Excavation Skaill Farmstead Viking/Norse

Link: Is the Wirk a castle? Evaluating previous excavations

A new blog post for the Castle Studies Trust, by Dan Lee and Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon, on the 2021 excavation at the Wirk, Rousay.
Skaill, Rousay
Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon and Chris Gee, from the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA), at work at the Wirk in 2021. (Sigurd Towrie)

A new blog post for the Castle Studies Trust, by Dan Lee and Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon, on the 2021 excavation at the Wirk, Rousay.

The excavation followed a geophysical survey in September 2020. The goal was to better understand the nature and date of the Wirk, which had been variously interpreted as a 12th century Norse Castle, a hall-house tower, a defensive church tower and a 16th century tower and range.

Click here to read their conclusion.