One of the most rewarding local history museums in the region, the volunteer-run Strathnaver Museum lies in the old Farr church, just east of the main village of Bettyhill.

It preserves a rewarding rag-tag of local artefacts, though the most famous lies outside in the old church graveyard. It’s Farr Stone, a ninth-century engraved Pictish gravestone, is free for all to view.

There are more Pictish engravings inside the museum, which also boasts an almost 4000-year-old Bronze Age beaker.

Other exhibits recount the hardscrabble times of crofting, with oddities including a dogskin (!) fishing bouy and the ‘St Kilda mailboat’, a small wooden boat-shaped container once used for mail from the island of St Kilda.

There’s also a whole room dedicated to Clan Mackay, which ruled the roost for centuries in this part of the country.

Strathnaver Trail