Landscaper in Dunbeath

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Dunbeath is a town in south-east Caithness, Scotland on the A9 road. It was the native home of Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973), writer of The Silver Darlings, Highland River and so on, a lot of whose novels are set in Dunbeath as well as its Strath. Dunbeath has an extremely rich historical landscape, the site of numerous Iron Age brochs and a very early medieval monastic site (see Alex Morrison’s archaeological survey, “Dunbeath: A Cultural Landscape”.) Of Dunbeath’s landscape, Gunn created: “These tiny straths, like the Strath of Dunbeath, have this intimate elegance. In boyhood we are familiar with every square backyard of it. We incorporate it physically and our memories hold it. Birches, hazel trees for nutting, swimming pools with trout and also an occasionally visible salmon, river-flats with the wind on the bracken and vanishing rabbit scuts, a wide range of wild blossom and also small bird life, the skyrocketing hawk, the unexpected roe, the old graveyard, thoughts of the people who when lived much inland in straths and hollows, the past and today held in a moment of day-dream.” (‘My Little Britain’, 1941.). There is a community museum/landscape interpretation centre at the old town school.