21 April 2013

Sunday 21 April in Nigg Hall 2.30pm - 4.00pm followed by refreshments

 Historical harp specialist Bill Taylor will present an overview of music-making in early Medieval Scotland, based on iconographic evidence found on Pictish stones. The harp depicted on the Nigg cross-slab is a particularly fine example. Images of harps, often connected to larger story cycles of King David, appear on about a dozen stones, and new theories are emerging which explore the origins, distribution and construction of such instruments. Bill will cite the appearance of harps on different stones, discuss the context of the imagery, and also play reconstructions of harps, including examples strung with wire, gut and horsehair. On this occasion visitors will have the chance to see the harp modelled on the Nigg harp, exhibited here by courtesy of the Board of Directors of Groam House Museum. For all ages, including children over 8 years.

For further information, see theNigg Old Church website.

21 April 2013

University of Aberdeen is running a dig at Easter/Wester Rariche dun and fort near Nigg. They intend to place few trenches on Easter Rarichie plus additional surveys and one trench on Wester Rarichie. They will be starting on Easter Rarichie.

For further information contact Oskar on 07557-356080 

Directions from Inverness A9 north, take the B9175 Arabella Road, Turn right at Ankerville corner road to Balintore. At Wester Rarichie take the farm track on the right.
Please note the track is uphill, could be muddy and wet.