24 February 2014

Have you ever wondered how you find out about finds from an area? 

The North Kessock and History Local History Society currently has an ongoing project - Feats of Clay - which is investigating the context for clay moulds found in recent excavations at Bellfield, North Kessock. The moulds were used to make clay sickles in the late Bronze Age (c. 950-800), and are rare evidence of metalworking from this period.

This ARCH course will complement the project, showing how to find out about known Bronze Age metalwork from the Moray Firth area. We will compile a gazetteer of known metalwork from the area, and where possible obtain photographs, including taking pictures of objects in local collections and Edinburgh. The results will be used by Trevor Cowie who is writing a book for the Feats of Clay project.

Courses will meet at the Reading Room in Inverness Library in the old Archives room. No experience necessary.

24 February 2014

Migration of some Border shepherds to Caithness and Sutherland in the late 18th/19th century

Talk by Jenny Bruce

Dingwall Community Centre, 7:30 (doors open at 7pm). Suggested donation £3.

Interesting stories of the introduction of sheep, the families who came to oversee, and later emigrate to the Colonies. This talk also includes Thomas Telford's engineering enterprises in the northern counties and his influence at this particular time.