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2008
Caithness Field Club Summer Programme 2008
Some Highlights of Natural History in 2007 (by Mary Legg, and Ken Butler)
Field Club Activities in 2007 (by Marion Owen)
A Survey of Aspens on Dunnet Head (by David Glass)
The Congash Symbol Stones (by Geoff Leet)
A Circular Tour of Old Wick (by
Eleanor Leishman)
Beware of Lyme Disease (by NHS Direct)
Caithness Plant is new to Science (by Ken Butler)
Hetty Munro’s War Diaries (by
Elizabeth Rintoul)
Biodiversity and Fungi Conservation (by David Savage)
Two Winter Solstice Observations (by Geoff Leet)
CAT Chronicle (by Gordon MacLachlan)
Sir Patrick Sinclair of Lybster (1736 – 1820); the Army Years (by Dr
George Reeves)
The Juniper Survey Project 2007 (by Myra Wilson and Ken Butler)
2007 - Under
Construction
Caithness Field Club Summer Programme
2007
Some Highlights of Natural History in 2006 (by Mary Legg, Donald Omand and
Ken Butler)
Field Club Activities in 2006 (by Marion Owen)
Raising the Wreck of SS Great Britain (by George Watson and Geoff Leet)
GPS for FieldClubbers (by Ken Butler)
A Walk at Strathy and Baligill (by Ken Butler)
Telfords Mill Lade at Wick (by Jenny Bruce)
Spoked Wheel Stones (by Geoff Leet)
The Leodebeste Rocky Outcrop (by Ken Butler)
Hetty Munro’s War Diaries (by Elizabeth Rintoul)
Grassland Fungi in Caithness (by David Savage)
Birnie and the Early Bishopric of Moray (by Ian Keillar)
The Rodney Stone (by Ian Keillar)
The Juniper Survey Project 2006 (by Myra Wilson and Ken Butler)
2006 -
Under Construction
Jack Saxon 1924 – 2005 An Obituary
Hetty Munro’s War Diaries
(by Elizabeth Rintoul)
Two in a Boat (by Geoff Leet)
Skinnet Chapel and the Origins of Halkirk Parish (by George Watson)
Tree Counting at Badryrie (by Ken Butler)
The Distribution of the Water Vole in Caithness (by E Fraser
D Glass and S Hogg) Published Biodiversity Pages
The Great Caithness Meteorite? (by U Keith Gerry)
Report on Caithness Archaeological Trust (by Gordon McLachlan)
A Carved “Celtic” Head (by Les Myatt)
Thurso “Spoked Wheels” Stone (by Geoff Leet)
A Juniper Survey Project (by Ken Butler and Myra Wilson)
A Geological Tour of the North (by Jack Saxon)
2005
Caithness Field Club Summer Programme 2005
Some Highlights of Natural History in 2004 (by Mary Legg, Donald Omand and Ken
Butler)
Field Club Activities in 2004 (by Marion Owen)
A Surprising Co-incidence and an Apology
(by Ken Butler)
The Caithness Secret Army in World War II (by Geoff Leet)
201 BN News (by Geoff Leet)
More Big Cats (by Geoff Leet)
The Fungi in Dunnet Forest (by David Savage)
The Pilkington Family in Caithness (by Ken Melhuish)
Caithness Cetaceans (by Marina Swanson)
Historical Letter No 1 (by George Watson)
Hetty Munro's War Diaries (by Elizabeth Rintoul)
A Letter from Robert Burns to Sir John Sinclair (by L.J. Myatt)
A Botanical Local Change Project (by Ken Butler)
News of Caithness Archaeological Trust (by Gordon McLachlan)
Highland Archaeology Week October 2005
The John o' Groats Legend: Fact or Fiction? (by George Watson)
Snippets and Stories about The Royal Hotel, Thurso (by James M Wilson)
2004
Editorial
Club Officers
Summer
Programme 2004
Some Highlights of Natural History
in 2003
Field Club
Activities in 2003
Achavanich - A Re-assessment
The LEADER + Programme
Mey Personified
A Brief History of Foyers
Ruthwell Cross
Excavated Finds and Treasure Trove in Scotland
The Huna Vampire
Current Biological Recording Schemes
Some Rare Caithness Bees
A New Fossil Fish
Hetty Munro's War Diaries
Insurance and
Safety Changes
General Rules for
Conduct on Outings
Cumulative Contents of Caithness Field Club Bulletins 47
2003
Editorial
Club Officers 2002 - 2003
