skye and the concentration of brochs within Caithness, showing how these sites have become a focus for community-centred research and identity. The 2019 programme includes a lot of brand new and unique events. There is something for everyone here; for those just looking for a new walk, to those wanting to live like a hunter- gatherer. For anyone desperate to get stuck in further, our Adopt-an-HER-Record initiative allows you to contribute directly to the shared body of knowledge; our conference includes a session on the merits of designation for sites, buildings and battlefields; and we are also offering a professional workshop on pottery identification. 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 Allan Henderson, Chair of the Environment, Development and Infrastructure Committee

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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 Walks: Event primarily for children 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 appropriate for those used to walking in the Suitable for wheelchair access outdoors ARCH Archaeology for Communities in the Level 3: a long or strenuous walk demanding a Highlands moderate degree of fitness and health NoSAS North of Scotland Archaeology Society Where appropriate we have added reference MHG MHG Reference numbers to sites in numbers (format MHG1234) to find out the Highland Historic Environment more about sites in the Highland Historic Record (her.highland.gov.uk). Environment Record, the most complete record 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 has 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 Hidden Black Isle Trail Self Guided Trails Trail to some of the hidden gems, mainly Corrieyairack Pass heritage, on the Black Isle. Available on the web Available from Highland Council website at http://www.black-isle.info/hidden.asp www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/ download/184/sites_and_heritage_trails Guide to Kirkmichael in the Black Isle A guide to the church and graveyard. Walk the Yarrows Archaeology Trail Available on the web at Available from Highland Council website www.kirkmichael.info/LeafletsPage.html www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/ download/184/sites_and_heritage_trails Explore the ‘Chanonry’ – a walking tour around early Fortrose Castlehill Flagstone Trail Walking tour of Fortrose produced by the Available from Highland Council website Kirkmichael Trust. Available on the Kirkmichael www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/ Trust website download/184/sites_and_heritage_trails www.kirkmichael.info/LeafletsPage.html

Caithness Broch Trail An Historic Walk around Portree Available from Caithness Broch Project website Linked to commemorative plaques in the www.thebrochproject.co.uk/additional-info village. Available from various places in Portree including the Tourist Information Office. Explore Archaeology in Rural Inverness Available from Highland Council website Dornoch www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/ Featuring the key points in Dornoch’s history. download/184/sites_and_heritage_trails Leaflets available from Historylinks Museum.

A Walk Around Strathpeffer Telford in the Kyle of Sutherland Walk leaflet created by ARCH project exploring Trail of Telford remains in the Kyle of Sutherland the spa town. Available from Old Pump created by an ARCH project. Available from Room in Strathpeffer, Highland Museum of www.archhighland.org.uk/library.asp in the Childhood, or Telford in the Highlands folder. www.archhighland.org.uk/library.asp Strathnaver Trail and Strathnaver Trail Map Invergordon World War I Trail Available from Highland Council website Walk leaflet showing World War I remains in www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/ Invergordon created by ARCH project. download/184/sites_and_heritage_trails Available from Invergordon Museum and www.archhighland.org.uk/library.asp The Ord Lairg Archaeology Trail Available from Highland Council website Heritage along the Kyle Line www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/ A leaflet to accompany the Dingwall to Kyle of download/184/sites_and_heritage_trails Lochalsh railway journey, created by an ARCH project. Available from Dingwall Station or SAE Historic Map of Lairg from ARCH, The Goods Shed, The Old Station, Village map of historic buildings and locations, Strathpeffer IV14 9DH. published by Lairg Local History Society. Available from Ferrycroft Visitor Centre and A Walk around Munlochy other local outlets. Walk leaflet to explore Munlochy, created by ARCH project. Available from Brora Industrial Heritage Trail www.archhighland.org.uk/library.asp Leaflet available from Brora Heritage Centre and Cunningham’s of Brora. Evanton Airfield Past and Present Trail of WWII remains at Evanton, created by Pictish Trail ARCH project. Available form Cornerstone Café Available from Highland Council website and www.archhighland.org.uk/library.asp www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/ download/184/sites_and_heritage_trails

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ARCHAEOLOGIST CERAMIC SPECIALIST ARCHAEOLOGISTARCHAEOLOGIST CERAMIC SPECIALIST CERAMIC SPECIALIST 07950 356081 Museums and Archives Open during HAF Phone ahead to confirm hours if travelling a distance. Note that this list is only museums which have confirmed details to us. Others may be open as well.

Kilmartin Museum 10am-5:30pm 01546 510278 £ AR Clan MacPherson Museum Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 12-5pm 01540 673332 F/D Grantown Museum Mon-Sat 10am-5pm 01479 872478 £

BA Highland Folk Museum 11am-4:30pm 01349 781650 F/D Dunbeath Heritage Centre Mon 10am-4pm; Wed 1-6pm; Fri 10am-4pm 01593 731233 £ Nucleus: the Caithness and Nuclear Archives Mon-Fri 9am-5pm 01955 602444 F/D CA Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre 9am-6pm 01463 796090 £ Fort George Sept: 9:30am-5:30pm; Oct onwards: 10am-4pm 01667 460232 £

IN Highlanders Museum 10am-4pm 0131 310 8701 £ (to Fort George) Highland Aviation Museum Sat-Sun 10am-4:30pm 01667 461100 £ Highland Family History Room Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 10am-5pm; Wed 10am-7:30pm 01349 781130 F/D Highland Archive Centre Mon, Tue, Thu, 10am-5pm; Wed 10am-7:30pm 01349 781130 F/D Inverness Museum & Art Gallery Tue-Sat 10am-5pm 01349 781730 F/D Urquhart Castle Sept: 9:30am-6pm; Oct: 9:30am-5pm 01456 450551 £ Wardlaw Mausoleum 28th & 29th Sept, 5th & 6th Oct 10am-4pm. Or on request. 01463 831742 Suggested donation £3 Arisaig Land, Sea and Islands Centre Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 11am-5pm 01687 450771 F/D Clan Cameron Museum Until 6 Oct: 11am-4:30pm. After 6 Oct. open by request 07900 217975 £ Glencoe Folk Museum Mon-Sat 10am–4:30pm 01855 811664 £ LO Lochaber Archive Centre Tue, Thu, Fri 10am-1pm, 2-5pm 01397 707050 F/D West Highland Museum Sept: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Oct: Mon-Sat 10am-4pm 01397 702169 F/D Brodie Castle 10am - 5pm 01309 641371 £ Burghead Visitor Centre Until 5th Oct: 12-4pm 01343 835518 F/D Elgin Museum Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat 11am-4pm 01343 543675 F/D

MO Falconer Museum Tue-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 1-5pm 01309 673701 F/D Findhorn Heritage Centre and Icehouse 28th & 29th Sept 2-5pm 01309 691823 F/D Cawdor Castle To 6 Oct: 10am-5:30pm 01667 404401 £ Nairn Museum Mon-Fri 10am-4:30pm; Sat 10am-1pm but closed 5th Oct 01667 456791 £ NA Alness Heritage Centre Mon-Fri 10am-4pm 01349 883005 F/D Applecross Heritage Centre Mon-Sat 12-4pm 01520 744255 Cromarty Courthouse Museum 12-4pm 01381 600418 F/D RC Gairloch Museum Phone or check website 01445 712287 £ Groam House Museum Mon-Fri 11am-4:30pm; Sat & Sun 2-4:30pm 01463 811883 F/D Highland Museum of Childhood Tue-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 12:30-4pm 01997 421031 £ Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage & Museum September 1-5pm 01381 600245 £ Invergordon Museum Phone for opening times 01349 854824 F/D Russian Arctic Convoy Exhibition Centre Mon-Sat 10am-4pm 01445 731137 £ Tain Through Time Mon-Fri 10am-5pm 01862 894089 £ Tarbat Discovery Centre Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 2-5pm (last entry 4:15pm) 01862 871351 £ Ullapool Museum Mon-Sat 11am-5pm 01854 612987 £ Eilean Donan Castle 10am-6pm 01599 555202 £ Museum of the Isles, Armadale, Skye 9:30 am-5:30pm 01471 844305 £ SL Skye & Lochalsh Archive Centre Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 10am-1pm, 2-5pm 01478 614078 F/D Brora Heritage Centre 10:30am–4:30pm 01408 622024 F/D Dunrobin Castle Sept: 10am-5pm, Oct: 10:30am-4:30pm 01408 633177 £ Ferrycroft Visitor Centre 10am-4pm 01549 402160 F/D SU Historylinks Museum 10am-4pm 01862 811275 £ Strathnaver Museum Mon-Sat 10am-5pm 01641 521418 £ Timespan, Helmsdale 10am-5pm 01431 821327 £

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D1 Mon-Sat 10am-5pm £ BS D4 10am-4pm £ (IN PART) IN Our Canadian Cousins War Came Home A captivating The exhibition focusses on disabled veterans insight into the returning after World War I. It explores social care intrepid and provision and assistance provided, and the parallels pioneering between society’s attitudes then and now, over one Highlanders hundred years later. The museum is free, but there is who shaped a charge to get into Fort George. Contact us about

EXHIBITIONS the making of mobility issues. Canada. The Highlanders’ Museum. Stories of Phone 0131 3108701 emigration, exploration and exploitation. Adults £4, Email [email protected] children under 16 free. www.thehighlandersmuseum.com Grantown Museum. Phone 01479 872478 Email [email protected] D16 3rd Oct 4-7pm F/D IN www.grantownmuseum.co.uk The Northern Barrage in the D2 Mon & Fri 10am-4pm; Wed 1-6pm £ CA Highlands A one-day The Late Iron Age Settlement at Wag exhibition featuring displays of Forse created by several Artefacts and photographs from the 1940’s local organisations excavations will be on show. Adults £3, children and researching the local residents free. activities of the Dunbeath Heritage Museum. U.S. Navy in the Phone 01593 731233 Email [email protected] Highlands during www.dunbeath-heritage.org.uk WWI. Note that a talk will follow at 7pm (see E95 in the Events programme). Venue: Spectrum Centre, Inverness near the bus station. D3 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm F/D CA Inverness Local History Forum & ARCH.

