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Dunbeath is a village in south-east Caithness, Scotland on the A9 road. It was the birthplace of Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973), author of The Silver Darlings, Highland River etc., many of whose books are embeded in Dunbeath as well as its Strath. Dunbeath has an extremely abundant historical landscape, the website of various Iron Age brochs and also a very early middle ages monastic site (see Alex Morrison’s archaeological survey, “Dunbeath: A Cultural Landscape”.) Of Dunbeath’s landscape, Gunn composed: “These tiny straths, like the Strath of Dunbeath, have this intimate charm. In boyhood we get to know every square lawn of it. We include it literally as well as our memories hold it. Birches, hazel trees for nutting, swimming pools with trout and also a periodically noticeable salmon, river-flats with the wind on the bracken and vanishing rabbit scuts, a wide range of wild flower and also little bird life, the skyrocketing hawk, the unforeseen roe, the old graveyard, thoughts of the folk who once lived far inland in straths and also hollows, the past and today held in a moment of day-dream.” (‘My Little Bit Of Britain’, 1941.). There is a community museum/landscape interpretation centre at the old village school.