17 September 2016

Doors Open Day. The following are open:

Clan Gunn Heritage Centre, Latheron (Sat only)
Dunbeath Heritage Centre (Sat only)
St Andrew´s Cathedral, Inverness (Sat only)
Waterlines Heritage Centre, Latheron
Mill Theatre, Thurso (Sat only)

Full details on Doors Open Day website

17 September 2016

Community Heritage Conference

Argyllshire Gathering Hall, Oban PA34 5NZ

Further details  and bookings (£10) to Archaeology Scotland http://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/news/community-heritage-conference

Scotland’s Community Heritage Conference at Oban
Saturday 17th September 2016

9.15 -10 Registration desk (tea and coffee available)
10.00 Conference opens

10.00 Robin Turner (HES, Chair) Welcome
10.10 Caroline Boswell & Rhona Dougall (Oban Communities Trust)
Oban Social History – Heritage Hunters
10.35 Elaine Black (ACFA) Riddle of the sands - ACFA Tiree Survey 2016
11.00 Katie Hunter (DRBs Scottish Women’s History Group)
The Frederick Douglass Project: a 19th century Scottish protest campaign

11.25 Coffee break

11.45 Ardnamurchan History & Heritage Association
Exploring and celebrating the heritage of the Ardnamurchan peninsula
12.10 Robert Hay (Lismore Historical Society) The Lismore Nave Project
12.35 Campbeltown Grammar School The historic township of Glenrea
13.00 ONE MINUTE MAYHEM! 60-second presentations by conference delegates

13.15-14.50 Lunch and Stalls
Two lunchtime events will begin at 13.45, each lasting about 60 minutes:
a. Oban Built Heritage Trail, led by volunteers from Oban Communities Trust
b. Architectural Orienteering Trail with a difference (and a prize!) led by Scotland’s Urban Past

14.50-17.00 Community Empowerment Seminar introduced by Phil Richardson (Archaeology Scotland)
(with coffee break at 15.40)
This year sees the implantation of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015, which will open up new possibilities for publicly-owned assets to be transferred to and managed by local communities. This afternoon’s seminar will be an opportunity to discuss ongoing work and aspirations among communities across the country, and the skills and support that groups might need along the way. We will here from communities already involved in asset transfers, including
Oban Communities Trust;
Am Fasgadh regeneration Company (Kingussie);
Forres Heritage Trust (Scottish Heritage Angels Award winners in 2015)
Short presentations from these three will be followed by a broad discussion, with professional experts in the field on hand to give their advice.

17.00 Thanks and Finish

17 September 2016

Another chance to see North Kessock & District Local History Society's exhibition on the Kessock Ferry.

North Kessock Village Hall

Old photographs & historic records, films, tea room, raffle, children's corner and much, much more.

All Welcome. Free entry.

Free Entry

17 September 2016

Plane Table survey at Wilkhouse, Kintradwell

Organised by Clyne Heritage Society

The footings of an old inn on the east coast of Sutherland, to the north of Brora, at Wilkhouse (mentioned in Donald Sage's 'Memorabilia Domestica'), below Kintradwell will be the focus of a plane table survey this Saturday. Volunteers to assist with the survey and interested people are welcome to attend. Meet at Brora Heritage Centre at 10am of Saturday, 17th September - outdoor clothing, sturdy footwear and a packed lunch essential!

The survey is a precursor to a planned archaeological excavation in May 2017 to try to learn more about the inn, especially with regard to its role in cattle droving. Donald Sage, the son of Rev Alexander Sage, the Minister of Kildonan, was sent to public school in Dornoch when he was 12 years of age and he recounted, in Memorabilia Domestica, in detail a lunch stop he had made at Wilkhouse with his father on his way to his new school. He must have made it a regular stopping-off point on his termly journey to and from home, as he wrote that 'This Highland hostelry, with its host Robert Gordon and his bustling, talkative wife, were closely associated with my early years, comprehending those of my attendance at school and college.'

For more details of either the initial plane table survey or the excavation, or to register an interest in either, please contact Clyne Heritage Society on info@clyneheritage or phone 01408 621338.