Phone 077888 35466 The Email [email protected] Campaign or [email protected] www.archhighland.org.uk for Women’s D5 Until 5th Oct Suffrage in 12-4pm F/D MO Caithness A display Recent Excavations at Burghead showing the results of a WEA/ARCH project Photographs of the excavations carried out by investigating women’s suffrage in Caithness. Venue: Gordon Noble in April this year. The key to visit the Nucleus (Wick Archives) near Wick airport. nearby enigmatic Burghead well is also available from Nucleus. Phone 01955 606432 the Centre. Limited parking near the Centre for less Email mobile visitors. [email protected] Burghead Visitor Centre. Phone 01343 835518 www.highlifehighland.com/nucleus-nuclear- www.burghead.com caithness-archives/

10 EXHIBITIONS D6 Sat & Sun 28th & D9 Mon, Wed, Fri 9am-6pm; Tue & Thu 29th Sept 2-5pm F/D MO 9am-8pm; Sat 10am-5pm F/D RC

Findhorn in Old Time and Tide Photographs Our restored of Easter mid-19th century underground Ross A running slide icehouse contains show of old an exhibition photographs from relating to the once Dingwall Museum’s important local salmon netting industry. The Heritage collection, displayed at Dingwall Community Library. Centre tells the story of Findhorn folk from the stone Dingwall Museum & Dingwall Community age to the present day. Library (High Life Highland). Findhorn Heritage Centre and Icehouse. Phone 01349 869869 Phone 01309 691823 Email [email protected] www.findhorn-heritage.co.uk D10 Sat 5th Oct 10am- 4:30pm F/D RC

D7 Mon-Fri 10am-4:30pm; Sat Killearnan Memories Revisited (except 5th Oct) 10am-1pm £ NA Another chance to explore the farms and castles of the north shore of the Beauly Firth in this one-day Nairn Pottery exhibition at North Kessock Village Hall. Refreshments, A display of items produced at Nairn Pottery by bookstall and children’s section. Gordon and Muriel McIntyre and their pupils. Adults North Kessock and District Local History Society. £4, concession £3, family £8, 5-16 £1, under 5 free. Phone 07757 821373 Nairn Museum. Phone 01667 456791 Email [email protected] [email protected] www.northkessockhistory.com www.nairnmuseum.co.uk D11 Sat 28th Sept 10am-4pm; Sun 6th Oct 12-5pm F/D RC D8 4th-18th Oct, Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 3-5pm £ (partial) RC Wartime Medieval Burials at Portmahomack: Dalmore The Man with 6 Heads An exhibition on FAS Heritage (York) and collaborators continue wartime activity the Tarbat Discovery Programme in 2019 with at Dalmore a burial project that targets medieval burials at Distillery between Portmahomack. One was of a very tall man buried Invergordon and with four skulls surrounding his head. This exhibit Alness. In WWI it presents the results to date, including a facial was taken over by reconstruction. Adults £4, concessions and children the U.S. Navy to assemble and deploy mines between 13-17 £3, children under 12 free. Orkney and Norway. In WWII it was one of a number Tarbat Discovery Centre. Phone 01862 871351 of local sites used by the RAF. Email [email protected] Invergordon Museum. Phone 01349 853509 tarbat-discovery.co.uk Email [email protected] www.invergordonmuseum.co.uk

11 HUNTER ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL TRUST This Trust, established by the late Doreen Hunter, supports research not only into the archaeology but also into the history of Scotland from the end of the Roman period until the end of the Middle Ages, as well as assisting publication Romanesque buckle, on suitable themes. Linlithgow © SUAT Ltd. GrantsGrants normally normally fall fall withinwithin the range of betweenbetween £500 and £1,500 butbut inin exceptionallyexceptionally wellwell merited merited casescases sums of upup toto £4,000£4,000 may be available. FurtherFurther information information from & & applications applications by Monday, by WednesdayMonday, 6th February15 15th January January 2017 2019 to:- 2020 to:- Karen McLachlan,JamesJames Brogan, Brogan, RusselRussel Russel ++ Aitken,Aitken,+ Aitken LLP, LLP,Solicitors, Unit King’s King’s 5 The Court, Court, Courtyard High Street, Falkirk FK1 1PQ | Telephone:- 01324 622888 CallanderHigh Street, FalkirkBusiness FK1 1PQ Park, | Telephone:- Falkirk, 01324 FK1 622888 1XR or E-mail:- [email protected]@huntertrust.co.uk Note:Note: If Ifyou you are Telephoneare submitting submitting an an application application - keep keep01324 your your eyeeye on 622888 our website asas wewe or shall shall be be including including anan application application formform toto bebe used,used, together with guidance notes. notes. Emailwww.hunterarchaeologicaltrust.org.uk - [email protected] EXHIBITIONS D12 Mon-Fri 10am-4pm F/D RC D14 10am-4pm F/D SU

A Military 150th Anniversary of Lairg Station Landscape Lairg Local History Society’s exhibition retained for a An exhibition second year includes old photographs, documents of photographs and an N gauge model railway diorama of Invershin taken over the Station, based on the steam era of the Far North Line. past 15 years by Ferrycroft Museum. Phone 01549 402160 www.highlifehighland.com/ferrycroft-visitor- Allan Bovill of 20th centre/ century military remains in, around, and underground in the Cromarty D15 Mon 1-5pm, 6-8pm; Tues 10am-12:30pm, Firth area. Venue: Alness Heritage Centre. 2-5pm; Thu 2-5pm, 6-8pm; Allan Bovill & Alness Heritage Centre. Fri 10am-12:30pm, 1:30-4:30pm Phone 01349 883005 F/D SU www.alness.com/heritage-centre

D13 Mon-Fri 11am-4:30pm; Highland Archaeology: Sat & Sun 2-4:30pm F/D RC Re-using our Past

Shortlisted photographs from the 2018 Highland Found in the Archaeology Festival photographic competition. Garden Contact library to confirm dates. A special exhibition of Brora Library (High Life Highland). the few fragments of Phone 01408 621128 carved Pictish stones Email [email protected] www.highlifehighland.com/libraries/brora- that have been found library-and-cultural-centre in the gardens of Rosemarkie since the 1980s. Groam House Museum. Phone 01381 620961 Email [email protected] www.groamhouse.org.uk

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Finds from Ashaig Holy Well An exhibition showing selected finds uncovered during an excavation of the Holy Well at Ashaig near Broadford on Skye. Skye & Lochalsh Archive Centre, Portree. Phone 01478 614078 Email skyeandlochalsh.archives@ highlifehighland.com Don’t forget to check for additions and changes to the HAF programme on www. highlandarchaeologyfestival.org

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E2 7:30-9pm SU EVENTS Throughout the Festival History on your Doorstep: Lochinver First in a series of talks on the history of individual E93 Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; villages in Assynt. Venue: Lochinver Village Hall Sat 11am-4pm F/D MO Community Room. For other talks contact Historic Kids Archaeology Trail at Assynt. Historic Assynt. Phone 01571 844501 Elgin Museum Email [email protected] Over HAF follow the trail around the Museum to find Facebook @historicassynt out about how archaeologists work and discover more about our archaeological collections. th Elgin Museum. Phone 01343 543675 Saturday 28 September Email [email protected] www.elginmuseum.org.uk E3 10am-3pm F/D BS Slochd To Sluggan Bridge Military th Friday 27 September Road Walk Approximately 6.5 LAUNCH LECTURE mile (10.5 Km) walk along a section E1 7:30pm of Wade’s Military Suggested donation £5 IN road, visiting various sites along the Out of the Dark: Looking Beyond route (MHG32435, the High Pasture Cave Complex, MHG4465). Level Skye 3 walk (no steep inclines). Meet at car park next to Slochd Mhor Lodge (NH 847 238). From the first NoSAS. Phone 01997 421124 steps taken into Email [email protected] the darkness www.NoSAS.co.uk of High Pasture Cave on Skye E4 10am-4pm £ IN (MHG32043), it was clear that Agricultural Working Vintage Rally this complex and Display site would Explore farming over the last 100 years, with heritage challenge current thinking on cave use and displays, stalls and demonstrations. Thirteenth year function in prehistory, and wider understanding of this event at Daviot, just off the A9. Adults £10, of Iron Age cultural practice and beliefs. This children under 16 years free. presentation by Steven Birch will place the Strathnairn Farmers Association. High Pasture Cave Complex within a wider Phone 01463 790325 contextual setting, drawing on evidence from Email [email protected] www.daviotvintage.co.uk excavated caves in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe. Venue: Highland Council Chamber, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness. Parking permit available at desk. No need to book.

