30 September 2015

Week long exploration of Bronze Age remains, part of ´A Window on the Hidden Bronze Age Landscape of Caithness´ project.

The fourth and final week of the summer school will involve exploration of key sites identified during the field survey programme. This block of fieldwork will investigate how the buried archaeology relates to the features detected by LiDAR, and how extensive prehistoric settlements really were. Training will focus on tracing and mapping the extents of prehistoric settlements through small scale excavations. Participants will gain key archaeological skills that can be transferred to future archaeological projects.

Monday 28th September will be spent at Castlehill Heritage Centre, with the remainder of the week being spent in the field. Please meet at the Heritage Centre at 9am each day, unless advised otherwise.

All project events are free and open to all, but you MUST register to take part in the summer school. This is partly because places are limited, but also so that we can keep participants informed about arrangements during the fieldwork.

Please register by emailing charlotte.douglas@aocarchaeology.com with details of when you would like to attend the summer school.

Participation in all 6 days of each week is not mandatory – please attend as and when you can!

If you register but find that you are unable to attend, please email Charlotte as above so that she can allocate your place to someone else.

Further information from the AOC website 

30 September 2015

Circles within Circles: Prehistoric roundhouses in a Wester Ross Landscape 

Anna Welti shares the story the Wedigs Community Archaeology project, run from 2012 – 2014. Find out about the work and research findings gathered by the enthusiastic volunteers who undertook this major survey and follow-through excavation of roundhouses in Wester Ross. The results have been fascinating, adding greatly to our understanding about the use, structure, dating and landscape of these typically Highland features.

£3.00. Booking is essential, in person at Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, call 01463 237114 or email cait.mccullagh@highlifehighland.com

30 September 2015

'Planned Estate Villages in the Highlands, 1730 to 1830’

Talk by Chris Rendell

Dingwall Community Centre. Suggested donation £3

Chris Rendell looks at the changes to the human landscape locally that came about in response to post 1745 politics, the Enlightenment and the revolution in industry and agriculture.
 

30 September 2015

The Drama of British History through Stamps

Talk by John Noble

Dingwall Community Centre. Organised by Workers' Educational Association (WEA). Minimum donation: £2. Further information 01463 710577.

Followed by AGM.