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Scottish Archaeology Month 2007

Events List

Event Name Event Location Time/Date
Ackergill to Sinclair Girnigoe Cars will leave Railway Station car parks, Thurso at 10am, Wick at 10.20, meeting at Ackergill Harbour, 10.40am 10:40am Sunday 30 September
The Newbarns Project Newbarns, Colvend, By Dalbeattie, DG5 4PY 11:00 - 16:00, 1st -23rd September
Celts and Romans at Birnie Open Day with the National Museums Scotland Birnie, near Elgin, Moray - Directions to site can be picked up from Elgin Museum 10:00-16:00, 9th September
Beneath Your Feet Montrose Museum & Art Gallery, Panmure Place, Montrose, Angus DD10 8HF 10:00-17:00 Daily, 01/09/07 - 30/09/07
The Burial Mounds of Methlick Methlick car park, AB41 13:30-16:00, 16 September
Sticks N' Stones Myrekirk Road, Dundee Time: TBA - 19th September
Around Mendick Hill Meet at War Memorial, Village Green, West Linton 10:00-16:00 2nd September
Cramond and its Island The Maltings, Riverside, Crammond, Edinburgh, EH4 6NY 09:00 - 17:00, Saturday & Sunday 16th
Crail Guided Walk Crail Museum & Heritage Centre, 62/64 Marketgate, Crail, KY10 3TL 14:30-16:00, 9th September
Dig It! Drop In Montrose Museum, Panmure Place, Montrose, DD10 8HE 10:00-12:00, 15th
Kelburn Castle Archaeology Day Fairlie, North Ayrshire, KA29 0BE 10:00, 11th
Views, Visions, Voices Kilmartin House Museum, Kilmartin, Lochgilphead, Argyll, PA31 8RQ 10:00 - 17:30, throughout September
Assynt Archaeological Survey Meet at the Assynt Visitor Centre Lochinver. 10:30 - 15:30, 10th
Roman In The Gloamin Elgin Museum, 1 High Street, Elgin, Moray, IV30 1EQ 13:00-14:00, Fridays 7, 14,21,28
Still Life - A Black Economy of Ross-shire 200 years ago Scatwell, Strathconon, Ross-shire - 8 kilometres west of Marybank. Parking at a premium, please park as directed. 10:30-13:30, 30th
Come & Try Underwater Archaeology The Scottish Crannog Centre, Kenmore, Loch Tay, Perthshire, PH15 2HY 11:00-13:00, 8th
Shallow Water Archaeology The Scottish Crannog Centre, Kenmore, Loch Tay, Perthshire, PH15 2HY 12:00-14:00, 1st
Scipio�s House Excavation Culzean Castle Country Park, Maybole, Ayrshire, KA19 8LE 09:30-16:30, 10th-16th
Culzean self guided archaeology trail Culzean Castle Country Park, Maybole, Ayrshire, KA19 8LE 17th - 30th
The Archaeology of Arran: The Iron Age Ranger Centre, Brodick Castle, Isle of Arran, KA27 8HY 09:30-16:00, 22nd - 23rd
Bannockburn Battlefield Walk Bannockburn Heritage Centre, Glasgow Road, Stirling, FK7 0LJ 13:00-17:00, 26th
Back in time on Ben Lomond Ben Lomond, Ardess Lodge, Rowardennan, By Drymen, G63 0AR 10:00-15:00, 14th
Ardess Hidden History Trail Ben Lomond, Ardess Lodge, Rowardennan, By Drymen, G63 0AR 10:00-15:00, 15th
Four Forts Pentland Hills (Contact organisers for details) 10:00-15:00, 30th
Loch Awe Paddle Kilmartin House Museum, Kilmartin, Lochgilphead, Argyll, PA31 8RQ 11:00, 15th
Reconstructing the Iron Age! 97 Lanark Road, Edinburgh, EH14 2LZ - Down the long driveway from Lanark Road 26-30th Sunday 30th is Open Day (12:00-16:00)
The Capital of the Votadini Tribe Carpark (north-side) Traprain Law, near East Linton 19:00-21:00, 5th
East Lothian Archaeology Week 2007 East Lothian 8-17th
Sunnybrae Cottage Sunnybrae Cottage, Pitlochry 11:00 & 11:45, 25th
Everything you wanted to know about brochs and were afraid to ask Dun Telve parking area in Glen Beag 14:00, 28th
From the Industrial Revolution to Nylon Socks Stanley Mills 11:30 & 13:30, 23rd
The German High Seas Fleet Scapa Flow, Orkney Time TBC, 14th
The Antonine Wall Rough Castle 11:00 & 14:00, 1st, 2nd, 8th, 9th
Holyrood Archaeology Day Holyrood Park, Edinburgh 11:00-15:00, 30th
Bishop's and Earl's Palace Bishop's and Earl's Palace, Kirkwall 14:00, 29th
Earl's Palace Earl's Palace, Birsay 14:00, 16th
Noltland Castle Noltland Castle, Westray Time TBC, 8th
Experimental Archaeology Archaeolink Prehistory Park, Oyne, Nr. Insch, Aberdeenshire, AB52 6QP 10:-17:00, Every weekend in September
A stroll by Sinclair Bay Meet at Thurso Train Station at 10am or Wick Train Station at 10.20am. 10:00 (at Thurso Station) or 10:20 (at Wick Station), 30th
A walk by the Dornoch Firth Dornoch airstrip car park, Dornoch, Sutherland 13:30, 23rd
YoungArchaeologists@Aberdeen Open Day Marischal Museum, Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1YS 13:30-15:30, 8th
Doing the Telford Walk Meet at Wick Railway Station at 10am 10:00, 22nd
