Is it legal to collect at Badbea clearance village?

Permission required. The ruins are kept as a memorial and visitor site and ownership is not stated; landowner consent is required, and all finds in Scotland must be reported under Treasure Trove law.

What can you find at Badbea clearance village?

Georgian and Victorian coins, buttons, buckles, clay pipe stems, fishing weights, pottery sherds

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Badbea clearance village

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokens

Buttons and buckles

Clay pipe stems

Also reported: fishing weights, pottery sherds.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

1792 to 1911 clearance resettlement

Clifftop settlement above Berriedale where about 28 families evicted from Langwell, Ousdale and Berriedale were resettled from 1792. Families drifted away after herring fishing was stopped in favour of salmon, and the last resident left in 1911.View source →