Welcome to Yarrows Heritage
We are a small community charity based in an area of spectacular archaeology and heritage just south of Wick.
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We own a railway station and a community woodland, and we are involved in working with the local community to explore, understand and excavate their heritage, recent and pre-historic.
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There's more about who we are, what we do, and our history on the About page.
Our tenth season of excavation at the Swartigill Iron age excavation finished on 5th September. It proved to be another productive dig, with some spectacular finds turning up, and an increasing understanding of the complex structures that have emerged over the years. Apart from the trusty ORCA team, led by Rick Barton, there were about 30 volunteers who also took part, helping out for a day or so, to some helping out for the whole three weeks. The maximum daily head count was 20, which means there have been lots of local volunteers who have had a great excavation experience. Thanks to all who came and contributed, without you we couldn't have done this.
Now comes the report writing, the post-excavation analysis of the finds, and a long hard think about what happens next to the site. To go back or to close it down....??
We are grateful to our funders - Lybster & Tannach Fund & the Camster Foundation Scotland Fund - whose financial support made it all happen.
Last summer we had a calendar of events at Thrumster Station every second Sunday,
with a variety of different activities and talks.
We hope to do provide a similar series of meetings again next summer.
Keep an eye on this website next Spring
for more information.
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