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05/08/2017

Join Mark Stephen and Helen Needham for the latest outdoor activities from Shetland to the Borders, plus the key stories for those who live and work in the countryside.

Rousay is an island within the Orkney Islands. It is home to over 160 archaeological sites, dating back thousands of years.

Throughout the programme Mark travels along the Westness Heritage Walk, the most important archaeological mile in Scotland, which covers thousands of years of history in just one mile-long rough coastal path.

Along the way he finds out about the first Stone Age settlers, Picts, Vikings and how we are learning more from these important sites and preserving them for the future.

2017 is Scotland's year of history heritage and archaeology and Historic Environment Scotland has just opened the country's first building conservation hub in Stirling at The Engine Shed. Laura Cuthill goes for a visit.

Mark is at the Scottish Maritime Museum exploring an exhibition which tells the story of the Cunard Line and Clydebank shipbuilder John Brown and Company.

The River Dee Trust put receivers into Aberdeen Harbour to detect tagged juvenile salmon back in April. Mark goes out on a boat with them as they retrieve the monitors.

Mark visits Blackstone Clydesdales near Cumnock where they let the public have a go at working, riding or driving their heavy horses.

Euan revisits Nigg Bay Reserve to see how a project started 14 years ago to make holes in a sea wall has encouraged wildlife.

What do you get when you combine one of the darkest stories from Scotland's past with one of the eeriest parts of our canal network? The answer, a unique piece of outdoor theatre. Laura Cuthill finds out more about The Resurrection.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sat 5 Aug 2017 06:30

Broadcast

  • Sat 5 Aug 2017 06:30

Landward

Landward

Scotland's farming and countryside programme