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14 EVENTS E5 10am-4pm £ 8+ IN E6a 10am-4pm Suggested donation £3 IN Print Workshop at Fort George (for families) Wardlaw Mausoleum Open Day Work with Scottish artist Robert Alexander Menzies Burial place of the Lovat Frasers (Lord Lovat). Built in this creative printmaking workshop. Event for 1634 and remodelled in 1722 by Simon the Fox, families with children 8+ years old. Learn about the beheaded in London in 1747 for supporting Bonnie rich history of Fort George, and then respond visually Prince Charlie. Visit the crypt with 6 lead coffins. through Lino and Cyanotype printing. No experience (MHG39898). In addition to the timetabled dates, the needed, all materials provided. Meet at the visitor mausoleum is also open on request Mon-Fri 30th centre. £10 per person, 10% discount for Historic Sept to 4th Oct and 7th to 11th Oct. Scotland members. Bookings online please: Wardlaw Mausoleum Trust. Historic Environment Scotland. Phone 01463 831742 Phone 0131 652 8156 Email [email protected] Email [email protected] wardlawmausoleum.com Historicenvironment.scot/events

Near to Ben Nevis, Fort William explore or relax and soak up the scenery in lovely surroundings. Private beach and free fishing. Luxury chalets and holiday caravans for hire. Touring caravans, motorhomes and tents all very welcome. Pets are also welcome. Tel: 01397 772376 • www.linnhe-lochside-holidays.co.uk

15 E7 10am-12:30pm £ LO E11 10am-12pm F/D RC Guided Walk: The Siege of Achtercairn Archaeology Trail Fort William A guided 2 mile walk and Beyond led by Jeremy Fenton, EVENTS looking at round- A walk up Cow Hill houses, burial and and finishing at the ceremonial sites, field Craigs burial ground walls, and geology. in Fort William, led by Level 2 walk. Meet at Dr. Chris Robinson. The GALE Centre, Gairloch. Bookings online please: theme of the walk will focus on aspects of the Siege National Trust for Scotland (Inverewe Garden). of Fort William. Level 2 walk. Meet behind Lochaber Phone 01445 712954 Leisure Centre, Fort William. £2, free to West Highland Email [email protected] Museum members. Bookings to: www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/inverewe/events West Highland Museum. Phone 01397 702169 Email [email protected] E12 10:30am-4pm F/D SL www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk Skye Ecomuseum Archaeology Day: E8 7:30-9pm £ MO Deep Time Walk and Environmental Excavations at Burghead Archaeology Workshop Talk by Gordon Noble of University of Aberdeen In the morning, a walk on excavations this year at Burghead, part of the with environmental Northern Picts project. Venue: Church of Scotland Hall, archaeologist Dr Scott Burghead (next to the school). £3. Timpany and Dan Burghead Visitor Centre. Phone 01343 835518 Lee (UHI Archaeology www.burghead.com Institute) discussing the archaeology and landscapes of Skye and western E9a 10am-4pm F/D RC Scotland, looking at sites from the Mesolithic to the present. In the afternoon, a workshop exploring Ross and Cromarty the types of environmental evidence studied with Heritage opportunities to have a go at wood identifications, Drop in to find information waterlogged plant remains and dendrochronology, about local Ross and Cromarty together with pollen analysis. Level 2 walk. Meet at heritage, using the Ross and Columba 1400 Centre, Staffin. Cromarty Heritage website, UHI Archaeology Institute & Staffin Community or find out more about the Trust. Phone 01470 562464 Society. Society members on Email [email protected] hand to help. Venue: Dingwall Community Library. Ross and Cromarty Heritage Society. E13 1:30-3:30pm F/D 8+ SU Phone 01349 861555 Email [email protected] Helmsdale’s Sea Fishing Heritage: www.rossandcromartyheritage.org Recording and Photographing Survey A guided walk by Jacquie E10 11am-1pm OR 2-4pm F/D RC Aiken around the historic Explore and Use Wartime Cameras fishing village of Helms- dale to identify, record and Join us at Invergordon Museum to explore the photograph sites related collection of original wartime large format cameras, to its past fishing industry, shoot your image and see your negative develop with followed by evaluation of SR Film Photography. Limited spaces. Specify session a new digital model of the village and harbour. Level 1 when booking to: Invergordon Museum. Phone 01349 853509 walk. Meet at Timespan Museum. Bookings to: Email [email protected] Timespan Museum. Phone 01431 821327 www.invergordonmuseum.co.uk Email [email protected] www.timespan.org.uk

16 EVENTS Sunday 29th September E17a 11-11:45am OR 2-2:45pm F/D IN Explore the Highlanders’ Museum’s E14 10am-3pm F/D CA World War One Handling Collection Join our Education Officer for a workshop to explore Landscape of Forse our collection of objects Guided walk through a dating from the First multi-period landscape, World War. No bookings, including Forse estate, pre- and first come, first clearance dwellings, Bronze served (maximum 12 Age hut circles, burnt children). Note: the mounts and the impressive event is free, but there late Iron Age Wag of Forse (MHG2404). Level 2 walk. is an entry fee for Fort Meet at “Forse of Nature”, Latheron. No dogs. George. Dunbeath Preservation Trust & Dunbeath Highlanders Museum, Fort George. Heritage Museum. Phone 07786 932169 Phone 0131 3108701 Email [email protected] Email [email protected] www.thehighlandersmuseum.com E15 2-4pm F/D IN Guided Walk to Comar Wood Dun E6b 10am-4pm Suggested donation £3 IN Visit Comar Wood Dun, an Iron Age defensive settlement site set on Wardlaw Mausoleum Open Day a hillside near Cannich See details under 28th September with extensive views of Strathglass (MHG 55867). E18 10am-12:30pm £ LO Light refreshments available after the walk Guided Walk to Blarmachfoldach in Marydale Church Hall, Cannich. Level 1 walk. Meet near Fort William at Marydale Church, Cannich (NH 3412 3173) before Dr. Chris Robinson will be your guide on this walk to driving up to forestry track to Dun. the small crofting settlement of Blarmachfoldach, Strathglass Heritage Association. focussing on people and places. Level 1 walk. Meet at Phone 01456 415457 the picnic spot at Upper Achintore. £2, free for West Email [email protected] Highland Museum members. Booking essential to: www.strathglass-heritage.co.uk West Highland Museum. Phone 01397 702169 Email [email protected] E16 10am-4pm £ IN www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk Print Workshop at Fort George E19 2-3:30pm F/D MO (for adults) Work with Scottish Tour of Kinloss artist Robert Alexander Abbey Menzies in this creative Tour of Kinloss Abbey printmaking workshop. and the Abbot’s House Learn about the rich his- by one of the trustees tory of Fort George, and of Kinloss Abbey Trust then respond visually with a short history of through Lino and Cyanotype printing. No experience this ancient site. Level needed, all materials provided. Meet at the visitor cen- 1 walk. tre. £10 per person, 10% discount for Historic Scotland Kinloss Abbey Trust. Phone 01309 691824 members. Bookings online please: Email [email protected] Historic Environment Scotland. www.kinlossabbey.org Phone 0131 652 8156 Email [email protected] Historicenvironment.scot/events

17 Adopt an HER Record

Is there a Highland site or object that is special to you?

The Highland Historic Environment Record (HER) is the Council’s online database of all known heritage in the Highlands. We’re looking for help to keep it updated and for photographs of many of the sites and finds included. Can you help?

Adopting an HER record can be as simple as sending us a good photograph (your copyright or out of copyright please). Or you could include descriptions of its present state, forward other out of copyright material which should be included or links to them, add a bibliography or send corrections if needed. Your work will be acknowledged in the on-line record.

For further information visit: www.her.highland.gov.uk or email [email protected] CONFERENCE Adopt an HER Record

Highland Archaeology Festival Conference Photo © Cathy Dagg 12th & 13th October 2019 Is there a Highland site or object that is special to you? Highland Council Chamber, Inverness RECENT The Highland Historic Environment Record (HER) is the Council’s ARCHAEOLOGICAL time student rate of £20 for both days. The cost online database of all known heritage in the Highlands. We’re includes admission and tea/coffee. Payment can looking for help to keep it updated and for photographs of many of DISCOVERIES AND be sent by cheque or can be paid online via www. the sites and finds included. Can you help? highlandarchaeologyfestival.org. Note that online RESEARCH bookings will incur a surcharge of £1 per ticket to cover costs. Adopting an HER record can be as simple as sending us a Our annual conference highlights new To book, please complete and return the booking good photograph (your copyright or out of copyright please). discoveries and research relating to Highland form, along with a cheque (made payable to Or you could include descriptions of its present state, forward archaeology, and allows you to meet the Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands) archaeologists, local groups, and individuals or payment via the website, to arrive no later than other out of copyright material which should be included or responsible for this work. Tuesday 8th October 2019. An electronic version of links to them, add a bibliography or send corrections if The conference features speakers from a variety the form which can be returned by email is available needed. Your work will be acknowledged in the on-line record. of national, academic, commercial and local from www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org in the organisations. As usual, topics range from earliest Document Library section in the 2019 folder. settlers to 20th century remains, looking at a Lunches, whether your own or purchased, may be For further information visit: range of sites, finds and buildings. This year’s panel eaten in the foyer. Cafes and shops are within 5 discussion will focus on designations for sites, minutes walking distance. www.her.highland.gov.uk buildings and battlefields– are they helpful or not? or email [email protected] There will also be a range of poster sessions (list Photo © NoSAS available on the day). Please see the conference programme overleaf for further details. The conference venue is a short walk from Inverness city centre, with good audio-visual facilities, comfortable seating, easy access and plenty of parking. When registering at the conference desk on the day, please pick up a parking permit if needed. Conference places must be booked in advance. Attending the conference costs £20 per day, or £30 for both days. This year we are also offering a full Photo © Michael Sharpe

