One of Scotland’s foremost contemporary textile artists, Deirdre Nelson is artist in residence for the Cateran’s Common Wealth ‘Common Ground’ project. From Spring to summer 2017, she’ll be working with schools and community groups around the Trail to design and make new textiles inspired by new aerial photography and place name research. One of Deirdre’s […]

In this talk, Paul will share some of the 15,000 images taken between 1927 and 1993 from the business of D. Wilson Laing Photographers, Blairgowrie which offer a unique record of life in Eastern Perthshire from the 1850s to the present day. Free. Booking essential via this eventbrite link.

One of Scotland’s foremost contemporary textile artists, Deirdre Nelson is artist in residence for the Cateran’s Common Wealth ‘Common Ground’ project. From Spring to summer 2017, she’ll be working with schools and community groups around the Trail to design and make new textiles inspired by new aerial photography and place name research. One of Deirdre’s […]

The ancient landscape of Glenshee contains prehistoric monuments, Pictish longhouses and much more recent fermtouns and military roads – come and explore the excavations of the Glenshee Archaeology Project and the fascinating landscape around Lair with Gavin Lindsay of Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust. Grade of walk: 2 (Moderate) Cost: Free Booking: pre-booking essential, see […]

The Cateran Trail has some great archaeological sites, and the rarest are the so-called ‘Pitcarmick’ type buildings: stone/turf and timber longhouses of the early medieval period (late first millennium AD). They were first identified in the uplands of north-east Perthshire in the late 1980’s but to date only two sites have been excavated, at Pitcarmick […]

The Story Box will transform a decommissioned red telephone box into a community-led audio art installation in Alyth Town Square, which captures oral histories of the people of Alyth. In a similar way to Dr Who’s ‘Tardis’, the iconic red telephone box will allow the user to hear stories from four different eras, including the […]

One of Scotland’s foremost contemporary textile artists, Deirdre Nelson is artist in residence for the Cateran’s Common Wealth ‘Common Ground’ project. From Spring to summer 2017, she’ll be working with schools and community groups around the Trail to design and make new textiles inspired by new aerial photography and place name research. One of Deirdre’s […]

Guided Walk led by Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust. The fermtoun at Easter Bleaton is an exceptionally well preserved example of a medieval farming settlement. Join PKHT Outreach Officer Gavin Lindsay to explore the extensive remains and find out more about early farming life in Eastern Perthshire. Grade of walk: 2 (Moderate [c.1.5km]) Cost: Free […]

One of Scotland’s foremost contemporary textile artists, Deirdre Nelson is artist in residence for the Cateran’s Common Wealth ‘Common Ground’ project. From Spring to summer 2017, she’ll be working with schools and community groups around the Trail to design and make new textiles inspired by new aerial photography and place name research. One of Deirdre’s […]

Inspired by Neil MacGregor’s History of the World in 100 objects, this project invites the people who live and work around the Cateran Trail and those who visit, to propose people, places and landscapes and objects associated with them, that they believe tell an important part of the story of this part of Scotland across […]