Tag: community
Caithness Broch Festival 2017 Underway
Mapping Magnus Geophysics to Commence
Project update: Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre, Land and Sea
Work at Skaill farmstead, Westness, Rousay, got under way last week with some building survey, walkover survey and a workshop with the Rousay Community School.
The Cairns Day Five 2017
New ‘Mapping Magnus’ project launched
Community archaeology and open day in Rousay
The first phase of the community archaeology project – Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre Land and Sea: Exploring Island Heritage, Past and Present – runs from June 13-16, 2017.
‘Listening to the Piers’ – new project for Stromness launches
The Stromness Museum is celebrating a £9,700 Heritage Lottery Fund grant as part of the Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017.
Archaeological Building Survey Opportunity, Kirkwall
New Field Archaeology Short Course @ The Cairns
Swartigill Dig Season Ends
Another season of excavation at the Swartigill Burn has ended. The day excavation seems to have flown by so quickly, and we have made a great deal of progress towards defining the form of the structures in the trench.
Exciting find at Swartigill
A most intriguing object emerged from the earth at Swartigill, Caithness – an object that perhaps sheds some light on the function of the site.
Swartigill Friday
The Swartigill excavation is a community dig. This means that local people are involved at all stages of the process and local volunteers receive basic training in archaeological methods and help with the actual dig.
Swartigill update
Monday was a bit disrupted by the snow, but we got a good afternoon’s work in and made some good progress defining the rest of the rubble and possible structural features in the north end of the trench. As you can see in the photo, there are numerous possible wall lines and linear features showing through.
Swartigill – days two and three
Despite everyone’s best intentions, it was obvious by around 9.00am on Day Two that the dig could not continue. The whole area took on the characteristics of a well-shaken snow globe as the cold combined with the snow to make conditions impossible.
Swartigill – day one
Sunday, April 23, dawned with an early ferry crossing as the team from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute bounced over the Pentland Firth en-route to Caithness and the Swartigill archaeological excavation.
Celebrating World Heritage Day in Orkney
Repair work starts at the Skibageo Hoose
Work has started on the repair project at the Skibageo Hoose – a boat house situated high on a cliff near the Brough of Birsay on the exposed north coast of Orkney’s West Mainland.