Bettyhill, on the north coast of Sutherland, sits beside Strathnaver — a landscape deeply marked by the Highland Clearances. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, communities across the Highlands were removed as estates were reorganised for sheep and later sporting land, pushing families off ancestral ground and remaking the glens behind them. What remains isn’t a single monument but a quiet absence: faint traces in the land, ruins, burial places, and the uneasy feeling of a landscape that looks