Facts & Figures

Continuing on the theme of ruined buildings in the mountains, see blog entry for May 2013, Our director Douglas Campbell recently came across some ruined stone-wall bivouacs at the back of Ben Macdui in the Cairngorms which he believes may date back to the early 1940’s when the 52nd Lowland Division of the British Army was undergoing their mountain warfare training in this area. The ‘Mountaineers’ were formed and specially…

A recent project we’ve been working on involved an intensive search for montane scrub species on the hills above upper Glen Affric. The area has not previously been surveyed in this way, and so it has been interesting to get the first chance to look at the site in depth. It has been a bit of an epic trying to work systematically across the remote and rocky corries of A’…

Many people who spend a lot of time in the hills wonder what it was like for the folk who lived and worked in them in centuries gone by. We often come across sheilings in the high hills in the Highlands, where folk brought their cattle in the summer to graze extensively on the new growth on the hill whilst their in-bye land was being cropped. The sheilings in what…