High Pasture Cave — Ritual, Identity and Memory in the Iron Age of Skye

Steve Birch

Victoria Hall, Cromarty

The Society’s next meeting will be on Tuesday 15th October at 7.30 pm, in the Victoria Hall. We hope to see you there.

Archaeologist Steve Birch was a Site Director of the Community Dig Team who uncovered the archaeology of the former Royal Burgh of Medieval Cromarty during 2013-16. Since then he has been involved in digs all over the Highlands, and recently in the investigation of the High Pasture Cave in Skye. This is a site on the edge of a settlement which shows signs of activity from Neolithic times, the Bronze Age and Early to Middle Scottish Iron Age.

Steve will be sharing some of his team’s discoveries with us in advance of his book about the dig,to be published next February by Oxbow Books.

The meeting will be followed by refreshments. As always the meeting is free to members, visitors £5, and the annual membership fee for meetings from October to April is only £15.

Cromarty History Society now meets on the third Tuesday of each month, September‐April (except for variations this year in November and January — please see the programme) and occasionally during the summer