The UHI Archaeology Institute and Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre Development Trust (REWDT) hosted a field trip to Rousay earlier this month.
The participants were in Orkney for the Living on the Edge: Island Livelihoods in Climate Crisis Symposium, which brought together community representative and academics from Ireland, the USA and Orkney.
The symposium, which ran from April 5-7, was funded by the Clingen Family Centre for the Study of Modern Ireland, Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and University of Notre Dame.
In Rousay, the delegates visited the heritage centre before archaeologist Julie Gibson briefed them about the effect of coastal erosion on heritage sites in Orkney.
Peter Roebuck, a director of the REWDT, then outlined the trust’s work in the islands of Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre.
After visiting the site of the ongoing UHI Archaeology Institute excavations at Skaill, the field trip drew to a close at the Midhowe stalled cairn.
The following day, institute director Professor Jane Downes and Julie Gibson presented a paper, Archaeological Heritage and Islands’ Sustainability.
