Excavation Iron Age Neolithic The Cairns

‘Digging for Britain’ episode featuring Orkney excavations online now

The Digging for Britain programme featuring the Orkney excavations at The Cairns and Blowmuir is now available on BBC iPlayer.
Aerial view of The Cairns excavation site. (Tim Winterburn)
Aerial view of The Cairns excavation site. (📷 Tim Winterburn)

Two Orkney excavations are covered in the new series of the BBC TV programme Digging for Britain, which is available now on iPlayer.

Professor Alice Roberts visited the county last summer to film at our dig at The Cairns Iron Age site and also the University of Cardiff/National Museums Scotland excavation of the Blomuir Neolithic chambered cairn in Holm.

The programme, the third in the series, is due to be broadcast on BBC2 at 8pm on Thursday, January 9. The entire series is already available on the BBC iPlayer.

ORCA's Kevin Kerr with a stone ball found on site. (📷 Tom O'Brien)
ORCA’s Kevin Kerr with a stone ball found inside the Blowmuir chambered cairn in 2024. (📷 Tom O’Brien)

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