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The Caithness Field Club produces an annual bulletin with article produced by its members and others. The bulletins have been published since 1973 and the articles cover many topics relating to Caithness and the north of Scotland. The bulletins are reproduced on Caithness.org with the kind permission of the Caithness Field Club and its members with whom copyright remains. Caithness.org is grateful to Janet Mackenzie for her assistance with these pages. |
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THE SCULPTURED STONES
OF CAITHNESS
A survey by Tim Blackie and Colin Macaulay
Section commenced 24 January 2003
completed 15 April 2003
| Caithness Field Club Summer Programme 2005
Some Highlights of Natural History in 2004 Field Club Activities in 2004 (by Marion Owen) A Surprising Co-incidence and an Apology The Caithness Secret Army in World War II 201 BN News More Big Cats The Fungi in Dunnet Forest The Pilkington Family in Caithness Caithness Cetaceans Historical Letter No 1 Hetty Munro's War Diaries A Letter from Robert Burns to Sir John Sinclair A Botanical Local Change Project News of Caithness Archaeological Trust Highland Archaeology Week October 2005 The John o' Groats Legend: Fact or Fiction? Snippets and Stories about The Royal Hotel, Thurso |
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| 2002 | Editorial Club Officers 1999-2000 2000 Summer Programme Club Activities 1999 Agnathan from Spittal Quarry Twites Wintering in Caithness Rockets from the North Shore Skelpick and Rhifail Life-saving at Wick Chapel & Graveyard at Oldhall, Watten Coastal Landmarks Building the John O�Groats Mill in 1901 Forests in the New Millennium How Did it All Begin? Dummy Airfield at Thrumster Field Club�s First Excursion, 17 May 1902 Sinclair Clan Gathering |
| 2000. |
Club Officers 1999-2000, Editorial, 2000 Summer Programme, Club Activities 1999, Agnathan from Spittal Quarry, Twites Wintering in Caithness, Rockets from the North Shore, Skelpick and Rhifail, Life-saving at Wick, Chapel & Graveyard at Oldhall, Watten, Coastal Landmarks, Building the John O�Groats Mill in 1901, Forests in the New Millennium, How Did it All Begin?, Dummy Airfield at Thrumster, Field Club�s First Excursion, 17 May 1902, Sinclair Clan Gathering |
| 1999 |
Club Officers 1998-1999 , Editorial, A Notice concerning the Freedom of information Act, 1999 Summer Programme, Account of Field Club Activities, Caithness Stone, Early Steamship Voyages in the North, Castles Sinclair and Girnigoe and the Origin of the Clan Sinclair, Isabella Fortuna, Birds Seen at Scrabster, Cigar Shaped Gravestones, 10cm Radar in Fleet Air Arm, Harrow Pavement Works, The Shape of Churches, A Modern "Bee Bole", Publications List, Cumulative Bulletin Index 1993-1998 |
| 1998 | Club Officers for 1997/8 Editorial Letters to the Editor 1998 Summer Programme Account of Field Club Activities 1997 The Devonian Fishes of Canowindra Cannon Battery at Victoria Walk A Second Glance at Brims Castle Murdo Rivach's Grave Addendum to Murdo Rivach Story A Rediscovered Church Defence of Britain's Project The Gauge of Slate Quarry Track-Ways A Bill of Material for Barn at Standstill Farm Pattern Recognition Field Club Publications |
| 1997. |
Club Officers & Editorial, 1997 Summer Programme, Letters to the Editor, Club Outings 1996, Memoirs of Hetty Munro, Queen Aud, Disaster Threatens at Seven Miles Up, A Tacksman At Borlum, Deer at Langwell, Robert Dick Collection, Scrabster Mission, Falkirk Tartan, Concentric Earthworks, No Accounting for Animals |
| 1996. |
