Appeal to car park users ahead of trial trenching next week
A team from ORCA has been commissioned by Orkney Islands Council to open archaeological trial trenches in the car park in St Catherine’s Place, Kirkwall.
Video : ‘Scotland, Jamaica and slavery – a concise history’
The recording of the joint Orkney Heritage Society and UHI Archaeology Institute seminar featuring Kate Phillips, who discusses the unacknowledged black Scottish diaspora in Jamaica, our role in building racism and the unsung Scottish people who gave their lives to ending slavery.
Institute environmental archaeologist promoted to UHI Associate Professor
Dr Scott Timpany has been promoted to the role of Associate Professor in recognition of his contributions to research and teaching at the UHI Archaeology Institute.
Visit the Orkney Museum to see some of the Ness of Brodgar’s finest finds
The Orkney Museum is playing host to some of the Ness of Brodgar’s finest artefacts this summer.
Provisional geophysics results from suspected Rousay, Shapinsay and Stronsay tomb sites
Thanks to funding from the North Isles Landscape Partnership (NILPS), a team from ORCA (UHI Archaeology Institute) undertook three geophysical surveys at three suspected Orkney Neolithic chambered cairn sites for the Tombs of the Isles project.
Institute welcomes University of Oslo visitors to Orkney
The UHI Archaeology Institute played host to a group from the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, this morning.
Explore Neolithic art at free workshops in Shapinsay, Sanday and Westray
Shapinsay and Sanday residents can look forward to a free talk and workshop exploring Neolithic rock art in Orkney later this month.
Chambered cairn or not? Geophysics team survey Stronsay’s Cutter’s Tooer
Cutter’s Tooer – a suspected Neolithic chambered cairn – was geophysically surveyed by a team from ORCA this week.
Video – Viking Age fortresses on the North Frisian islands
The recording of April’s research seminar, featuring Dr Martin Segschneider on the Viking Age fortifications in Germany’s North Frisian Islands.
Students try their hand at walkover surveys during Wasdale walkabout
The parish of Firth, in Orkney’s West Mainland, was the destination for Friday’s student fieldtrip looking at the finer details of walkover surveys.
Give archaeology a go – volunteer opportunities at this summer’s Swartigill dig
Volunteer opportunities available at the Burn of Swartigill excavation, Caithness, in August and September.
LIFTE impact highlighted by research council
The impact of the Looking in from the Edge (LIFTE) research project is one of two highlighted by the AHRC funding body in their April newsletter.
Survey module takes students to a sunny Howe of Hoxa
A group of postgraduate students have been in South Ronaldsay this week carrying out survey work around the Howe of Hoxa.
Tombs of the Isles – two more updates from Eday
Another two updates to our Tombs of the Isles database have gone live – Vinquoy and Braeside in Eday.
Tombs of the Isles update – Eday church
We’re still in Eday for today’s Tombs of the Isles project update – this time looking at the Eday church stalled cairn.
Geophysics planned for three more Neolithic tombs in the North Isles
A geophysics team from ORCA are heading out to Orkney’s North Isles to investigate three potential Neolithic chambered tombs.
Tombs of the Isles update – Huntersquoy, Eday
It’s back to Eday for today’s Tombs of the Isles project update. We begin with Huntersquoy, one of only two known two-storeyed Neolithic chambered cairns in Orkney.
Video: ‘Beyond Hillshade’ – LiDAR visualisation techniques in Orkney
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.
Easter fieldtrip 2023 – day three
The third, and final, day of our fieldtrip saw us depart Helmsdale early in the morning and head south.
Easter fieldtrip 2023 – day two
Day two of the 2023 Student Easter fieldtrip.