19 CONFERENCE 2019 Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Research Highland Council Chamber, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness Saturday 12th October Chair: Andy Heald (AOC Archaeology) CONFERENCE 9:00 – 9:30am Registration / tea and coffee 9:30 – 9:40am Welcome from Kirsty Cameron, Highland Council Historic Environment Team 9:40 – 10:00am An overview from the Highland Council Historic Environment Team – Ian Scrivener-Lindley (Highland Council) 10:00 – 10:25am Raining’s Stairs excavations: a glimpse into medieval Inverness – Lachlan McKeggie (Highland Archaeology Services) 10:25 – 10:50am From the Cradle to the Grave: childhood diet and health in medieval Scotland – Shirley Curtis-Summers (University of Bradford) 10:50 – 11:05am Discussion and questions 11:05 – 11:35am Tea and coffee / browse the display stands 11:35am – 12:00pm Revealing the lost church of the White Friars: excavations in Mill Road, Kingussie – Steven Birch (West Coast Archaeological Services) 12:00 – 12:25pm Norse thing sites in Scotland: connecting with new ancestors – Alexandra Sanmark (UHI) 12:25 – 12:50pm A new Pictish cross slab in Easter Ross with strong connections to southern Pictland – John Borland (Historic Environment Scotland) 12:50 – 1:05pm Discussion and questions 1:05 – 2:15pm Lunch / browse the display stands / poster sessions 2:15 – 2:40pm The excavation and conservation of Clachtoll broch - Graeme Cavers (AOC Archaeology) 2:40 – 3:05pm Global access to cultural heritage: 3D modelling of monuments and artefacts – Hugo Anderson-Whymark (National Museums Scotland) 3:05 – 3:15pm Discussion and questions 3:15 – 3:35pm Break 3:35 – 4:35pm Designation: Friend or Foe? Panel and discussion on designations Understanding Cultural Significance and Making the Case: Scheduled Monuments in the 21st century – John Raven (HES) Designation: delusions, denials or delights? – Norman Brockie (Highland Council) To Gain a Little Patch of Ground: designation and the protection of battlefields – Iain Banks (University of Glasgow) 4:35 – 5:00pm Panel discussion and questions

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20 CONFERENCE 2019 CONFERENCE Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Research Highland Council Chamber, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness Sunday 13th October Michael Stratigos (University of Glasgow)

09:30 – 10:00am Registration / tea and coffee/ browse the display stands / poster session 10:00 – 10:05am Welcome 10:05 – 10:30am Excavations at Kilmore, Drumnadrochit: Bronze Age burials and Neolithic settlement – Sam Williamson (AOC Archaeology) 10:30 – 10:55am Bronze Age Food Vessels from the Scottish Highlands: a regional perspective – Marta Innes (University of Glasgow) 10:55 – 11:10am Discussion and questions 11:10 – 11:40am Tea and coffee / browse the display stands 11:40am – 12:05pm Pits and Patches: a slice of prehistory at Wester Inshes – Aisling Fitzpatrick (Headland Archaeology) 12:05 – 12:30pm Skeletons under the Floorboards: a tale of skulduggery in Applecross – Catherine Dagg (Independent archaeologist) 12:30 – 12:55pm Badenoch Great Place Project: making places where heritage brings real change – Graham Fraser and Karen Derrick (Badenoch Great Place Project) 12:55 – 1:10pm Discussion and questions 1:10 – 2:30pm Lunch / browse the display stands / poster sessions 2:30 – 2:55pm The JS Bone Collection: 65 years of aerial photography – Roland Spencer-Jones (NoSAS) 2:55 – 3:20pm From Farmsteads to Timber Poles: an archaeology of RSPB Highland – Jill Harden (RSPB) 3:20 – 3:45pm Experimental Archaeology in the Highlands – Susan Kruse (ARCH) 3:45 – 4:00pm Discussion and questions

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21 Highland Archaeology Festival Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Research 12th-13th October 2019, Highland Council Chamber, Inverness

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22 EVENTS E20 10:30am-4pm F/D SU Tuesday 1st October Guided walk to Strath Brora Townships of Greeanan and Fearach E24 10-11:30am We will see the buildings of two townships, one F/D but charge for ferry RC cleared and one inhabited into the 20th century, and hear about some of the fascinating historical Isle Martin Heritage: references we have regarding their inhabitants What’s New? (MHG19358, MHG11528, MHG32074). We will also see For frequent visitors to the the remnants of the earlier Bronze/Iron Age landscape island and first timers, a walk of hut circles and clearance cairns (MHG11016, through the history of this MHG11017). And the scenery overlooking Loch fascinating island including Brora and Carrol Rock findings from this year’s is stunning too! Level 2 heritage project. Level 1 walk. walk, with a steep start Meet at Ardmair jetty. Contact and walking over rough Cathy Dagg for details on ground. Meet at Brora parking, ferry times and fares. Bookings to: Heritage Centre. This Cathy Dagg. 07717863255 walk is weather dependent, so phone if in doubt. Email [email protected] Clyne Heritage. Phone 01408 621338 Email [email protected] E23 12-2pm Clyneheritage.com F/D but charge for ferry 8+ RC Foraging Walk, Isle Martin, Monday 30th September near Ullapool Join Ranger Jenny Grant for a potter around Isle Martin, looking at food from the land and coast. Level F/D IN E21 1:30-3:30pm 3 walk (c. 2.5km/1.5mi). Meeting place will be on the HERO Day: Contributing to Our island, and will be given out on booking. Ferries must Heritage Knowledge be booked separately by contacting the ferry – see www.islemartin.org. Booking for the walk essential Bring photographs and information to this drop (by 4pm on 30/9/2019) to: in session, and we will help you add them to the High Life Highland Countryside Rangers. Highland Historic Environment Record, Highland Phone 01854 613526 Council’s database of all known heritage. Scanner and Email [email protected] computers available, and opportunities to explore this www.highlifehighland.com/rangers/ fantastic resource. Venue: Culloden Library. ARCH. Phone 077888 35466 E25 10am-12:30pm F/D SU Email [email protected] www.archhighland.org.uk Dun Creich Walk E22 7:30-9:15pm £ IN A walk up to Dun Metal Detecting in the Highlands Creich to see the Iron Dennis Ross, local metal detectorist and amateur Age dun and remains historian, will talk about metal detecting in Strathglass of the medieval and other areas of the High- castle (MHG10024). lands, and will display some Level 2 walk. Meet at of his exciting finds. Venue: car park of Creich cemetery. Bring a drink and snack. Marydale Church Hall, Can- Bookings to: nich. £2, Strathglass Heritage Historylinks Museum & NoSAS. Phone 07833 920532 Association members £1. Email [email protected] Strathglass Heritage Association. www.historylinks.org.uk www.nosas.co.uk Phone 01456 415457 Email [email protected] www.strathglass-heritage.co.uk

23 E26a 10:30am-12pm F/D SU Thursday 3rd October Drop in to Golspie Heritage E29 2-3pm F/D BS Centre EVENTS On the Trail of the Wolf of Badenoch Drop in to see some of Truth can be stranger than the archives, photos and fiction! In this illustrated talk objects in the Golspie John Robertson considers if Heritage Centre. See some of the legends of the website for details on how to find us. Wolf of Badenoch are true. Golspie Heritage Centre Venue: Clan Macpherson www.spanglefish.com/golspieheritagesociety Museum, Newtonmore. Bookings to: Clan Macpherson Museum. nd Phone 01540 673332 Wednesday 2 October Email [email protected] www.clan-macpherson.org E27a 1:30-4pm F/D AR E30 10am-4pm F/D IN Guided Walk of Kilmartin The Northern Barrage in the Glen Monuments Highlands: One Day Discover why the ancient landscape of Kilmartin Conference A one-day conference on Glen is so unique. Join the U.S. Navy activity in the our knowledgeable Highlands in World War I, as- volunteer guides on sembling and then deploy- a glen walk of the key ing mines on the Northern Barrage between Orkney historic sites in the glen, and Norway. Various community groups which have including Temple Wood, North, South and Glebe researched the topic will present their findings of this cairns and the Nether Largie Standing Stones. Level 2 little known presence. Full programme and further walk. Guide dogs only. Bookings to: Kilmartin Museum. Phone 01546 510278 details available from organisers. Venue: Spectrum Email [email protected] Centre, Inverness (near the bus station). Bookings to: www.kilmartin.org Inverness Local History Forum & ARCH. Phone 077888 35466 Email [email protected] E28 2-3pm £ IN or [email protected] A Talk about the Highlanders’ www.archhighland.org.uk Museum, Fort George E95 7-8:30pm F/D IN Illustrated talk for Inverness Local History Forum by Gill Bird, Highlanders Museum Education Officer. Mine How You Go Venue: Spectrum Centre, Margaret Street, Inverness Allan Kilpatrick of HES describes efforts by the U.S. and IV1 1LS. Non-members £3. Royal Navy in 1917-18 to lay a huge minefield called Inverness Local History Forum the North Barrage between Orkney to Norway. He Email [email protected] examines the massive industrial, transport and naval www.facebook.com/ InvernessLocalHistory resources required to prevent German U-boats from attacking allied convoys, and how this relates to other E96 7:30-9pm F/D SU activity in the Moray and Cromarty firths at the time. Various exhibitions will also be available for browsing Caithness Broch Project from 4pm. Venue: Spectrum Centre, Inverness (near Talk about the Caithness Broch Project by Iain the bus station). No booking necessary. Maclean. Venue: Golspie Heritage Centre, Inverness Local History Forum & ARCH. The Welcome, Station Road, Golspie. Phone 077888 35466 Golspie Heritage Society Email [email protected] www.spanglefish.com/golspieheritagesociety or [email protected] www.archhighland.org.uk 24 EVENTS E31 7-8pm F/D 11+ RC Friday 4th October Kirkmichael: Back from the Brink of Destruction E34 1-4pm F/D RC Dr. Jim Mackay presents an entertaining and Wartime Remains at informative presentation on the rescue of the medieval mausoleum and church at Kirkmichael, the North Sutor and Black Isle. Venue: Fortrose Library. Nigg Fortrose Library (High Life Highland). Join Allan Kilpatrick of HES Phone 01381 622235 for a tour of the wartime Email [email protected] defences on the North Sutor, and if time permits, at www.highlifehighland.com/libraries Nigg Battery. Level 2 walk. Meet at Nigg pier car park. Bookings to: E32a 1:30-3pm F/D RC ARCH. Phone 077888 35466 Email [email protected] A Walk Round Tain’s www.archhighland.org.uk Gruesome Past A walk round Tain with E9b 10am-4pm F/D RC Jason Ubych featuring Ross and Cromarty Heritage the scenes of some of See details under 28th September the events and stories from Tain’s gory past E35 7:30-9pm £ RC including ghosts, fairies, angels, witches, duels, Medieval Burials at Portmahomack hangings and other grisly –the Mystery of the Man punishments. Level 1 with Six Heads walk. Meet at Tain Collegiate Churchyard. Bookings The Tarbat Discovery burial project preferred to: targets specific burials from the later Tain & District Museum & Clan Ross Centre. medieval archaeology at Portma- Phone 01862 894089 homack. One was of a very tall man Email [email protected] www.tainmuseum.org.uk who was killed by a blade injury to his face and buried with four skulls surrounding his head. Cecily Spall E33a 11am-1pm £ 12+ RC will describe the results to date, Exploring which will include a facial reconstruction. the Boom Venue: Carnegie Hall, Portmahomack. £4. Tarbat Discovery Centre. Phone 01862 871351 Defence at Email [email protected] Mellon tarbat-discovery.co.uk/ Charles, E36 7:30-9:30pm F/D RC Loch Ewe The Power of Water at Redcastle A guided walk Talk by Graham Clark on the to inspect the WWII installation and nearby gun industrial archaeology of the emplacements. Level 2 walk. Meet at Boom Defence Redcastle Burn which was compound, Mellon Charles (NH 84462 91090). the major source of 19th £5 – which includes free entry to the RACP Exhibition century power for the lairds Centre in Aultbea after the walk. Please ring the day at Redcastle. Venue: North Kessock Village Hall. The before for a weather update. Bookings by phone to: Russian Arctic Convoy Project. exhibition ‘Killearnan Revisited’ and a new publication Phone 01445 712869 on Killearnan will also be available for browsing. Email [email protected] North Kessock & District Local History Society. www.theracmproject.org Phone 07757 821373 Email [email protected] www.northkessockhistory.com

