In five short videos Drs Will Wyeth, Coralie Mills and Hamish Darrah look at the project funded by both the Castle Studies Trust and Historic Environment Scotland to date a timber found at Old Wick Castle, Caithness, and in turn help us understand better this little understood castle.
In the first video Dr Will Wyeth gives the background to the project:
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In the second video Hamish Darrah gives more detail on the wood they found
While in the third one, Coralie Mills looks at how they dated the timber
In video four, Will looks at what the dating of the timber means:
Before summing up in video five about what the significance of the research is.