Summer Programme 2003
Birds and Plants in 2002
Field Club Activities in 2002
Gordon C Wilson
1935-2002 An Obituary
Castle Varrich At Tongue
A Cave Below Castle Varrich
Early History Of Strathnaver
A Classic Walk
A Trip to Latheron & Forse Early Settlement
Badryrie Wood - 18 Years on
Dale House - A
History
Achanarras - A Window on the Glorious
Devonian
Excavations at Everley, Tofts,
Freswick 2002:
some initial thoughts
Current
Biological Recording Schemes
Progress with Biodiversity
The Pennyland Mausoleum at Victoria
Walk, Thurso
Fast Work
2002
Editorial
Constitution
Slips That Pass In The Night
Caithness Field Club Programme Summer 2002
An Account of Field Club Activities 2001
Biological Recording in Caithness
A Proposed Caithness Archaeological Trust
Early Flying In The North Of Scotland
WW2 Defences in Caithness - Part 2, Air Defences
Local Caithness Bird Names
Ackergill Lifeboat (1877 ‑ 1932)
A preliminary report on the 1st season of excavations at Everley, Freswick,
Caithness
A Farm Flitting in 1949
2001
Editorial
An Account of Field Club
Activities 2000
The
Story of St John's Loch, Told and Re-Told
A New Fossil
Discovery At Achanarras Quarry
The Stratifigraphic Position of the Old Red Sandstone of Sandside Bay
Bits about
Building
A Wedding at Skibo
Huna Lifeboat
(1877-1930)
WW2
Defences in Caithness
Dunnet Parish Church
Monuments and
Water: A re-interpretation of the Grey cairns of Camster, Caithness
Heart Problem
The History of Ackergill Tower
Caithness Tales
2000
Editorial
Club Officers 1999-2000
2000 Summer Programme
Club Activities 1999
Agnathan from Spittal Quarry
Twites Wintering in Caithness
Rockets from the North Shore
Skelpick and Rhifail
Life-saving at Wick
Chapel & Graveyard at Oldhall, Watten
Coastal Landmarks
Building the John O’Groats Mill in 1901
Forests in the New Millennium
How Did it All Begin?
Dummy Airfield at Thrumster
Field Club’s First Excursion, 17 May 1902
Sinclair Clan Gathering
1999
Index 93 - 98
Account of Field club Activities 1998
Birds seen Burnside, Scrabster
Castle Sinclair and Girnigoe & the Origins of the Clan Sinclair
Early Steamship Voyages in the North
Harrow Pavement Works
Isabella Fortuna
Club Officers & Editorial
Field Club Publications
Radar in the Fleet Air Arm
Summer Programme
The Importance of Caithness Stone
The Shape of Churches
1998
Club Officers for 1997/8
Editorial
Letters to the Editor
1998 Summer
Programme
Account of Field
Club Activities 1997
The Devonian
Fishes of Canowindra
Cannon Battery at
Victoria Walk
A Second Glance
at Brims Castle
Murdo Rivach's
Grave
Addendum to Murdo
Rivach Story
A Rediscovered
Church
Defence of
Britain's Project
The Gauge of
Slate Quarry Track-Ways
A Bill of
Material for Barn at Standstill Farm
Pattern
Recognition
Field Club
Publications
1997
Concentric Earthworks
Disaster Threatens at Seven Miles Up
Falkirk Tartan
Extracts from the Memoirs of Hetty Munro
Letters to the Editor
Royal national Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen
No Accounting For Animals
1997 Club Officers & Editorial
Account of Club Outings 1996
Queen Aud Sails From Caithness
Red Deer At Langwell
Robert Dick's Collection of Fossils
Summer Programme 1997
A Tacksman At Borlum
1996
Account of Field Club Activities 1995
Another Perspective on the Sutherland Clearances
Artillery Batteries Castletown and Mey
Bee Boles
Caithnessians V Rudolph Hess
Eurasian Otter
Ham Harbour
The Atlantic Salmon Life Cycle
Mary-Ann's Cottage
The Shielings Summer Camps
Wearing the Arsaidh
How Shell Tankers Were Named
Watten Mills
1995
Malthus, Ireland & Highland Clearances
Natura 2000
A Search For Uranium In Caithness
Sinking of the Bismarck
