The Saltwater Mill, Petty: A Wonder of the Parish
by Marion Ruscoe
When I first started looking at the site of the Saltwater Mill at Petty Bay, I was writing a general survey of industry in Petty Parish (2019). I discovered that there was very little primary evidence for the mill and access to the site was not easy. In fact, at the time, I couldn’t see how to get down to the site, since the Castle Stuart Golf Course had taken over the area to…
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A History of the Road between Dingwall and Poolewe
From the written evidence of secondary sources and maps on the maps.nls and Scotlandspeople websites
by Meryl Marshall
Background
In the years before the 18th Century the Highlands were regarded as a hostile backward country, travelling was difficult, there were few visitors and many journeys were made by boat. In 1793 George Brown reported that,
The most necessary and useful line of road…
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Petty Bay on the Moray Firth, Inverness-shire
by Marion Ruscoe
1st ed. 25” OS map (NLS)
Petty Bay lies approximately 5 miles east of Inverness. Today it’s bypassed by the A96, but a map of 1798 shows that the original road from Inverness to Ardersier and Fort George looped off the Inverness-Nairn route at Allanfearn and joined the present B9039 at Castle Stuart Farm. The 1st edition 25” Ordnance Survey map indicates a track running down…
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Carn Glas Chambered Cairns, Inverness: An Update
by Jonathan Wordsworth
The following is an addendum to the previous Carn Glas blog post of July 2023.
Drone image of Carn Glas after clearance of gorse looking north to Inverness and Moray Firth ©AHickie
It took two more days of work in August to clear the remaining gorse scrub off the cairn to reveal the monument in its glory. With funding from Historic Environment Scotland we were able to…
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Cairns in Clusters: Chambered Cairns in Assynt
By Gordon Sleight
Carrachan Dubh chambered cairn near Inchdnadamph
Over the last twenty years I have thoroughly enjoyed tramping around Assynt, sometimes on my own and sometimes with groups of friends. That sense of enjoyment is often enhanced by surprises. It might be disturbing a mountain hare and seeing it race away at speed or watching an overhead confrontation between golden and…
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Does Remote Loch an Tachdaidh Contain a Crannog?
by Roland Spencer-Jones
This remote loch is far from any normal vehicular access. The boundary between Attadale and Pait estates runs roughly SW-NE through the middle of the loch. Approach routes to the loch are from Pait on Loch Monar to the NE, Attadale towards the head of Loch Carron in the W, and Killilan via Strath Duilleach and the Iron Lodge to the SW. There are three islands in the loch,…
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Carn Glas Chambered Cairns and Essich Farm, Inverness: An Interim Report
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Iron Age Hut Circles in the Middle of Nowhere: Submerged Prehistory in Upper Glen Cannich
by Roland Spencer-Jones
Does every excavation and discovery have a story behind it? Maybe. This one certainly does. When did the story start? With shepherds moving into empty land in the early 19th century? With the gradual depopulation of Highland glens in the early half of the 20th century? With the construction of the largest dam in Scotland completed in 1952?
Maybe it’s best to start this…
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Der Knoten international hat unterstützt Über 40 Millionen Partner Planen die Hochzeit in Bezug auf Bestrebungen
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Highland Heritage Day 2023: A Way Forward?
by Susan Kruse
Did you know that there are around 100 heritage organisations and over 50 museums in the Highlands – and a number of community trusts and individuals who have heritage projects on the go? Few of us know what others are doing, and we rarely have a chance to meet up. ARCH has over the years tried to find out contact details, in part due to work organising the Highland Archaeology…
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Skeletons under the Floorboards: A Multiple Iron Age Burial in Applecross
by Cathy Dagg
The Background
In July of 2015 workmen renovating an old house in Applecross reported finding a human skull under the kitchen floor. They had, apparently, found other bones and thinking them to be animal, chucked them out. The skull initially looked like a cobble, similar to the cobbles that made the former storm beach that the house had been built on, but when it proved to be…
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Inchberry Farm and Steading, near Beauly – A Relationship with Serendipity
by Roland Spencer-Jones
A view of the steading from the South
A new report entitled Inchberry – a settlement, a farm, a steading and a family has just been posted to the NOSAS website. It describes the history of a farm and steading at Inchberry, on the south side of the Beauly Firth. What was remarkable about the work that went into the report was that serendipity provided most of the…
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The NOSAS Crannogs Project – Update, December 2022
The NOSAS Crannogs Project – Update, December 2022
by Richard Guest
Loch Glass crannog, October 2022.
The Crannogs project has now been running for a couple of years. Starting as a desktop exercise, we have now progressed to some site investigation and have managed a couple of dives.
A second phase of desktop study is underway and a picture of potential crannog occurrence in Wester Ross, Lochaber and Badenoch is beginning to emerge. Wester…
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The Kebbuck Stone, Ardersier: A Lost Pictish Symbol Stone?
The Kebbuck Stone, Ardersier: A Lost Pictish Symbol Stone?
by Fiona Campbell-Howes
This is the Kebbuck Stone, a relief-carved cross slab dated to the 8th or 9th century, which today sits in the back garden of a cottage near Ardersier.
Location of the Kebbuck Stone in Nairnshire
It’s usually overlooked in the corpus of early medieval (“Pictish”) stone sculpture because the carvings have almost completely worn away and the surface of the stone is…
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A Coastal Walk on the Moray Firth: Castle Stuart and Alturlie
A Coastal Walk on the Moray Firth: Castle Stuart and Alturlie
by Anne Coombs
I don’t like the A96. It’s a very busy road and the archaeology is not particularly exciting; crop marks and just the occasional cairn. But here I was driving along from Inverness to Castle Stuart to meet the people from ScAPE, beginning their new recording project along the northeast coast. The plan was to walk from Castle Stuart round towards Ardersier, with expectations of…
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The NOSAS Crannogs Project
The NOSAS Crannogs Project
by Richard Guest
Loch Achilty crannog (see Canmore)
I have long been fascinated by crannogs. I remember back in the 80’s tiptoeing across a partly submerged causeway to visit one in a Shetland lochan. Then, later, visiting the reconstruction in Loch Tay and seeing a TV programme about it. Later still, whilst on a Nautical Archaeology Society training course I met one of the divers who had…
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The Glencarron Lodge Stalkers' Paths
The Glencarron Lodge Stalkers’ Paths
By David Jarman
a Powerpoint/pdf slideset accompanies this blogpost, providing a preliminary photo-documentation of the paths, with background history.
The networks of stalkers’ paths created by the Highland sporting estates from their advent in the earlier 19th century and into the 20th century have received remarkably little attention from historians or archaeologists. Yet they transformed…
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