25 Culloden Library (High Life Highland) & E37 7-8:30pm F/D RC Highland Historical Search Society. Inverewe in its Setting – the Making Phone 01349 781391 of the Local Landscape Talk by archaeologist E6c 10am-4pm

EVENTS IN John Wood. Venue, Suggested donation £3 Osgood Café, Inverewe Wardlaw Mausoleum Open Day Garden (NG 86303 See details under 28th September 81652). Bookings online please E41a 12:30-5pm £ IN National Trust for Scotland (Inverewe Garden). Phone 01445 712954 Wax Carving Email [email protected] www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/inverewe/events Workshop Carve a Pictish brooch E38 11am-1pm F/D SU in jewellers’ wax with silversmith Megan The Durness Riots Falconer at Urquhart Malcolm Bangor-Jones provides a talk on the famous Castle. No experience riots of 1841 when the women of Ceannabeinne necessary. Once your township defied a clearance order. Venue: Durness brooch has been carved, it will be cast in silver, fin- Village Hall Lounge. ished in the workshop and posted back to you. Cost ARCH & Durness Village Hall. Phone 077888 35466 £20 per person, 10% discount for Historic Scotland Email [email protected] members. Bookings online please: www.archhighland.org.uk Historic Environment Scotland. Phone 0131 652 8156 Email [email protected] Saturday 5th October Historicenvironment.scot/events

E42 1-4pm F/D IN E39 9:30am-4pm F/D CA A Walk Along the Lost Historic Road Shielings Revisited Come for a 30 minute walk up the hill at Abriachan Out of Caithness Forest, enjoy the views across the Great Glen, learn Follow an early part of the road called Ca Na Catanach about life at the shielings and participate in some old (The Sutherland Men’s Path) from Dorrery to Loch dairying, peat cutting and wood/wool crafting activi- Caluim in this walk led by David Glass. Level 1 or Level ties. Level 2 walk. Meet at the Abriachan Forest Fank 3 walk, depending on preferences: the return journey carpark (NH 559 348). Bookings to: is about 14 Km, but there is plenty to see along the Abriachan Forest Trust. Phone 01463 861236 early part of the route for those who don’t fancy that Email [email protected] distance. Meet and depart from the train stations, www.abriachan.org.uk Wick at 9:30am and Thurso at 10am. Caithness Field Club. Phone 01847 811298 E43 8-10pm £ IN Email [email protected] Stars and Stories Around the Fire E40 10am-12pm F/D IN Stargazing at Abriachan Forest guided by astronomer Detecting the Past Stephen Mackintosh. Clear skies = outdoors under the stars. Cloudy night = Stephen will host a talk in Explore the fascinating the forest classroom. Wrap up warm, bring your own world of metal detecting. binoculars and enjoy hot drinks and bere bannocks Attendees will have a chance around the campfire. Meet at the Abriachan Forest to chat with experienced Classroom. Over 16s £5. Bookings please via Event- local detectorists, look at a Brite. range of finds from the area, Abriachan Forest Trust. Phone 01463 861236 as well as to try out different metal detectors available Email [email protected] on the market. Venue: Culloden Library. www.abriachan.org.uk

26 EVENTS E98 2-4pm F/D LO E9c 10am-4pm F/D RC Responsible Metal Detecting & Ross and Cromarty Heritage Treasure Trove See details under 28th September With Ross Hunter, local metal detectorist, and Emily E48 10am-4pm F/D RC Freeman, Treasure Trove Officer from National Museums Scotland. Find out about metal detecting Black Isle Gathering in Lochaber and how to report your finds to Treasure A free, all-day indoor ‘street market’ for community Trove. Bring along your local finds for identification. groups, small businesses, craft workers, churches, Bookings to: charities, societies, associations, sports clubs, and West Highland Museum. Phone 01397 702169 heritage organisations working on the Black Isle. Email [email protected] Activities for all ages. Venue: the entire ground floor of www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk Fortrose Academy. www.spanglefish.com/blackislegathering/ E45a 12-4pm F/D in part RC E49 10:30am-12pm F/D 4+ RC Stones and Stories of Digging for Dinosaurs and Fossils Join us for a morning of dinosaur and fossil themed Kirkmichael – activities, crafts and stories at Highland Museum of Historic Kirk and Childhood in Strathpeffer. £3.50. Bookings to: Highland Museum of Childhood. Kirkyard Phone 01997 421031 Tours of the kirkyard Email and kirk, including [email protected] unique medieval cross slabs in restored nave, at 12pm www.highlandmuseumofchildhood.org.uk and 3pm. Uncovering hitherto unrecorded historic grave slab at 1pm. See also our Facebook page. The E50a 2-5pm £ SL kirk is at Balblair, Black Isle IV7 8LQ and open through- Historic Plockton Village Tour out the day (MHG8777). Explore the historic Kirkmichael Trust. Phone 07786 335062 Email [email protected] planned village of www.kirkmichael.info Plockton, dating from www.facebook.com/kirkmichaeltrust 1801, with the Trust ranger. Take a gentle stroll, listen E46 10am-4pm F/D RC to some stories from the past and visit the main features of this delightful Open day at Edderton Old Church village. Level 1 walk. Meet at main car park, NTS Visitor Visit the beautiful 18th century church (MHG8648), Centre. Adults £5, children free. walk around the graveyard and see the Pictish stone. National Trust for Scotland (Balmacara Estate). Experienced guide on hand. Phone 01599 566325 Edderton Old Church Preservation Trust. Phone 01862 821325 E51 11:30am-3pm F/D 8+ SU Email [email protected] Walking Brora’s Industrial Tramways

E47 10am-4:30pm F/D RC & Waggonway A guided walk along Brora’s Killearnan Memories Revisited industrial coal and salt Another chance to explore the farms and castles of tramways and waggonways the north shore of the Beauly Firth in this one-day (1770-1970), visiting the coal exhibition at North Kessock Village Hall. Refreshments, mine, woollen mills, station, bookstall and children’s section. bridge, harbour and salt pans. Level 2 walk, with North Kessock and District Local History Society. most of the walk on secondary roads. Meet at Brora Phone 07757 821373 Heritage Centre. Bookings to: Email [email protected] Clyne Heritage Society (Brora Salt Pans Research www.northkessockhistory.com Group). Phone 07530 826358 Email [email protected]

27 Sunday 6th October Monday 7th October

E17b 11-11:45am OR 2-2:45pm F/D IN E54 10am-1pm F/D RC

EVENTS Explore the Highlanders’ Museum’s The Power of World War One Handling Collection Water Walk and See details under 29th September Talk Explore the industrial E6d 10am-4pm archaeology of the Suggested donation £3 IN Redcastle Burn, the Wardlaw Mausoleum Open Day major source of power for the 19th century lairds as we walk along its banks. See details under 28th September Level 2 walk. Meet at Killearnan Church Hall car park (NH 5765 4952). Bookings by phone please to: £ IN E41b 10am-2:30pm North Kessock & District Local History Society. Wax Carving Workshop Phone 07757 821373 [email protected] See details under 5th October www.northkessockhistory.com