Thoughts On Clan Tartans
1994
Memories Of Halkirk From 1920
The Construction Of An Early Black House
A Fantastic Find Of Devonian Fishes At Canowindra
A Bottle-Nosed Dolphin In Thurso Bay
The Geology & Paleontology Of the Shore Section Between Thurso & Scrabster
A Remarkable Glacial Pavement
Jurassic Park In Mongolia
An Elizabethan Will
The Highland Scots Become Interested In
Railways
Sweat Houses In North America
Recent Publications
The Orkney Science Festival - 11 - 14
September 1993
1993
Editorial
Chairman's Address
Bumping Into The Americas
Burnt Mounds And Sweathouses
Ships V Brochs
Cromwellian Soldiers In Cannesbay 1652 -
1655
The Seven Men Of Knoydart
Cyclic Sedimentary Structures -
North Sutherland
Westside Croft
1992
Editorial
AGM 1992 Chairman's Address
The Clan Gunn Heritage Museum - Zeno
Wintering Snow Buntings In
Caithness
Holidays In Slickly
Whale Bone Cruckframe At Dunnet
Stroma: The Island That Died
Winds Of Change
Holding A Pirate's Ball
1991
Editorial
Hang the Kaiser
AGM Chairman's Address
Cashmere Goats - A Venture For The
Highlands
The Blackbird
The Passage
Grave Cemeteries Of County Meath
The Baligill Outlier
The Old Red Sandstone Of
Shetland
Summer Programme 1991
March
1990
Editorial
Mammals Of the Northern
Highlands
Some Folklore About Plants
and Flowers
Little Boy Blue
The Wick Charter
The Tale Of The Puma
A Model Doocot
Some Census Sidelights On
Victorian Caithness - Part Two
April
1989
Editorial
Old Rural Caithness Through Writers' Eyes
The Bouilag Four-Poster
Some Census Sidelights On Mid Nineteenth
Century Caithness
Part 1 : Flitting Farmers and Settled Fisher Folk
Freswick House
The Village Of Captains
October 1988
Winter Programme
Thurso East Icehouse
A Plea For Industrial Archaeology
Sheep Saga - The North Ronaldsays
Mid
Nineteenth Century Army Pensioners
In The North Of Scotland
April 1988
Editorial
A Short History Of The Field Club
Dunnet Bay SSSI Historical and Present Day
Ecology - Part Two
The Psalm Tune "Caithness"
The Education Of A Minister In the Late 18th
Century
A Brief Account Of Education In the
Parish Of Reay Prior To 1870
Dounreay Castle
The Sandside Kiln Barn
The Orcadian Middle Old Red
Sandstone
October 1987
Chairman's Report and Programme
Archaeology Developments
Land Use & Vegetation
Early Shopping In Scotland
Brubster Places
Hanging About The Highlands
April 1987
Editorial
Rules And
Constitution
Jottings From A
Factor's Scrap Book
The Voyage Of the
Iris To Norway
St Drostan In Caithness
Some
Results From Bird-Ringing In N. E. Caithness
Tree
Planting In Caithness
October 1986
Editorial
Prison Life In Inverness Between 1700 And 1720
Dunnet Bay SSSI - Historical
and Present Day Ecology
Caithness Lighthouses
Roads and Tracks
Through Local History - Part 3: Tracks, Fords and Chapels
April 1986
Editorial
Roads And Tracks Through History -
Part Two - Unrecorded Ways
Brief History Of Brubster
Brubster; Pre-Improvements
Agriculture
Wartime Boyhood In Wick
October 1985
Editorial
ROADS AND TRACKS THROUGH LOCAL
HISTORY Part 1 - Historical Roads
THE
MULTIPLE STONE ROWS OF CAITHNESS AND SUTHERLAND 4. Their Purpose
Tarradale Weekend
Canisbay Parish Survey 1984
Air Operations From RAF Wick During World
War 2 Part Three December 1941 - January 1943
Freswick Links, Caithness survey 1984
Some Incidents Involving Wick and
Ackergill Lifeboats
April 1985
Editorial
Caithness Geological Notes
A Setting Of Stone Rows,
Tormsdale, Caithness
The Badryrie Project
Badryrie - An abandoned Crofting
Community In Latheron
Sailing Directions For the
North Coast
October 1984
The Black Rat's Home in Roman Britain
Caithness Orchids
Some Discoveries in a Mound in Lythmore
Do We Persecute Foxes Unfairly?
