28 September 2011

LIFE AND DEATH IN ASSYNT´S PAST

Excavations this summer:

CLACHTOLL BROCH 8 – 26 August

LOCH BORRALAN CHAMBERED CAIRN 28 August – 16 September

GLENLERAIG PRE-CLEARANCE LONGHOUSE 26 September – 8 October

Booking essential! Contact
Gordon Sleight 01571 855207
gordon@gsleight.freeserve.co.uk

28 September 2011

Local Heritage Overview

Boat of Garten Community Hall

Interested in your past but confused about what happened when? This short course will provide an introduction to the archaeology of the area from earliest settlers to recent remains.

Cost: £2.50/session  /  free to low income

Part of the ARCH´s Community Timelines programme

28 September 2011

Loch Ewe and the Arctic Convoys

talk by John Robertson, Inverness Aviation Museum

Dingwall Town Hall [note different location from previous talks]

John will share his vast knowledge about aviation in the Second World War to tell the dramatic story of the Arctic Convoys from a Highland perspective.

Organised by Workers' Educational Association as part of their lunchtime lecture series. Cost £1. No need to book. To be followed by WEA North Highland AGM, with refreshments. For further information contact inverness@weascotland.org.uk or 01463 710577.

28 September 2011

AOC Archaeology Group is pleased to be working with Caithness Archaeological Trust and Archie Sinclair Fossil Trust on their new community experimental archaeology project, STONEworks Early Architecture Project.

For four weeks from Monday September 19th 2011, we will be learning about building methods in the past; work will involve the construction of a section of broch, potentially reaching 10-12m in height. The wall will feature intra-mural galleries, as these were common in Iron Age brochs. Building the broch with large slabs of Caithness flagstone will be hard work, but we trust that participants will relish the challenge and enjoy the communal endeavour!

One of the main research interests of the project is to force the collapse of the structure, and in doing so, to find out more about the way in which brochs collapse. We will learn about this poorly understood process by depositing various items at specified locations in the broch walls; when we force the collapse of the broch, we can identify where those items ended up. This will hopefully reveal much about the processes that some archaeological artefacts go through before archaeologists find them many years later.

Volunteers of all ages are invited to take part; no experience is required, tools and training will be provided, and it’s free to participate. Artists, photographers, film-makers and art students will also be welcomed should they choose to come and take inspiration from the creation of an imposing and beautiful structure.

To take part or for more information, please contact Derek of Caithness Archaeological Trust email@caithnessarchaeology.org.uk Tel: 01593 731 269.