Our Events
Beorgs of Housetter Walk
August 31st, 11am
Collafirth Pier, Housetter
Join us for a circular walk that will take in some rare sites including some that do not see a lot of visitors and are newly catalogued. From this you should gain an appreciation for the diversity of prehistoric architecture and chosen site location. As some of them defy easy explanation, we will take time to explore the possible reasons why the location was chosen and how it may have been used. This is a moderate to challenging walk. For more information contact us here.
Local Events
Broon water, white water, strippit water: uproar in Lerwick Town Council, 1932-1936
August 15th 7-8:30pm
Shetland Museum and Archives
Join our archivist Brian Smith as he uncovers the political unrest caused by the most unlikely of sources! One day in 1932 a science teacher at the Anderson Institute presided over a routine experiment in his class. The results turned politics in Lerwick upside down for four years. Labour councillors (the ‘White Water’ group) and the so-called Ratepayers’ Association (‘Brown Water’) were at each others’ throats on the subject. ‘Strippit Water’ was a crazy compromise for a while! The Sandy Loch water controversy is forgotten now, but in the early thirties it was all that Lerwegians could think about. This is a charged event, more information here.
Ostentatious or Monumental?
The evolution of the wheelhouse in Shetland
Droning on about climate change: erosion and Shetland’s coastal archaeology
Mainland Events
Discovering Pictish art & symbol stones at Inveraven Church, Ballindalloch
Thursday 01 August 2024 - Thursday 29 August 2024
Inveraven Church, Ballindalloch, AB37 9BA
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Join the Glenlivet & Inveravon Heritage and Dark Sky Ranger for an introduction to the Picts, their art and symbol stones on 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 August. Examine the intricate carvings on the four stones discovered in the churchyard of Inveraven, which has been a site of spiritual practice and pilgrimage for centuries. This tour will provide an overview to Pictish art and culture and demonstrate how the Picts contributed to the founding of modern Scotland. For more information on this event visit here.
Just for Laughs
Terminology
Tøfakuddie
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...or Tøvakudda or Tevakudda or many other variations, is 'a part of the rocky ebb where webs of cloth were fastened to be exposed to the action of the waves as a means of fulling or thickening the cloth.' For more on the etymology, and origin of the above quote, visit here.