This year the East Lothian Archaeology & Local History Fortnight will run from 1st to 18 September and\u00a0 promises\u00a0 two weeks of archaeological and historical treats.\u00a0 The event kicks off with an Archaeology and Local History Festival at Haddington Town House on Saturday September 3rd following an evening reception and illustrated talk on Thursday September 1st.<\/p>\n
Find out about the Scotland’s Rural Past recording work at Walden Farm House, the East Lothian Council Archaeology Service Historic Kirkyard Project, Aberlady Heritage pilgrimage trails and lots more.<\/p>\n
Events include a variety of guided tours and illustrated talks throughout the county. Find out about archaeological work at Dunbar Town House, the survey and GIS work of the Royal Commission at Roxburgh and join local archaeological and historical experts on guided archaeological and historical tours around Musselburgh, North Berwick, Carberry and more. Take a walk in the footsteps of Rennie and Meikle at East Linton and discover what lies beneath the vegetation at St Andrews Kirk in Gullane. Join a knight in chainmail and find out about sieges and battles at Tantallon Castle.<\/p>\n
You can find out more here<\/a> and you can download a programme here<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year the East Lothian Archaeology & Local History Fortnight will run from 1st to 18 September and\u00a0 promises\u00a0 two weeks of archaeological and historical treats.\u00a0 The event kicks off with an Archaeology and Local History Festival at Haddington Town House on Saturday September 3rd following an evening reception and illustrated talk on Thursday September…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,147,211,214,375],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-archaeology","tag-east-lothian-archaeology-local-history","tag-heritage","tag-history","tag-september"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5206,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}