Spurness 2025 – dig diary day three
Full steam ahead – deturfing and cleaning continued but the southern wall has emerged.
Category: Bronze Age
Spurness 2025 – dig diary day two
Thwarted by Storm Floris! Although the weather saw digging cancelled, there was a chance to see some Sanday archaeology up close.
Spurness 2025 – dig diary day one
Day one of our excavation in Sanday – and it was a day of deturfing and cleaning.
3D model of the Spurness prehistoric structures
A 3d model from Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark showing the Bronze Age structures in Spurness, Sanday, under excavation in 2018.
Back to Sanday to investigate the Neolithic-Bronze Age transition
A team from the UHI Archaeology Institute is back in Sanday to continue excavating a Neolithic/Bronze Age site.
West Mainland excursion explores Neolithic and Bronze Age sites
A busload of archaeology students were in Orkney’s West Mainland on Tuesday for a tour of Neolithic and Bronze Age sites that took them well off the beaten path.
A brough and a broch – Yesnaby trip considers the Bronze and Iron Ages
The west coast of Mainland Orkney was the destination for a small group of archaeology students yesterday, with a field trip to Yesnaby and Borwick.
Video: ‘Mysteries of Prehistoric Scotland’ series now available to all
There’s a veritable cornucopia of institute faces in a 2022 documentary series on prehistoric Scotland now available to view online.
Talking stone circles with Professor Colin Richards…
The UHI Archaeology Institute’s Professor Colin Richards talks to BBC Radio Orkney about his new book, ‘Stone Circles: A Field Guide’.
Sunset expedition to Orkney’s Knowes of Trotty barrow cemetery
An evening of glorious sunshine saw an impromptu institute expedition to the Knowes of Trotty.
Institute researchers heading to Norway for project investigating prehistoric climate change
Professor Ingrid Mainland and Associate Professor Scott Timpany have been awarded funding to participate in the international ‘Climate, Crops and Crisis’ research project.
Wild things – investigating prehistoric red deer in Scotland’s islands
Two zooarchaeologists from the UHI Archaeology Institute are among the researchers looking at the role of red deer in the prehistory of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.
Video: In the Heart of Beyond – Hebridean Neolithic and Bronze Age population movements
The recording of September 2022’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar featuring Mairi MacLean.
Intensely moved by the human stories at launch of ‘World of Stonehenge’
Dr Antonia Thomas was in London last week and attended the official launch of the World of Stonehenge at the British Museum.
Student work placements at Bronze Age excavations in Perth
The UHI Archaeology Institute has 12 student work placements available on four Bronze Age sites in Perth.
Video: ‘Grave matters: harnessing the enduring power of prehistoric grave goods’
The recording of January’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, January 28, 2022.
Video: Tresness – fresh findings from Sanday stalled cairn
The recording of November’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, November 26, 2021.
Video: Exploring applications of location-based augmented reality in an island landscape
The recording of October’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, October 29, 2021.
Video: ‘Out of the Round: Continuity and connection to landscape in hut circle communities’
Hannah Genders Boyd outlines her research on Bronze and Iron Age roundhouse communities in western Scotland and their relationship with the local environment.
Congratulations Hannah! Institute’s first MRes passes with flying colours
University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute research postgraduate student Hannah Genders Boyd has been awarded her Masters by Research (MRes) – the institute’s first.