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Archaeology Week 12 - 20 October
2002 Caithness
Programme 2002
Archaeology Week In Caithness and Highland is
in October each year.
Events will be notified later in the year.
For a full list of events in the Highlands check
out the
Archaeology Unit of
Highland Council Web Site
Yarrows Trust are
doing two walks during Highland Archaeology Week
Both on Sun. 13th October -
10 a.m. Swartigill Burn (New discoveries)
See
Pictures From The Swartigill Walk on 13 October 2002
2:00 p.m. - Sarclet Harbour and village
See Pictures From The Sarclet
Outing on 13 October 2002
Caithness Events in Oct
2002
Sunday 13 October
Follow the "Priest’s Road" over the Scarabens. Visit chapel sites - see a
vision of the angels on the mountains? Booking essential, places limited.
Please call Meg Sinclair for details of times. £2.00 Meet at Dunbeath
Heritage Centre.
Dunbeath Preservation Trust Tel: 01593
731233
Thursday 17 October
6.30pm-8.00pm. Drawing from the
Past. A look at a collection from the Scottish Architects’ Papers
Preservation Project held in the North Highland Archive. Wick Assembly
Rooms, Wick.
Siobhan McConnachie, RCAHMS Tel: 0131
6621456
7.30pm-9.00pm. Cross Stones in Northern Scotland, Illustrated lecture
by Ian Fisher of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments
of Scotland. Pentland Hotel, Thurso. Caithness Field Club.
G. Leet Tel:
01847 896989
Sunday 20 October
9.30am. North Castles, Keiss to Old Wick. Drive and walk to see Old Keiss,
Ackergill, Sinclair, Girnigoe and Old Wick Castles. Meet at 9.30am
Thurso Railway Station or 10.00am Wick Railway Station. Transport
required. Caithness Field Club
Tel: 01847 896989
Pictures from 20 October 2000 led by Archaeologist Noel
Fugit
First six pictures - Nybster Broch
Second Six Pictures Keiss Broch beside cemetery
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