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A beautiful day with just a few midges, many of the usual
team were in Fort William doing country dancing, so the only
explorers were: Amy Mulhern, Charlene, David John, James,
Margaret, Robbie and Robert plus Jean.
The expedition started in the central part of Acharacle Church
Yard where we were lucky enough to be joined by John Cameron
who explained almost all of the graves and gave us plenty
of local history. Many of the inscriptions on the stones were
very indistinct and John showed the explorers how to use a
sheet of paper and a soft pencil to make a clear tracing.
They managed some fine impressions of some stones which were
impossible to read in any other way. They then moved round
the churchyard taking impressions of patterns from some of
the headstones.
We then left the churchyard and walked to the Millennium Wood
where the explorers had a chance to look at the trees and
the hill and the rhododendrons which need cutting. Most of
them walked down through the rhododendrons to the school while
Jean, John James and Robert went back by road.
Everyone then got in the cars and drove to the hall and then
walked down to Alan MacNaughton's croft. We opened the gate
and, avoiding the horse, walked up to the old wall which used
to be the boundary between east and west Acharacle. This is
the oldest wall in Acharacle and could have been there for
300 years.
Most of the group had to attend the Kinlochmoidart Show in
the afternoon so we dispersed quickly without doing any pictures
except for the tracings made in the churchyard.
John
Dye
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