E52 12-5pm F/D RC Tuesday 8th October One Shot: Inchindown So keen to capture the record-breaking space of Inchindown underground oil storage facility, Simon E55a 11am-1pm £ 12+ RC Riddell of SR Film Photography camped overnight inside the service tunnels and created the world’s larg- Guided Walk around WWII Battery at est darkroom. Meet the man, witness the large format Rubha nan Sasan, Cove, Loch Ewe photograph and preview the documentary at Inver- Explore the well- gordon Museum. Limited spaces, so book early to: preserved remains of Invergordon Museum. Phone 01349 853509 the defences north of Email [email protected] Cove which protected www.invergordonmuseum.co.uk the fleets of merchant ships and their escort E53 1:30-3:30pm F/D SL warships before they embarked on “the A Walk Around Ashaig worst journey in the world” to Russia during 1941-45. Join John MacLeod Level 2 walk. Meet at the car park at the end of the for a walk around the B8057 (10 miles from Poolewe). £5 which includes free multiperiod site of entry to the RACP Exhibition Centre in Aultbea after Ashaig near Broadford the walk. Please ring the day before for a weather on Skye, looking at update. Bookings by phone to: prehistoric roundhouse, Russian Arctic Convoy Project. burnt mound and shell Phone 01445 712869 middens, the chapel Email [email protected] site with holy well, a preaching site and a limekiln. Level 2 walk. Meet at E26b 10:30am-12pm F/D SU Ashaig cemetery car park. ARCH. Phone 077888 35466 Drop in to Golspie Heritage Centre Email [email protected] See details under 1st October www.archhighland.org.uk

28 EVENTS E56 1:30-3:30pm F/D SU E59 10am-12pm £ RC A Guided Visit to Dunrobin Castle Family History for Beginners Museum Workshop run by staff from Highland Archive Centre Join Susan Kruse of ARCH for Dingwall Library You Time programme. Adults for a guided visit to the £6.40, over 60s £3.20, budget 50p, High Life Highland wonderful museum in members free. Bookings to: the grounds of Dunrobin Dingwall Library. Phone 01349 869869 Email: [email protected] Castle. This hidden gem includes an important collection of prehistoric finds E60 10am-3pm F/D RC and Pictish stones. The event is only to the museum, and anyone wishing to visit the castle and grounds will Exploring the Aird need to purchase entry tickets. Bookings essential to: ARCH. Phone 077888 35466 Peninsula, Shieldaig Email [email protected] A walk to explore the fishing www.archhighland.org.uk settlements of the peninsula, with plenty to see and great views, led by Anne MacInnes Wednesday 9th October (MHG28606, MHG21193, MHG46055). Level 2 walk, approximately 6k. Meet outside the primary school, Shieldaig (NG 81668 54368). The walk is weather E27b 1:30-4pm F/D AR dependent, so booking essential to: Guided Walk of Kilmartin NoSAS. Phone 07919 311584 Email [email protected] Glen Monuments www.nosas.co.uk See details under 2nd October Thursday 10th October E57 9:30am-4:30pm £ BS ‘From Crucks to Crinkly Tin’ – Traditional Structures and Settle- E61 10am-12pm F/D CA ments in the Central Highlands Yarrows – the Other Side A one-day seminar at Am Fasgadh, Highland Folk A walk around the other side of Yarrows, exploring the Museum, Newtonmore, on the subject of traditional broch, standing stones, Neolithic chambered cairns, buildings, bridges and roads of the Central Highlands. possible Neolithic rock art and a set of stone rows. £30 includes teas/coffee and lunch. Bookings to: Level 2 walk, requiring a reasonable level of fitness. Highland Folk Museum. Phone 01349 781650 Meet at South Yarrows car park. Email [email protected] Yarrows Heritage Trust. Phone 07548 679241 www.highlandfolk.com Email [email protected] www.yarrowsheritagetrust.co.uk E58 11am-4pm, Recommended donation £10 BS E64 7-8:30pm CA The Slochd Shielings Excavations at Swartigill A 4 mile walk, led by John Orr, from the Slochd along Talk by Martin Carruthers (UHI) about recent the old military road to explore some of the deserted excavations at Burn of Swartigill Iron Age site. villages on the hillside. Level 2 walk in an upland area Venue: Thrumster Village Hall. with some steepness and over rough ground at times. Yarrows Heritage Trust. Phone 07548 679241 A reasonable level of fitness is required. Meeting place Email [email protected] given out on booking to: www.yarrowsheritagetrust.co.uk High Life Highland Countryside Rangers. Phone 01463 644834 Email [email protected] www.highlifehighland.com

29 E62 6-7:15pm £ LO Email [email protected] www.highlifehighland.com/inverness-museum- The Prehistory of Lochaber and the and-art-gallery/ Corran Ferry Beaker Join Maya Hoole, researcher E66 7:30-9pm £ NA EVENTS and archaeologist, for a talk The Northern Barrage 1918 – The about prehistory in Lochaber, including the 3D images she Biggest Mine-Planting Stunt in the created from the Museum’s World’s History Corran Ferry Beaker. Venue: West Highland Museum. Illustrated talk by Richard Jenner on £2, West Highland Museum members free. Limited the minefield laid by the U.S. Navy spaces, so bookings to: at the end of WWI between Orkney West Highland Museum. Phone 01397 702169 and Norway, and the activities in the Email [email protected] Moray and Cromarty firths relating www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk to this activity. Venue: Nairn Free Church. £4. E32b 1:30-3pm F/D RC Nairn Literary Institute. Phone 01667 458820 Email [email protected] A Walk Round Tain’s Gruesome Past www.nairnliterary.org.uk See details under 3rd October E9d 10am-4pm F/D RC E63 7-8pm F/D 11+ RC Ross and Cromarty Heritage Mapping Heritage: See details under 28th September Flowerburn and Fortrose Inverness Museum curator Alison Parfitt will talk on heritage maps and related resources, with KEYNOTE TALK – OPEN TO ALL the opportunity to view stunning estate maps of E67 7:30-9pm Flowerburn, recent acquisitions to the museum Suggested donation £5 IN collection. Venue: Fortrose Library. Fortrose Library & Inverness Museum (High Life Living and Dying in Iron Age Highland). Phone 01381 622235 Caithness Email [email protected] www.highlifehighland.com/libraries Andy Heald (AOC Archaeology) presents the findings of recent th Friday 11 October work at some Caithness brochs, undertaken E65 10:30am-4pm £ IN as part of various initiatives over the last two decades by a range of Identifying Prehistoric individuals, groups and communities. Pottery The lecture will show the value of returning to This workshop led by Beverley Balin antiquarian investigations and present new Smith of GUARD Archaeology will insight into life and death in Caithness from the provide guidance on identification Late Bronze Age through to the Viking period. The of prehistoric pottery. Aimed opportunity will also be taken to tie the recent at professional archaeologists, findings into current research into the Atlantic museum staff and volunteers, fieldwalkers, or Scottish Iron Age. Venue: Highland Council interested amateurs. Venue: Inverness Museum and Chamber, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness. Parking Art Gallery. £20 for professionals, £5 for museums and permit available at door. No need to book. non-professionals. Bookings essential to: Inverness Museum and Art Gallery Highland Council. Phone 077888 35466 (High Life Highland) & Highland Council. Phone 01349 781730

30 EVENTS E69 11am-12pm £ IN Saturday 12th October What’s Under Your Feet? An E68a 9am-5pm £ IN Archaeological Tour of Culloden Join the engagement team to discover what’s Recent Archaeological under your feet at Culloden. Level 1 walk. Meet at Admissions area, Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre. Discoveries and Research £5. Bookings to: Conference National Trust for Scotland (Culloden Battlefield See centre pages of the brochure Visitor Centre). Phone 01463 796090 Email [email protected] www.nts.org.uk/visit/events/whats-under-your- E97 2-4pm F/D CA feet-archaeological-tour-of-culloden

Open Day at Old St Peter’s Kirk and E70a 10am-3pm £ LO Graveyard, Thurso Enjoy the architecture and Drop In Activities at historical mysteries of this Glencoe Folk Museum 12th century church. Local We’ll be running a series of fun volunteers will guide and activities for children all week. Check explain features. our social media pages nearer the Old St Peter’s Kirk time for full details. Adults £3, children free. Preservation Association. Glencoe Folk Museum. Phone 07799 434663 Phone 01855 811664 Email alison@murkle. Email [email protected] eclipse.co.uk www.glencoemuseum.com www.facebook.com/GlencoeFolkMuseum

Highland Life Natural History Cameron Square CameronFort Square William HighlandThe Jacobites Life Fort William Commando Exhibition The Jacobites Natural History

Free Admission Open All Year Round Archaeology Please see website for up-to-date opening times www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk

Archaeology31 Commando Exhibition

Free AdmissionAdmission Monday-SaturdayPlease see website for March-Decemberup-to-date opening times www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk E45b 12-4pm F/D in part RC E73 10am-4pm F/D IN Stones and Stories of Kirkmichael – Bere and Butter: Historic Kirk and Kirkyard traditional crops See details under 5th October and dairy products EVENTS Help us harvest, process and E9e 10am-4pm F/D RC cook some of our traditional Ross and Cromarty Heritage bere barley into bannocks at the Shieling Project at Struy near Beauly (NH384404). See details under 28th September Work with our Shetland cattle to milk and process that into butter, or perhaps even some non-traditional Sunday 13th October ice-cream! Wellies, waterproofs and warm clothing are essential. Please let us know any dietary requirements. Bookings to: E68b 9:30am-4pm £ IN The Shieling Project. Phone 07584855846 Email [email protected] Recent Archaeological www.theshielingproject.org Discoveries and Research E70b 10am-3pm £ LO Conference See centre pages of the brochure Drop In Activities at Glencoe Folk Museum See details under 12th October Monday 14th October E75 2-4pm F/D RC E71 1:30-2:30pm OR 2:45-3:45pm Suggested donation £2 5+ AR Nigg Old Church Information on the church Bronze Age Pottery and the Pictish Nigg cross slab (MHG8468, MHG7496), plus an Workshop exhibition of local photographs Discover more about Bronze Age and maps. There will also be a short walk along pottery in this family workshop and nearby Bishops Walk ending with tea/coffee and create your own pot to take home. home bakes. Level 1 walk. Bookings (specifying which session) Nigg Old Trust. Phone 01862-851212 to: Email [email protected] Kilmartin Museum. Phone 01546 510278 www.niggoldtrust.org.uk Email [email protected] www.kilmartin.org E76 7:30-9pm £ SL

E72 10am-4pm F/D CA From Beakers to Barley: From Castles to Croft Excavations at the Site of Houses in the Past to the Broadford Medical Present in Caithness Centre, Skye A drop in session showing a Steven Birch will present results wide selection of original source from excavations at the site of the maps and plans to see how Broadford Medical Centre where exciting prehistoric buildings locally have changed over time. There is also and later finds were uncovered, including a cist burial a chance to annotate and add to the changes in the and Iron Age corn drying kiln. Venue: Tigh na Sgire, archive. Children under 8 must be accompanied by an Park Lane, Portree. Charge for non-members. Further adult. Venue: Wick High School. details from Portree Local History Society Facebook Wick Library and Nucleus Archive (High Life pages. Highland). Phone 01955 609709 Portree Local History Society Email [email protected]

32 EVENTS Tuesday 15th October Wednesday 16th October

E70c 10am-3pm £ LO E27c 1:30-4pm F/D AR Drop In Activities at Glencoe Folk Guided Walk of Kilmartin Museum Glen Monuments See details under 12th October See details under 2nd October

E77 11am-12pm F/D in part RC E70d 10am-3pm £ LO Explore Clachan Drop In Activities at Glencoe Folk Graveyard, Applecross Museum Tour of historic Applecross See details under 12th October graveyard (7th-21st century), followed by exploring the E79 2-3:30pm £ 4+ RC graveyard website. Level 1 walk. Meet at Applecross Heritage Centre. Ancient Superheroes Applecross Historical Society. A craft session at Highland Museum of Childhood in Phone 01520 744255 Strathpeffer for children making ancient, superhero Email [email protected] finger puppets and figures. £3.50. Bookings to: www.applecrossheritage.org.uk Highland Museum of Childhood. Phone 01997 421031 E78 2:30-3:30pm F/D RC Email curator@highlandmuseumofchildhood. org.uk Plants Used in the Past www.highlandmuseumofchildhood.org.uk Walk and talk discovering uses E80 10am-12pm £ RC of wild plants in the past. Level 1 walk. Meet at Applecross Archives for Family History Heritage Centre. Workshop run by staff from Highland Archive Centre Applecross Historical Society. for Dingwall Library You Time programme. Adults Phone 01520 744255 £6.40, over 60s £3.20, budget 50p, High Life Highland Email [email protected] members free. Bookings to: www.applecrossheritage.org.uk Dingwall Library. Phone 01349 869869 Email: [email protected] £ 12+ E33b 11am-1pm RC E81 10am-4:30pm F/D RC Exploring the Boom Defence at Over the Hill, Dundonnell to Clachan Mellon Charles, Loch Ewe on the Coffin Route, Loch Broom See details under 3rd October Follow this old coffin route from Dundonnell over the hill to Clachan Church, looking at the history E26c 10:30am-12pm F/D SU of the area and for wildlife while taking in views, and including the Clachan Drop in to Golspie Heritage Centre Church open day. Level 3 See details under1st October walk: rough, steep and boggy in places and there is a river E50b 10am-1pm £ SL crossing. Participants must have good fitness. Car shuffling Historic Plockton Village Tour arrangements and meeting given See details under 5th October. Note different times. on receipt of bookings. Booking by 4pm on 15/10/19 to: High Life Highland Countryside Rangers. Phone 01854 613526 Email [email protected] www.highlifehighland.com/rangers/

33 E82 11am-4:30pm F/D RC Email [email protected] www.strathglass-heritage.co.uk Clachan Glebe Lands: More Fishing Than Faith E86 4-8pm A circular walk around one of the largest glebes in Suggested donation £5 IN

EVENTS Scotland with archaeologist Cathy Dagg looking at the varied archaeology and telling a few stories, Fire and Folklore and including the Clachan Church open day. Level 3 Spend an evening around the walk. We will be going quite high in the hills and the campfire exploring Highland weather will be changeable, so dress accordingly. history and hunting for secretive Meet at Clachan Church (NH 1771 8479). Bookings to: nocturnal creatures. Level 1 walk. Cathy Dagg. Phone 07717863255 Email [email protected] Meet at Magnus House, Aigas Field Centre. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Bookings to: Aigas Field Centre. Phone 01463 783670 F/D E83 11am-4:30pm RC Email [email protected] Open Day at Clachan Church, www.naturedays.org.uk Lochbroom E74a 10am-4pm £ 8+ IN A chance to visit this well preserved church (MHG7829) Wolf Brother: Mesolithic Menus and built in 1817, and now in Much, Much More community ownership. Trust Join Torak’s team to take part members on hand to provide in a series of survival skills and historical background. Wheelchair access possible challenges in and around the with assistance. Abriachan forest. You will live Clachan Lochbroom Heritage Trust. lightly on the planet - build Phone 07817 362454 shelters, cook over the campfire, make leather pouches and th cordage. Meet at the Abriachan Forest Classroom. Thursday 17 October Children must be accompanied by an adult. Note there will be different activities on the 17th and the E84 11am-1pm and 2-4pm F/D BS 18th. Bookings to: Abriachan Forest Trust. Phone 01463 861236 Heritage in Action at the Highland Email [email protected] Folk Museum www.abriachan.org.uk Traditional activities and events in and around the 1700s township including weaving and cooking. Drop E70e 10am-3pm £ LO in event. Drop In Activities at Glencoe Folk Highland Folk Museum. Phone 01349 781650 Email [email protected] Museum www.higlandfolk.com See details under 12th October

E85 2-4:30pm F/D in part IN E94 10am-12pm F/D 8+ MO Marydale Church and Crime Scene Excavations! Clachan Comar Chapel Join us at Elgin Museum as we dig into a murder Guided visit to Marydale Church, mystery with an archaeological twist! Children must Cannich, with ancient baptismal be accompanied by an adult. Bookings to: stone, and then the medieval Elgin Museum. Phone 01343 543675 Email [email protected] ruined Clachan Comar chapel and graveyard www.elginmuseum.org.uk (MHG15707, MHG2756). Level 1 walk. Meet at Marydale for visit to church, then share transport to E87 9:30am-1pm F/D RC Clachan Comar. Strathglass Heritage Association. Tarbat: Two Houses and a Castle Phone 01456 415457 A guided walk, led by Roland Spencer-Jones, to the

34 EVENTS east of Kildary to explore the illustrated talk at Brora Community Centre. Raffle and archaeological remains of refreshments. two great Mackenzie houses, Clyne Heritage. Phone 01408 621338 and the preceding castle Email [email protected] (MHG45136). At the end, Clyneheritage.com there will be the option of a longer walk down to the firth. Level 1 walk. Meeting Friday 18th October arrangements on enquiry. Bookings by phone to: NoSAS. Phone 07787 507972 Email [email protected] E91 2-4pm F/D IN www.nosas.co.uk Highland Artefacts Workshop leaders at ARCH’s E32c 1:30-3pm F/D RC Experimental Archaeology project A Walk Round Tain’s Gruesome Past made a variety of objects, and See details under 3rd October have donated them for loans box- es. Come and handle prehistoric E88 10am-1pm F/D RC to modern artefacts and replicas, and hear stories of their manufacture and use. Ormond Hill Walk ARCH & Culloden Library (High Life Highland). This easy walk (4.75km/3miles) Phone 077888 35466 led by Marcia Rae provides Email [email protected] beautiful views over the Moray www.archhighland.org.uk Firth. We will visit the remains of F/D Ormond Castle (MHG8226), which has a particular E92 2-4pm IN significance in Scottish history. Level 1 walk. Meeting Highland Heritage place given on booking. Booking essential online to: High Life Highland Countryside Rangers. Archives Phone 07788387634 The Highland Archive Centre Email [email protected] in Inverness will host a www.highlifehighland.com/rangers/ display of archives relating to the history and development of the Highlands. E89 7:30-9pm £ RC Historic documents telling the story of some of the Highlands’ churches, schools, businesses and families Healing Wells: Their Contemporary will be on display, along with a variety of family trees Use, History and Folklore and other information. Talk by Roddy McKenzie. Venue: West Church Hall, Highland Archive Centre (High Life Highland). Cromarty, IV11 8YR. £3, under 16s free. Phone 01349 781130 Cromarty History Society. Phone 01381 600337 Email [email protected] Email [email protected] www.highlifehighland.com/highland-archive- www.cromartyhistory.scot centre

