The upland rural landscape of Eastern Perthshire that we know today is the result of over six thousand years of people settling, farming and improving the landscape around them. The physical traces of past human activity survive all around us and through archaeology, it is possible to decipher these remains and reveal some of their […]

The upland rural landscape of Eastern Perthshire that we know today is the result of over six thousand years of people settling, farming and improving the landscape around them. The physical traces of past human activity survive all around us and through archaeology, it is possible to decipher these remains and reveal some of their […]

After a four month campaign crowdsourcing ideas for 100 Objects that tell the story of the Cateran Trail across history and into the present day, this Exhibition and accompanying booklet will showcase the final list of objects which has chosen by a Community Panel. The Exhibition will include some of the most iconic objects associated […]

Join PKHT Outreach Officer Gavin Lindsay for a visit to the well-defended fort on top of Barry Hill, looking at its construction and redevelopment over a number of periods.  Find out about the changing use of the hill as well as myths which have developed linking the fort to Arthurian legend. Grade of walk: 2 […]

In this talk, landscape historian Christopher Dingwall will be sharing insights into the history, heritage and archaeology of the Cateran Trail revealed through his study of old maps of the area. Free. Booking essential via this eventbrite link.    

A network of military roads, sometimes called General Wade’s Military Roads, was constructed in the Scottish Highlands during the middle part of the 18th century as part of an attempt by the British Government to bring order to a part of the country which had risen up in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. In this […]

Join PKHT Outreach Officer Gavin Lindsay for a visit to the well-defended fort on top of Barry Hill, looking at its construction and redevelopment over a number of periods.  Find out about the changing use of the hill as well as myths which have developed linking the fort to Arthurian legend. Grade of walk: 2 […]

Hillforts are one of the most prominent types of prehistoric monument seen across many parts of Scotland. In this talk, Strat, a national landscape historian with wide-ranging experience and knowledge of monuments and landscapes throughout Scotland dating from early prehistory to the present day, will be sharing some special insights into the Iron Age Fort […]

Follow in the footsteps of Major William Caulfield as PKHT Outreach Officer Gavin Lindsay leads this march along the line of the military road between Lornty Bridge and Bridge of Cally. Come along to find out more about General Wade’s successor, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 and the network of roads and bridges constructed in […]