The UHI Archaeology Institute has been buzzing these past two weeks with students from across the network in Orkney for their two-week environmental archaeology practical module.
Last week, Associate Professor Scott Timpany led sessions on archaeobotany while this week it’s the turn of zooarchaeology, with Professor Ingrid Mainland and Dr Julia Cussans. This included a session on shellfish with PhD candidate Holly Young and a trip to Newark, Deerness, to view eroding sections of the shore.
One Tuesday afternoon, the group headed to the West Mainland for a tour of the Kirbuster farm museum, where curator Neil Leask explained farming, animal husbandry and life in Orkney in days gone by.
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