Finding the Vikings – Skaill dig update
The international dig in Rousay is now beginning to uncover finds. Test pits have been opened around the 18th Century farmstead at Skaill to investigate the underlying Viking farm.
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Rousay excavations at Swandro and Skaill starting this week!
Two Excavations along the Westness shore start this week: at the coastally eroding site at Swandro and Viking Farmstead at Skaill, Westness, Rousay, start next week. Combined, these aim to investigate the deep history of this fascinating stretch of coast.
Kirkwall Garden Dig 2016
Community map of Orkney’s World Heritage Site
Historic Environment Scotland commissioned the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute to facilitate a Community Map project for the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site.
Visiting the wreck of German destroyer B98 in Sanday
As part of Battle of Jutland Commemoration Day, staff from Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology, gave a presentation concerning the B98 German destroyer wrecked at Lopness on the island of Sanday, Orkney.
Day 2 & 3 Kirkwall Dig.
First dig in Kirkwall since 1978 starts today
New book to commemorate centenary of loss of HMS Hampshire
Volunteer Training Excavation Opportunity
Finding the Medieval Shoreline in Kirkwall
Western Isles Submerged Forest Community Site Visit and Workshop.
Community archaeology: fieldwalking photographs
Investigating the old shoreline of Kirkwall
Map Orkney Month: New Paper Published
Community Mapping Walk
Discovering ‘Hidden Kirkwall’
The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute is running the first in a series of projects in the Kirkwall Townscape Heritage Initiative. The project aims to involve local people in archaeology and discover a hidden Kirkwall.
Kirkwall THI initiative launches
The Kirkwall Townscape Heritage Initiative is a two-year programme of archaeological investigations in Kirkwall conservation area offering community training and memorable hands-on experiences.
Kirkwall Grammar School pupils’ Big Day Out
The Archaeology Institute UHI organised a “Big Day Out” for the whole of Kirkwall Grammar School S1 (125 pupils) visited the World Heritage main sites for the day on the 12th May 2015.