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.
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.
The Wirk, Rousay. (Sigurd Towrie)Exterior of the building. (Sigurd Towrie)The interior. (Sigurd Towrie)Another interior shot. (Sigurd Towrie)Worked red sandstone fragments on the kirk boundary wall, with the Wirk in the background. (Sigurd Towrie) Sarah Jane and Chris at work. (Sigurd Towrie)The outer wall. (Sigurd Towrie)View to the Wirk across an exposed section of wall footing. (Sigurd Towrie)