An Account of the Club Outings, Another Perspective on the Sutherland Clearances, Wearing the Arsaidh, Artillery Batteries at Castletown and Mey, Ham Harbour, Caithnessians and Hess, The Eurasian Otter, Life Cycle of the Salmon, The Birth of "Shell" Tankers, The Shielings - Summer Camps, Watten Mills, Westside Croft (Mary's Cottage) |
| 1995. |
Natura 2000, Thoughts on Clan Tartans, Malthus, Ireland and the Highland Clearances, A Search for Uranium in Caithness, The Sinking of the Bismark 1941 |
| 1994 | Memories Of Halkirk From 1920 The Construction Of An Early Black House A Fantastic Find Of Devonian Fishes At Canowindra A Bottle-Nosed Dolphin In Thurso Bay The Geology & Paleontology Of the Shore Section Between Thurso & Scrabster A Remarkable Glacial Pavement Jurassic Park In Mongolia An Elizabethan Will The Highland Scots Become Interested In Railways Sweat Houses In North America Recent Publications The Orkney Science Festival - 11 - 14 September 1993??? |
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| 1993 | Editorial, AGM Address, Bumping Into The Americas, Burnt Mounds And Sweat Houses, Ships V Brochs, Cromwellian Soldiers In Cannesbay 1652 - 1655, The Seven Men of Knoydart, Cyclic Sedimentary Structures - North Sutherland, Westside Croft. |
| 1992 | Editorial, AGM Address, Clan Gunn Heritage Museum, Wintering Snow Buntings In Caithness, Holidays In Slickly, Stroma: The Island That Died, Winds Of Change, Holding A Pirates Ball |
| 1991 | Editorial Hang the Kaiser AGM Chairman's Address Cashmere Goats - A Venture For The Highlands The Blackbird The Passage Grave Cemeteries Of County Meath The Baligill Outlier The Old Red Sandstone Of Shetland Summer Programme 1991 |
| 1990 | March | Editorial Mammals Of the Northern Highlands Some Folklore About Plants and Flowers Little Boy Blue The Wick Charter The Tale Of The Puma A Model Doocot Some Census Sidelights On Victorian Caithness - Part Two |
| 1989 | April | Editorial Old Rural Caithness Through Writers' Eyes The Bouilag Four-Poster Some Census Sidelights On Mid Nineteenth Century Caithness Part 1 : Flitting Farmers and Settled Fisher Folk Freswick House The Village Of Captains |
| 1988 | April | Editorial A Short History Of The Field Club Dunnet Bay SSSI Historical and Present Day Ecology - Part Two The Psalm Tune "Caithness" The Education Of A Minister In the Late 18th Century A Brief Account Of Education In the Parish Of Reay Prior To 1870 Dounreay Castle The Sandside Kiln Barn The Orcadian Middle Old Red Sandstone |
| October | Winter Programme, Thurso East Icehouse, A Plea For Industrial Archaeology, Sheep saga - The North Ronaldsays, Mid Nineteenth Century Army Pensioners In The North Of Scotland |
| 1987 | April | Editorial - Rules And Constitution - The Voyage Of the Iris To Norway - St Drostan In Caithness - Some Results From Bird-Ringing In N. E. Caithness - Tree Planting In Caithness |
| October | Chairmans Report and Winter Programme, Archaeology, Early Shopping In Scotland, Brubster Places, Hanging about The highlands, Land Use and Vegetation. |
| 1986 | April | Editorial - Roads And Tracks Through History - Part Two - Unrecorded Ways - Brief History Of Brubster - Brubster; Pre-Improvements Agriculture - Wartime Boyhood In Wick |
| October | Editorial - Prison Life In Inverness Between
1700 And 1720 Dunnet Bay SSSI - Historical and Present Day Ecology Caithness Lighthouses - Roads and Tracks Through Local History - Part 3: Tracks, Fords and Chapels |
| 1985 | April | Editorial Caithness Geological Notes A Setting Of Stone Rows, Tormsdale, Caithness The Badryrie Project Badryrie - An abandoned Crofting Community In Latheron Sailing Directions For the North Coast |
