“ON the NC500, what do you see? Heather, glens, hills and sea? Actually, Clearances Country!”
The banned tourist guide mapping Highland Clearances across Scotland“I was looking at my map of where the Clearances took place, and there is a rapid overlap of these.
He went on: “It is important to show that in fact many of the areas that are so-called wild land were once used by people for living.Below and with Gibson’s help, The National has pulled together some of the best spots on the NC500 for people looking to learn about the shameful period in Scottish history.Around 30 miles west of Thurso, the river Naver meets the ocean at Torrisdale Bay. It was here in 1814 that, Gibson says, the “most notorious Clearances in the Highlands were enacted”.
In 1816, Sellar was tried on charges including culpable homicide after he and his men burnt down one residence with someone still inside, according to the National Records of Scotland. Though he was acquitted in court, public opinion was far less kind. The museum is also the starting point of the Strathnaver Trail, which “links and interprets 29 archaeological sites” including the remains of Neolithic horned chamber cairns, Bronze Age cairns and hut circles, Iron Age brochs, Pictish carved stones and pre-Clearance townships.About 14 miles south of Bettyhill are the ruins of Rosal, one of the largest of the Strathnaver villages to be cleared by Sellar and his men.
The village, which was home to around 13 families, was excavated during the 1960s and artefacts are to be found in Strathnaver Museum.On the A9 about six miles north-east of Helmsdale, Badbea is a village with a difference. Instead of seeing its inhabitants brutally cleared out, Badbea is an example of the type of place where people were forced to settle afterwards.
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