View from a Croft 

As well as the amazing collection housed within Gairloch Museum, there are two areas outside the Museum that you can visit to learn about Gairloch’s past. 

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Behind Gairloch Museum you will find the Achtercairn Archaeology Trail – a route that leads you round the sites of 12 roundhouses, used as dwellings during the Iron age.

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You might want to visit the first roundhouse, a two-minute wander up the start of the trail on a good path. Recent excavations have uncovered a whole host of interesting finds including pot boilers, polishers and a quartz hammerstone. The rest of the trail is on a hill track and takes about two hours to complete. You can pick up a guide map from the Museum Shop.

 

Over the road in front of the Museum is a wheelchair accessible viewpoint with information about the local geology as well as large samples of rock types. There are some large Museum objects to view relating to the local fishing industry as well as an interpretation panel that shares the story of how important the industry was for the local economy.