People view their landscape in different ways, depending on where you were brought up, your education (I'm a geographer by degree and so see the landscape in terms of ice sheets and erosion!) and, it has to be said, how fast you travel through it!
I like this picture of volunteer archaeologists completing a GPS survey of the Bruan Broch site. It captures the enjoyment that all people who attended the events experienced from learning new skills, seeing and recording the landscape in ways that perhaps they had not done before. I can almost hear the volunteer archaeologists saying, "I can do this!!!!" And they did and contributed to the archaeological record of this historically important area.
The aim of the whole year long event was not only to train people in the basic techniques of archaeology but also give them an opportunity to see their landscape in a different way.
I like this picture of volunteer archaeologists completing a GPS survey of the Bruan Broch site. It captures the enjoyment that all people who attended the events experienced from learning new skills, seeing and recording the landscape in ways that perhaps they had not done before. I can almost hear the volunteer archaeologists saying, "I can do this!!!!" And they did and contributed to the archaeological record of this historically important area.
The aim of the whole year long event was not only to train people in the basic techniques of archaeology but also give them an opportunity to see their landscape in a different way.
I spent the first two years of my life living less than a mile from Thing’s Va and I never knew it existed until I was 64. It is amazing that this place exists.
Easily the equal of Nybister and Skara Brae. I look forward to the full extent of what the excavations and geophysics reveal.
I found a lot of people busily working on Caithness’s past and if so many can be found working on our future then we will be fine for the next 2000 years!
R M (Caithness)