The Special Touch of Caithness
Wrecks of the Pentland Firth
April 1984
Editorial & Letter To
Editor
An Early Royal
Visit To Thurso
NOTES
TAKEN FROM THE ACCOUNT BOOKS AND THE PUNISHMENT BOOKS
FOR THE THURSO COMBINATION POORHOUSE
Impressions Of Eilean Na Ron
Wrecks Of
The Pentland Firth 1918 - 1933
Freswick Links
Neil Gunn and
Dunbeath
The Scottish
Burgh Survey
Family Histories
The Sheep Eaters
October 1983
SIR JOHN GUNN, THE CARDIFF BUSINESS ENTREPRENEUR FROM
CAITHNESS
NOTES ON THREE NINETEENTH CENTURY CAITHNESS DOVECOTES
C0ALS TO NEWCASTLE?
JAMES
INNES OF CAPE FEAR
WRECKS OF THE PENTLAND
FIRTH 1890 TO 1917
April 1983
10 YEARS 1973-1983
BURIAL GR0UNDS OF
CAITHNESS AND SUTHERLAND
THE MULTIPLE STONE ROWS OF
CAITHNESS AND SUTHERLAND
3. Their Description II
THE JURASSIC BOULDER BEDS OF
EAST SUTHERLAND
CHRISTIAN COUPER
AIR 0PERATIONS
FROM R.A.F. WICK DURING WORLD WAR II
PART TWO: JANUARY 1941 - DECEMBER 1941
REAY SCULPTURED STONES
AN
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SEA BATTLE IN THE KYLE OF TONGUE
WRECKS OF
THE PENTLAND FIRTH
October 1982
The Moon And The Northern Highlands
Some Fungi Of
Dunnet Forest
Visitors
Book Huna Inn 1879
THE ORIGIN
OF SPECIES, THE PUNCTUATION THEORY, AND THEIR APPLICABILITY
TO
THE FOSSIL RECORD IN CAITHNESS
Grain Kiln Floors
Air
Operations From RAF Wick During World War Two - Part One September 1939
- December 1940
A
Note for the Record - A Coin Found At Strathnaver
Deciduous Trees In Caithness
April 1982
The Multiple Stone Rows Of Caithness & Sutherland
Two Tales of the Caithness Bishops
Viscount Thurso of Ulbster (Sir Archibald Sinclair)
Whaligoe
October 1981
General The Lord Horne of Stirkoke - Caithness's Greatest General
Inspector of Nuisances
A Caithness School in the Early Nineteenth Century
Some Caithness Grasses
April 1981
Botany of Scrabster Braes
Extracts From the Inspector Of Nuisances
Markets In Caithness In The Old Days
The Motor Bus In Caithness
Research Into Family History
Some Common Caithness Toadstools And Their Uses
October 1980
Andrew Geddes Bain, Road Engineer, Explorer and Geologist
Broubster And District Educational Records
Caithness Courier 1866
Dirlot Castle - The
Cheynes, Gunns, Sutherlands and Mackays
Excavation Reports Relating To Caithness
Invertebrates and the Pollution of rivers
More Extracts From The Inspector of Nuisances, Thurso
Preserving Our Geological Sites
Thomas Telford's Parliamentary Churches
April 1980
Buttercups of Caithness
Chairman's Remarks and Bird Report
Historic Castles of the North - The Sinclairs of Keiss
Multiple Stone Rows of Caithness and Sutherland
Summer Programme 1980
Thurso Police Extracts 1873
October
1979
Editorial
OF SCHIPPES AND BUSCHES
Old Letter of November 1799
THE CAITHNESS FLAGSTONE
INDUSTRY
HISTORIC CASTLES AND FAMILIES OF THE NORTH
10. The Castle of Mey - The Sinclairs of Mey, later Earls of Caithness
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES AT THURSO RIVER
HARBOUR 1922
April 1979
Editorial
Vegetation Of the Isle Of Stroma
The Radioactive
Fishes Of The North Of Scotland
Some Notes On The History Of the
Rabbit In the North
Bird Movements Through
Caithness and North East Sutherland
HISTORIC CASTLES AND FAMILIES OF THE NORTH
9 . Dunbeath Castle - The Sutherlands & Sinclairs of Dunbeath
THE DISCQVERY OF
HUMAN REMAINS AT CLARDON HAVEN, CAITHNESS
October 1978
Editorial, Programme
