2021-12-15 21:45
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’… Read More
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2021-08-08 10:35
by Meryl Marshall
The moated homestead in Achnasoul Wood (NGR NH 48808 51821 Canmore ID: 274702 Highland Council (HC) HER MHG29192) 4kms west of Muir of Ord was visited by NOSAS members o… Read More
2021-07-22 21:49
by Tim Blackie
In 2004, I was looking over my garden wall into Rosemarkie’s ancient graveyard and noticed gravediggers preparing a burial plot. Pictish sculpture has been discovered… Read More
2021-06-09 16:07
by Roland Spencer-Jones
Muir of Ord Golf Club may be unique in having a green on top of a scheduled ancient monument. Castle Hill, the 13th green, is an artificially modified mound, stand… Read More
2021-04-11 13:58
by John Wombell
Loch Kinellan, Google Earth 2015.A few notes on Kinellan Crannog for crannog enthusiasts. We are fortunate to live at Kinellan, about 400m away from the crannog as t… Read More
2021-01-16 20:54
by Anne Coombs
Figure 1: Looking out to sea
Caithness at the end of the 18th century was an exciting place to be. While maybe not the centre of the world, it was home to some of the… Read More
2021-01-06 20:51
by John Wombell
The Conan Stone on wood by John Wombell see A Newly Discovered Pictish Stone for Easter Ross
First the excuse. I tried this in the Autumn of 2019 to boost entries… Read More
2020-12-06 20:07
by Jonathan Wordsworth
The recent Zoom lecture by Matthew Knight on the Late Bronze Age Hoard found in a peat cutting behind Poolewe in 1877 (the talk can be viewed on the Gairl… Read More
2020-07-15 07:49
by Roland Spencer-Jones
Fig 1: Removing the corrugated iron reveals a modern timber roof and a cruck-frame
In early June 2020, I became aware that a neighbour on the braes below me was doing… Read More
2020-07-09 22:28
by Marion Ruscoe
Raigmore Hospital, 1948 © HES (Aerofilms Collection)
Raigmore Hospital was erected as part of the Emergency Medical Scheme (EMS) on part of the Raigmore estate an… Read More
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