What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

We had a busy weekend starting with the Crannog Young Archaeologists' Club paying us a visit up at our excavation site in Dunkeld. The group had a wonderful time looking at what we had uncovered and learning about the history of the site. The group took part in some...

What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

Our summer of excavations continues on this week. Our Archaeology and History Club have been hard at work uncovering walls at the site and starting to reveal some of it's interesting history. Due to the location of the site, there has been lots of fieldstone to remove...

What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

This week has been very busy. Monday had our usual memories group; this week they were looking at school photographs. On Monday we also had some exciting updates to our upcoming escape room project, the team organising the puzzles popped up to see us and plan what...

What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

In true Scottish summer style, we have had a weird and wonderful week of weather in Dunkeld. From hailstones and thunder to glorious sunshine we've seen it all this week. Lucky for us we have plenty to do safely inside the archive here at The Cross.Monday Memories...

What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

And just like that, another week has passed! We started as we always do with a visit from Monday Memories, this week the group had a look through newspaper clippings from the 1990s and early 2000s from the local area. This jogged lots of memories and even informed...

What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

Congrats to Robyn, our new tour guide, who completed her first tour on Wednesday. Robyn is just about to graduate from her history degree, and we are very excited to work with her. We have a few more tour guides joining us for the summer season, and we are very much...

What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

We have been busy this week with lots of visitors to the archive. We started the week with Monday Memories coming in for a good ol' chat and a look through some of our photograph albums. We have been busy planning our summer lunch for the group, this will be held in...

What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

We have had a varied and exciting week in the archive! We began with Monday Memories, but this week were quizzing the group on their knowledge of local houses and businesses which are a part of our National Lottery Heritage funded project exploring the history of 12...

What we have done this week…

What we have done this week…

We held our first Living History event of 2026 last weekend. The Sir Arthur Erskine Regiment joined us in Stanley Hill Park for a weekend of 17th Century Soldier reenactment. This included everything from a reenactment camp to guided tours of the village.  Have a look...