You guessed it, we’ve had another busy week!
Monday memories had a productive day with two new attendees! We are always happy for new members to get involved so please contact us to join, or just come along to a session.
Our Young Archaeologists’ Club had been on a Saturday fieldtrip to visit rock art sites near Aberfeldy, they also got to have a go at excvating near one of the stones, how exciting! This was organised by Perth and Kinross Heritage trust and there were some children from the Crannog’s YAC club there too. To find out more about the Lost stones of Strathtay project, visit this link.
We have had lots of visitors this week; from Pete Clark and his fiddle week students, to the Perthshire Society of Natural Science. We are happy to accomodate visiting groups as best we can, if you are interested in arranging a group visit, please get in touch!
Pete and the fiddle students
Some of the PSNS attendees
We have recently aquired a large collection of books belonging to our late former volunteer Eileen Cox, a big thank you to Garth Ponsonby for kindly donating the money to aquire this collection. Our volunteers are hard at work organising the books to be accessioned into our collection.
(A small selection of the books from the collection)
We have launched our new membership scheme this week in advance of our Archaeology and History Club launching on Saturday (however our first Talk with Allan Kennedy is on the 12th of September). To find out more and how to join have a look at our membership page via this link.
If you just want to join our Archaeology and History club, follow this link to join instead.
Our archaeology and history club launch day is Saturday the 13th of September, have you ever fancied learning excavation skills, fieldwalking, metal detecting, learning how to read old Scots etc? Come along and find out more, and sign up for the new club. Dr Gavin Lindsay will be demonstrating Topographical Survey in Stanley Hill park, so come along and try your hand at surveying.
Next week there is a film screening at Birnam Arts for “Meet the Buchanans” to celebrate the inauguration of Mike Buchanan, the first Buchanan clan chief in 300 years. We are assembling information about local Buchanans for a display at the event on Thursday the 18th of September at 6:30pm.