| October | Editorial ROADS AND TRACKS THROUGH LOCAL HISTORY Part 1 - Historical Roads THE MULTIPLE STONE ROWS OF CAITHNESS AND SUTHERLAND 4. Their Purpose Tarradale Weekend Canisbay Parish Survey 1984 Air Operations From RAF Wick During World War 2 Part Three December 1941 - January 1943 Freswick Links, Caithness survey 1984 Some Incidents Involving Wick and Ackergill Lifeboats |
| 1984 | Editorial & Letter To
Editor - An Early Royal Visit To Thurso NOTES TAKEN FROM THE ACCOUNT BOOKS AND THE PUNISHMENT BOOKS - FOR THE THURSO COMBINATION POORHOUSE Impressions Of Eilean Na Ron - Wrecks Of The Pentland Firth 1918 - 1933 - Freswick Links - Neil Gunn and Dunbeath The Scottish Burgh Survey - Family Histories - The Sheep Eaters |
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| October | The Black Rat's Home in Roman Britain, Caithness Orchids, Some Discoveries in a Mound in Lythmore, Do We Persecute Foxes Unfairly?, The Special Touch of Caithness, Wrecks of the Pentland Firth |
| 1983 | April | 10 YEARS 1973-1983 BURIAL GR0UNDS OF CAITHNESS AND SUTHERLAND THE MULTIPLE STONE ROWS OF CAITHNESS AND SUTHERLAND 3. Their Description II THE JURASSIC BOULDER BEDS OF EAST SUTHERLAND CHRISTIAN COUPER AIR 0PERATIONS FROM R.A.F. WICK DURING WORLD WAR II PART TWO: JANUARY 1941 - DECEMBER 1941 REAY SCULPTURED STONES AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SEA BATTLE IN THE KYLE OF TONGUE WRECKS OF THE PENTLAND FIRTH |
| October | SIR JOHN GUNN, THE CARDIFF
BUSINESS ENTREPRENEUR FROM CAITHNESS NOTES ON THREE NINETEENTH CENTURY CAITHNESS DOVECOTES C0ALS TO NEWCASTLE? JAMES INNES OF CAPE FEAR WRECKS OF THE PENTLAND FIRTH 1890 TO 1917 |
| 1982. | April | The Multiple Stone Rows Of Caithness & Sutherland, Two Tales of the Caithness Bishops, Viscount Thurso of Ulbster (Sir Archibald Sinclair), Whaligoe |
| October | The Moon And The Northern Highlands Some Fungi Of Dunnet Forest Visitors Book Huna Inn 1879 THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, THE PUNCTUATION THEORY, AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO THE FOSSIL RECORD IN CAITHNESS Grain Kiln Floors Air Operations From RAF Wick During World War Two - Part One September 1939 - December 1940 A Note for the Record - A Coin Found At Strathnaver Deciduous Trees In Caithness |
| 1981. | April | Some Common Caithness Toadstools And Their Uses, The Motor Bus In Caithness, Markets in Caithness In the Old Days, Extracts From the Inspector Of Nuisances - Thurso 1891 - 96, Botany of Scrabster Braes, Research Into Family History |
| October | General The Lord Horne of Stirkoke - Caithness's Greatest General, Inspector of Nuisances, A Caithness School in the Early Nineteenth Century, Some Caithness Grasses |
| 1980. | April |
Chairman's Remarks and Bird Report, Historic Castles and Families of the North - The Sinclairs of Keiss, The Stone Rows of Caithness and Sutherland, Caithness Buttercups, Extracts From the Inspector Of Nuisances, Summer Programme 1980 |
| October |
Caithness Courier 1866, Andrew Geddes Bain - Road Engineer, Explorer and Geologist, Thomas Telford's Parliamentary Churches, Dirlot Castle - The Cheynes, Gunns, Sutherlands and Mackays, Invertebrates and the Pollution of Rivers, Excavations Relating to Caithness, Extracts From Reports By the Inspector Of Nuisances, Broubster & District Educational Records, Preserving Our Geological Sites, A Caithness School In The Early Nineteenth Century, Some Caithness Grasses, General The Lord Horne of Strikoke - Caithness's Greatest |