Fungi Foray and Natures Larder Meet at Dunnet Forest Car Park, Caithness 10:30, 23rd
Prestongrange Community Archaeology Project: Open Day Prestongrange Museum, Morrison's Haven, Nr. Prestonpans (Signposted off the B1348) 11:00-16:00, 8th
Berneray Machair Berneray, Isle of North Uist, HS6 10:00, 8th
Caithness Doors Open Day Caithness 8th, All day
Callander History Callander Meadows car park, off Main Street, Callendar 10:00-14:00, 9th
Open afternoons Coldingham Priory, Coldingham, Berwickshire, TD14 5NS 14:00-16:00, 5, 12, 19, 26
The Struan Day Kildonan Museum, South Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS8 5RZ 10:00-17:00, 29th
Across the Water to Rossinish Baymore, Grimsay, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS6 5HX 08:00-12:00, 1st
Abertay Historical Society: Archaeology Lecture Discovery Point, Dundee, DD1 4XA 18:30, 12th
Village or Tower? In Search of Ousdale and Borgue Roy Brochs Meet at Dunbeath Heritage Centre, Old School, Dunbeath, Caithness, KW6 6ED 13:00, 6th Oct
Archaeology and Shipwrecks in Fife Scottish Fisheries Museum, St Ayles, Harbourhead, Anstruther, Fife, KY10 3AB 19:30, 20th
Tower: Edinburgh Castle�s Hidden Secret Edinburgh Castle, EH1 2NG 10:00-14:00, 19, 20, 25
Early Glimpses: excavations within St Nicholas Church, 2006 Provost Skene's House, Guestrow, Aberdeen AB10 1AS Moday-Saturday 10:00-17:00, Sunday 13:00-16:00, Throughout September
Making Sense on MAC, Fife's Mobile Museum Townhouse, Wemyssfield, Kirkcaldy 11:00-17:00, 16th
Sandpit Archaeology: The Little Dig The Scottish Crannog Centre, Kenmore, Loch Tay, Perthshire, PH15 2HY 12:00 & 14:30, 16th
Guided walk to Cairnhowit Meet at the bandstand at Clydebank shopping centre. 12:00-16:00, 16th
Strathfillan Gold Tyndrum FK20 8RY 11:00-16:00, 15th
History Along the Way� Meet at the Trossachs Discovery Centre, Aberfoyle, FK8 3UQ 09:00-16:00, 12th
Get a Bead on the Past National Park Centre, Luss G83 8PA 11:00-16:00, 22nd
Walk'n'Talk The Parish Church of Lyne and Manor,Peebles. EH45 9JH (approx.4.5 miles west of Peebles on A72 road) Between 14:00 & 17:00, 2nd
Archaeology Walk Around Dryhope Tower Dryhope Tower east end of St Mary's Loch. Meet at the car parking lay-by on the A708 near Dryhope Tower across the road from the east end of St Mary's Loch. 14:00-17:00, 19th
Guarding the Nith� Castles and Camps Meet at Castle Corner car park 10:00-12:30 1st
Forts, Birds and Barytes:� Balcary Coastal Walk Balcary car park (behind the hotel) 10:30-15:30, 6th
Open Day� Excavations at John Paul Jones Cottage John Paul Jones Cottage, Arbigland, Kirkbean (11 miles south of Dumfries) 10:00-15:00, 6th
Meggat Water� Antimony and Agriculture Glendinning car park, at head of Meggat Water, 10 miles NW of Langholm 11:00-14:00, 14th
A Tour in Time Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery, War Memorial Gardens, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1YG 10:00-16:00, 15th
Graveyard Walkabout Walk around 2 graveyards, Abbotshall start and Old Kirk finish. Start NY2 5PA 14:00-16:00, 2nd
Rubble ruins and remains Spittal of Glen Muick visitor centre. AB35 5SU 14:00-15:00, 23rd
Work of the Archaeology Service Archaeolink, Oyne, AB52 6QP 10:00-17:00, throughout September
�Pictish Sculpture and Lay Patronage� by Lloyd Laing Dunbeath, Heritage Centre, Dunbeath, KW6 6ED 10:30, 1st
An Exploration of the East End of Loch Naver 9am @ Wick Train Station or 9.30am at Thurso Train Station 09:00/09:30, 2nd
Ancient Meals and Medicines 14:00, 29th
Explore Sinclair Bay 10:00am Thurso Train Station or 10.20 am Wick Train Station 10:00/10:20, 30th
Farming in Caithness in Ancient Times by Raymond Lamb ERI, Castle Street, Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7JD 19:00, 1st October
�Mey be or Mey be not: Facts & Myths of the Castle of Mey 1860 � 1890� By Barbara Hiddleston. Pentland Hotel, Princes Street, Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7AA 19:00, 2nd October
Active Woods - Rumster Forest Archaeology Before The Forest. Rumster Forest Paddock 11:00-13:00, 3rd October
�Break, Break, Break on thy cold grey stones�, By John Barber & Paul Humphreys Pentland Hotel, Princes Street, Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7AA 19:00, 4th October
The Secret Village of Badryrie with the Caithness Rangers. Meet at Loch Stemster Road end 8th October
Highland Archaeology Fortnight 2007 Highland-wide programme of events 29th September - 14th October