Ardvreck Castle - The MacNicols and Macleods
of Assynt
THE PROSPECTS FOR BEEKEEPING IN
CAITHNESS
NOTES ON F0UR CAITHNESS
DOOCOTS
THE WILD PLANTS OF THURSO RIVERSIDE
DE SITU ALBANIE
April
1978
Editorial
Girnigoe Castle - The First to
Sixth Earls of Caithness
THE CROFTER' S COMMISSION 1884
THE COGHILLS OF
COGHILL The only Caithness Landholders "of that Ilk"
EXCAVATIONS AT CLOW CHAPEL, WATTEN
A
BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN CAITHNESS AND ORKNEY
THE GLACIAL TILLS OF CAITHNESS
CAITHNESS MONUMENTS
3. Sir George Sinclair, Fountain
October 1977
Editorial
HISTORIC CASTLES AND FAMILIES OF THE NORTH
6. Forse Castle - The Sutherlands of Forse
PARLIAMO
THIRSA
HYBRIDS IN THE CAITHNESS FLORA
BALIGILL REVISITED
A NOTE ON LYBSTER VILLAGE
CNOC NA MARANAICH -
A Megalithic Summer Solstice Observatory
SURVEY OF A STONE SETTING AT CNOC AN LIATH-BHAID
STRATH BRORA
THE BEWITCHED CAITHNESS CROFT
A Weird Mystery of Last Century
Captain Slater's Monument on Holborn Head
April 1977
Ackergill Tower - The Keiths and Dunbars of Hempriggs
The Short Career Of
Pirate John Gow
BADRYRIE
- An abandoned crofting community in Latheron
Life On
A Caithness Farm In 1862
BADGERS -
A Tentative Survey
An Unrecorded Stone At
Broughwhin
Chapel And Burial
Ground At ch'na H-uai Kinbrace
THE ARCHAEOLOGY, EXCAVATION AND
DIGGING OF THE SCOTTISH CHAMBERED TOMBS
Two Possible Prehistoric Quarries in Caithness
Caithness
Monuments - Harold's Tower
October 1976
Declaration Of Arbroath
Oldwick & Berriedale Castles
Cheynes, Sutherlands of Duffus and the Oliphants
Some Recent Plant Records
April 1976
Dunrobin Castle - Earls and Dukes of Sutherland
Caithness Folklore And Customs
Which Way Did the Great Glen Fault Move
Possible Monastery at Murkle
Three Caithness Doocots
October 1975
Editorial. AGM,
Notes, Winter Programme
Castles Gunn and Halberry - The Gunns
TWO NEW CASTLE SITES
IN CAITHNESS?
THE EARLY
ECCLESIASTICAL REMAINS OF WICK PARISH
TALES OF A
CAITHNESS HARBOUR
TRADITIONAL
KNITTING PATTERNS
THE RAISED SHORELINES
OF CAITHNESS
FIELD EXPOSURE ON THE A9
THE CONSERVATION OF WILD
CREATURES AND WILD PLANTS ACT, 1975
April 1975
Editorial & Notes
Bucholie as
Lambaborg
Deep
Weathering of Rock in Caithness
The Early
Ecclesiastical Remains Of Halkirk Parish
In Search
Of The Real Old Mountain Dew
Hunting
For Caithness Mosses And Liverworts
The Distribution Of Freshwater Fish In the British Isles
With Particular Reference To Caithness
October 1974
Sea Battle Off Raudabjorg Caithness
Between Earl Thorfinn And Earl
Rognvald
The Orkneyinga Saga
Caithness Fern Survey
Oil Pollution
Caithness Historical Notes 1750 - 1900
April 1974
The Evolution of the Vegetation of Northern Scotland
Northern Scotland Since the Ice Age - Chart
Rights of Way
Work Horses - A Look Back
Diverse Dandelions
October 1973
St. Coombs Chapel
Botanical Records
Annual Dinner
Other Field Clubs
Boulder Clay of Caithness
Elphin Weekend
Medieval Urban Archaeology
Nature Notes
See North, See South
Survey of an Unrecorded Stone Setting Near Broubster
Shells
Excavations at Bishop's Castle, Scrabster
April 1973
Progress At St Coombs
The Winter Programme
Sites of Old Horse Mills
Gossip about Birds
Small Blue Butterfly
Fern Survey
Botanists at a Caithness Meeting
The Council for Nature
A Stone Circle
County Recorders
Early Christian Chapel Sites
Churchyard Inscriptions
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