| 1979 | April | Vegetation Of the Isle Of Stroma The Radioactive Fishes Of The North Of Scotland Some Notes On The History Of the Rabbit In the North Bird Movements Through Caithness and North East Sutherland HISTORIC CASTLES AND FAMILIES OF THE NORTH 9 . Dunbeath Castle - The Sutherlands & Sinclairs of Dunbeath THE DISCQVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS AT CLARDON HAVEN, CAITHNESS |
| October | OF SCHIPPES AND BUSCHES Old Letter of November 1799 THE CAITHNESS FLAGSTONE INDUSTRY Castle Of Mey And Sinclairs Of Mey ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES AT THURSO RIVER HARBOUR 1922 |
| 1978 | April | Girnigoe Castle - The First to Sixth Earls of
Caithness THE CROFTER' S COMMISSION 1884 THE COGHILLS OF COGHILL The only Caithness Landholders "of that Ilk" EXCAVATIONS AT CLOW CHAPEL, WATTEN A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN CAITHNESS AND ORKNEY THE GLACIAL TILLS OF CAITHNESS CAITHNESS MONUMENTS 3. Sir George Sinclair, Fountain |
| October | Ardvreck Castle - The MacNicols and Macleods
of Assynt THE PROSPECTS FOR BEEKEEPING IN CAITHNESS NOTES ON F0UR CAITHNESS DOOCOTS THE WILD PLANTS OF THURSO RIVERSIDE DE SITU ALBANIE |
| 1977 | April | Ackergill Tower - The Keiths and Dunbars of
Hempriggs The Short Career Of Pirate John Gow BADRYRIE - An abandoned crofting community in Latheron Life On A Caithness Farm In 1862 BADGERS - A Tentative Survey An Unrecorded Stone At Broughwhin Chapel And Burial Ground At ch'na H-uai Kinbrace THE ARCHAEOLOGY, EXCAVATION AND DIGGING OF THE SCOTTISH CHAMBERED TOMBS Two Possible Prehistoric Quarries in Caithness Caithness Monuments - Harold's Tower |
| October | Editorial HISTORIC CASTLES AND FAMILIES OF THE NORTH 6. Forse Castle - The Sutherlands of Forse PARLIAMO THIRSA HYBRIDS IN THE CAITHNESS FLORA BALIGILL REVISITED A NOTE ON LYBSTER VILLAGE CNOC NA MARANAICH - A Megalithic Summer Solstice Observatory SURVEY OF A STONE SETTING AT CNOC AN LIATH-BHAID STRATH BRORA THE BEWITCHED CAITHNESS CROFT A Weird Mystery of Last Century Captain Slater's Monument on Holborn Head |
| 1976. | April |
Dunrobin Castle - Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, Caithness Folklore And Customs, Which Way Did the Great Glen Fault Move, Possible Monastery at Murkle, Three Caithness Doocots |
| October |
Declaration Of Arbroath, Oldwick & Berriedale Castles (Cheynes, Sutherlands of Duffus and the Oliphants), Some Recent Plant Records |
| 1975 | April | Editorial & Notes - Bucholie as Lambaborg - Deep Weathering of Rock in Caithness - The Early Ecclesiastical Remains Of Halkirk Parish - In Search Of The Real Old Mountain Dew- Hunting For Caithness Mosses And Liverworts - The Distribution Of Freshwater Fish In the British Isles - With Particular Reference To Caithness |
| October | Castles Gunn and Halberry -
The Gunns, Two New Castle Sites Early Ecclesiastical Remains Of Wick Parish, Traditional Knitting Patterns |
| 1974. | April |
The Evolution of the Vegetation of Northern Scotland, Northern Scotland Since the Ice Age - Chart, Rights of Way, Work Horses - A Look Back, Diverse Dandelions |
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"Orkneyinga Saga", Caithness Fern Survey, Caithness Historical Notes 1750 - 1900 (Introduction, The Croft House, Food and Drink, Clothing and Footwear, The Landholding and Crofting System, Farm Stock, Crops and Manure, Fences and Dykes, Communications, Improvements and Clearances, Crafts and Industries, Population Trends) |
| 1973. | April |
The First Bulletin |
| October |
St. Coombs Chapel, Botanical Records, Annual Dinner, Other Field Clubs, Boulder Clay of Caithness, Elphin Weekend, Medieval Urban Archaeology, Nature Notes, See North, See South, Survey of an Unrecorded Stone Setting Near Broubster, Shells, Excavations at Bishop's Castle, Scrabster |