The recording of March’s free research seminar, featuring Crane Begg, from the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology, who discussed his project to evaluate different visualisation techniques using LiDAR in Orkney.
A team from the UHI Archaeology Institute will be back at the Burn of Swartigill from August 14 until September 8.
A revised and updated booklet outlining the archaeology and history of Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre is now available to download.
Our Tombs of the Isles project is back out in Eday next week, when Dan Lee will lead a walk to the Vinquoy chambered cairn.
We’re in Westray for today’s Tombs of the Isles project update – in particular Fitty Hill, a probable Orkney-Cromarty style stalled cairn.
Two more updates to our Tombs of the Isles project pages – the addition of an early report of the excavations at Midhowe and the Knowe of Yarso.
Geophysical surveys of two possible Neolithic chambered cairns in Sanday were among the Tombs of the Isles project activities that took place at the end of 2022.
Work on our Tombs of the Isles project is ongoing, as we gather more information on the sites of definite and suspected chambered cairns in Orkney’s North Isles.
ORCA, the commercial arm of the UHI Archaeology Institute, has been re-registered by the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA)
A team from the University of the Highlands and Islands, led by the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Dan Lee, have been working with Cateran Ecomuseum to complete a Cultural Heritage Assessment for this “museum without walls”.
A flash back to the tail end of the summer and the excavation of the Iron Age site at Swartigill, Caithness.
Rock art in Neolithic Orkney is the subject of a talk by Dr Antonia Thomas in Papa Westray tomorrow evening, Friday.
Antonia will be joined by ORCA’s Chris Gee for a workshop on Saturday, November 19, looking at the inspiration, materials and methods used in the creation of Neolithic art.
The Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) is looking for a senior project officer to join its busy team at Orkney College UHI.
The excavation of the Swartigill Iron Age settlement has reached the end of its second week, and we have had some exciting finds and made a lot of progress.
The rescheduled Shapinsay launch event for the Tombs of the Isles project will take place on Tuesday, September 6.
The star find at the ongoing Swartigill excavation yesterday must be this little flash of colour and decoration straight from the Iron Age! It is a half fragment of a beautifully decorated glass
At the end of our first week of excavation at the Swartigill Iron Age settlement, we are already starting to see some intriguing features within the structures, and tantalising traces of things to come.
The UHI Archaeology Institute begins its sixth season of excavation at the Burn of Swartigill on Monday, August 15.
With the 2022 season at Swartigill, Caithness, due to start next month, here are two videos from the excavation director Rick Barton to whet your appetite.
The final report for the Orkney Energy Landscapes project is now available to download.
