Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay: Day Five
At the end of the first week of the 2021 season, here is today’s excavation update from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute’s Dan Lee.
Category: Viking/Norse
Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay: Day Four
Today’s excavation update from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute’s Dan Lee.
Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay: Day Three
Wednesday’s excavation update from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute’s Dan Lee.
Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay: Day Two
Today’s Rousay excavation update from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute’s Dan Lee.
Archaeologists return to Rousay for Skaill excavation
A team from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute will be back in Rousay on Monday to resume excavation at the Skaill farmstead.
Viking boat burials in the spotlight at Friday’s free online seminar
From the massive and rich ship burials found in Scandinavia, to the small rowing boats used in boat burials on Scottish isles, the distinctive Viking burial rite making use of a boat to carry the dead into the next life has always fascinated.
UHI academics contribute to international Viking DNA research project
Two academics from the University of the Highlands and Islands were part of an international team of researchers involved in a project hailed as “the world’s largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons”.
Norse hall discovered in Rousay
A large Norse hall has been discovered during excavations at the Skaill farmstead, on the island of Rousay, Orkney. The hall probably dates to the 10th to 12th centuries AD and was discovered below more recent structures.
UHI Archaeology Institute team return to Skaill Farm, Rousay
Next week, commencing July 8, 2019, a team from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute will return to dig at the fascinating Skaill Farmstead site on the Orkney island of Rousay.
Runes in Orkney – a millennium of writing
We invited Andrea Freund PhD student currently studying at the University of the Highlands and Islands to write a guest blog on her research and exhibition into Viking runes.
Skaill Farm, Rousay – 2019 open day
The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute invites you to be an archaeologist for a day. Join the team uncovering the story of this exciting site at our Open Day at Skaill Farm on the island of Rousay, Orkney.
New project on Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre awarded funding
Rousay Heritage Trust has received a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) Stories, Stones and Bones grant for the Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre Land and Sea – Exploring Island Heritage, Past and Present, in Rousay, Orkney.
‘They graze on wave and ocean plants’ – research into foddering strategies in island environments
Dr Ingrid Mainland and Dr Philippa Ascough, Lecturer & Head NERC Radiocarbon Facility (East Kilbride) talk about their research into foddering strategies in island environments: pig, sheep, goat and cattle diet in Late Iron Age to Viking/Late Norse Orkney.
New Research – trading identities and Viking horse burials in Scotland
New research by University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute PhD student Siobhan Cooke, explores the use of animals, particularly horses, in Viking funerary rituals across Scotland and how these rituals were used to help develop a cultural identity in the rapidly expanding Viking realm.
‘Toiling with Teeth’ – research paper published
A key goal for archaeozoology is to define and characterise pastoral farming strategies – how did people in the Middle Iron Age / Viking Late Norse period organise their farming?
Runestone fragment found on institute lecturer’s farmland
A runestone with a religious inscription has been discovered on a farm owned by Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon, an expert on medieval church history.