E55b 11am-1pm £ 12+ RC E74b 10am-4pm £ 8+ IN Guided Walk around WWII Battery at Wolf Brother: Mesolithic Menus and Rubha nan Sasan, Cove, Loch Ewe Much, Much More See details under 8th October See details under 17th October. Note there will be different activities from the session the 17th E90 7:30-8:30pm F/D SU E70f 10am-3pm £ LO Bridgescapes Bridgescapes is a personal journey through history, Drop In Activities at Glencoe Folk celebrating Scotland’s bridge building heritage. Bruce Museum Keith (Surveyor and Environmentalist, originally See details under 12th October from Dores, Inverness-shire) will provide this digitally

35 ARGYLL

E27 2nd, 9th, 16th Oct Guided Walk of Kilmartin Glen Monuments P24, 29 and 33 E71 14th Oct Bronze Age Pottery Workshop P32

BADENOCH & STRATHSPEY

E3 28th Sept Slochd To Sluggan Bridge Military Road Walk P14 E29 3rd Oct On the Trail of the Wolf of Badenoch P24 E57 9th Oct ‘From Crucks to Crinkly Tin’ P29 E58 9th Oct The Slochd Shielings P29 E84 17th Oct Heritage in Action at the Highland Folk Museum P34 BY REGION INDEX BY Special exhibition at Grantown Museum

CAITHNESS

E14 29th Sept Landscape of Forse P17 E39 5th Oct A Walk Along the Lost Historic Road Out of Caithness P26 E61 10th Oct Yarrows – the Other Side P29 E64 10th Oct Excavations at Swartigill P29 E97 12th Oct Open day at St Peter’s Kirk and Graveyard, Thurso P31 E72 14th Oct From Castles to Croft Houses in the Past to Present in Caithness P32 Special exhibitions at Dunbeath Heritage Museum & Nucleus (Wick Archives)

INVERNESS-SHIRE

E1 27th Sept Out of the Dark: Looking Beyond the High Pasture Cave Complex, Skye P14 E4 28th Sept Agricultural Working Vintage Rally and Display P14 E5 28th Sept Print Workshop at Fort George (for families) P15 E6 28th, 29th Sept, 5th, 6th Oct Wardlaw Mausoleum Open Day P15,17, 26 and 28 E15 29th Sept Guided Walk to Comar Wood Dun P17 E16 29th Sept Print Workshop at Fort George (for adults) P17 E17 29th Sept, 6th Oct Explore the Highlanders’ Museum’s World War One Handling Collection P17 and 28 E21 30th Sept HERO Day: Contributing to Our Heritage Knowledge P23 E22 30th Sept Metal Detecting in the Highlands P23 E28 2nd Oct A Talk about the Highlanders’ Museum, Fort George P24 E30 3rd Oct The Northern Barrage in the Highlands: One Day Conference P24 E95 3rd Oct Mine How You Go P24 E40 5th Oct Detecting the Past P26 E41 5th, 6th Oct Wax Carving Workshop P26 and 28 E42 5th Oct Shielings Revisited P26 E43 5th Oct Stars and Stories Around the Fire P26 E65 11th Oct Identifying Prehistoric Pottery P30 E67 11th Oct Living and Dying in Iron Age Caithness P30 E68 12th, 13th Oct Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Research Conference P31 and 32 E69 12th Oct What’s Under Your Feet? An Archaeological Tour of Culloden P31 E73 14th Oct Bere and Butter: traditional crops and dairy products P32 E85 17th Oct Marydale Church and Clachan Comar Chapel P34 E86 17th Oct Fire and Folklore P34 E74 17th, 18th Oct Wolf Brother: Mesolithic Menus and Much, Much More P34 and 35 E91 18th Oct Highland Artefacts P35 E92 18th Oct Highland Heritage Archives P35 Special exhibitions at The Highlanders Museum & Spectrum Centre, Inverness

36 LOCHABER INDEX

E7 28th Sept Guided Walk: The Siege of Fort William and Beyond P16 E18 29th Sept Guided Walk to Blarmachfoldach near Fort William P17

E98 5th Oct Responsible Metal Detecting & Treasure Trove P27 BY REGION E62 10th Oct The Prehistory of Lochaber and the Corran Ferry Beaker P30 E70 12th, 14th-18th Oct Drop In Activities at Glencoe Folk Museum P31, 32, 33, 34 and 35

MORAY

E8 28th Sept Excavations at Burghead P16 E19 29th Sept Tour of Kinloss Abbey P17 E94 17th Oct Crime Scene Excavations! P34 Special exhibitions at Burghead Visitor Centre & Findhorn Heritage Centre and Icehouse

NAIRN

E66 11th Oct The Northern Barrage 1918 P30 Special exhibition at Nairn Museum

ROSS AND CROMARTY

E9 28th Sept, 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th Oct Ross and Cromarty Heritage P16, 25, 27, 30 and 32 E10 28th Sept Explore and Use Wartime Cameras P16 E11 28th Sept Achtercairn Archaeology Trail P16 E23 1st Oct Foraging Walk, Isle Martin, near Ullapool P23 E24 1st Oct Isle Martin Heritage: What’s New? P23 E31 3rd Oct Kirkmichael: Back from the Brink of Destruction P25 E32 3rd, 10th, 17th Oct A Walk Round Tain’s Gruesome Past P25, 30 and 35 E33 3rd, 15th Oct Exploring the Boom Defence at Mellon Charles P25 and 33 E34 4th Oct Wartime Remains at the North Sutor and Nigg P25 E35 4th Oct Medieval Burials at Portmahomack –the Mystery of the Man with Six Heads P25 E36 4th Oct The Power of Water at Redcastle P25 E37 4th Oct Inverewe in its Setting – the Making of the Local Landscape P26 E45 5th, 12th Oct Stones and Stories of Kirkmichael – Historic Kirk and Kirkyard P27 and 32 E46 5th Oct Open day at Edderton Old Church P27 E47 5th Oct Killearnan Memories Revisited P27 E48 5th Oct Black Isle Gathering P27 E49 5th Oct Digging for Dinosaurs and Fossils P27 E52 6th Oct One Shot: Inchindown P28 E54 7th Oct The Power of Water Walk and Talk P28 E55 8th, 17th Oct Guided Walk around WWII Battery at Rubha nan Sason, Cove P28 and 35 E59 9th Oct Family History for Beginners P29 E60 9th Oct Exploring the Aird Peninsula, Shieldaig P29 E63 10th Oct Mapping Heritage: Flowerburn and Fortrose P30 E75 14th Oct Nigg Old Church P32 E77 15th Oct Explore Clachan Graveyard, Applecross P33 E78 15th Oct Plants Used in the Past P33 E79 16th Oct Ancient Superheroes P33 E80 16th Oct Archives for Family History P33 E81 16th Oct Over the Hill, Dundonnell to Clachan on the Coffin Route, Loch Broom P33 E82 16th Oct Clachan Glebe Lands: More Fishing Than Faith P34 E83 16th Oct Open Day at Clachan Church, Lochbroom P34

37 E87 17th Oct Tarbat: Two Houses and a Castle P34 E88 17th Oct Ormond Hill Walk P35 E89 17th Oct Healing Wells: Their Contemporary Use, History and Folklore P35 Special exhibitions at Alness Heritage Centre, Dingwall Library, Groam House Museum, Invergordon Museum, North Kessock Village Hall & Tarbat Discovery Centre

SKYE AND LOCHALSH

E12 28th Sept Skye Ecomuseum Archaeology Day P16 E50 5th, 16th Oct Historic Plockton Village Tour P27 and 33 E53 6th Oct A Walk Around Ashaig P28 E76 14th Oct Excavations at the Site of the Broadford Medical Centre, Skye P32 BY REGION INDEX BY Special exhibition at Skye & Lochalsh Archive Centre

SUTHERLAND

E2 28th Sept History on your Doorstep: Lochinver P14 E13 28th Sept Helmsdale’s Sea Fishing Heritage: Recording and Photographing Survey P16 E20 29th Sept Guided walk to Strath Brora Townships of Greeanan and Fearach P23 E25 1st Oct Dun Creich Walk P23 E26 1st, 8th, 15th Oct Drop in to Golspie Heritage Centre P24, 28 and 33 E96 2nd Oct Caithness Broch Project P24 E38 4th Oct The Durness Riots P26 E51 5th Oct Walking Brora’s Industrial Tramways & Waggonway P27 E56 8th Oct A Guided Visit to Dunrobin Castle Museum P29 E90 17th Oct Bridgescapes P35 Special exhibition at Brora Library

INDEX OF SPECIAL EVENTS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES While many of the events welcome children, some are specially designed for children. Look out for the symbol.

IN E17 29th Sept, 6th Oct Explore the Highlanders’ Museum’s World War One Handling Collection P17 and 28 IN E86 17th Oct Fire and Folklore P34 IN E74 17th, 18th Oct Wolf Brother: Mesolithic Menus and Much, Much More P34 and 35 LO E70 12th, 14th-18th Oct Drop In Activities at Glencoe Folk Museum P31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 MO E93 Entire Festival Kids Archaeology Trail at Elgin Museum P14 MO E94 17th Oct Crime Scene Excavations! P34 RC E49 5th Oct Digging for Dinosaurs and Fossils P27 RC E79 16th Oct Ancient Superheroes P33 – Special Children’s Events INDEX – Special Children’s

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PHOTO CREDITS Front cover: main Image Castle Brochel on Raasay by Iain Sarjeant | small images left to right - Highland Council, ARCH, Invergordon Museum and Highland Council. Back cover: main image Iain Sarjeant | small images left to right - Maya Hoole, NoSAS, Highland Archive Centre and Clyne Heritage.