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Starts: 09:00
Ends: 18:00
Insch, Aberdeenshire. Depart from Inverness
Colin Miller has offered us an opportunity to visit the Bailies of Bennachie project near Insch, Aberdeenshire. The visit will be towards the end of this year’s Bede House excavation and is timed so that we can travel by public transport. Colin has looked at all the ‘unexpected’ obstacles (rail disruption) and the distance and suggests we could travel by train avoiding the problems but still see the best of the site. We would depart Inverness 09.01 arrive Insch at 10.48 and take taxis to the site from the station and returning from Insch at 16.01arriving Inverness 17.49. Bring your own lunch, snacks and suitable walking gear, midge cream, sun lotion, wet weather gear.
If you are interested in joining us PLEASE let me know so that I can arrange the tickets (rail group tickets for 10 or more) and taxis as soon as possible. The alternative would be to arrange a group of shared (full) cars to travel from Inverness to Insch. I am happy to coordinate a car convoy if that is the favoured option.
3 questions.
Would you like to come on the trip?
Would you like to travel by train? OR
Would you like to travel by car?
Email me at annecoombs1@gmail.com
Additional info about the excavation from Colin
The dig is a Bailies of Bennachie project, continuing work
which started in summer 2018, and located at the foot of
Bennachie on Pittodrie Estate. There are two adjacent sites:
(1) The Bede House -- a 17th-century almshouse of which
substantial footings survive but which were almost totally
obscured until 2018; and (2) a settlement comprising several
structures, ancient enclosures and trackway, and a probable
millpond -- all largely obscured by vegetation and never
recorded on OS mapping. In 2019 we will be concentrating on
area (2), but the Bede House can also be viewed. Access is a
half-hour's walk from the nearest public road. The usual
precautions about rough terrain and ticks apply.