Our excavation season kicks off today, Monday, June 9, with Martin Carruthers and his team back at the The Cairns Iron Age site in South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
Work began on the site in 2006, revealing a large broch (c.100BC-AD200) and structures dating from the Iron Age through to the Norse period. Surrounding the broch is an extensive cluster of structures within a ditched enclosure some 65-70 metres in diameter. Later in the building sequence, this settlement sprawled even more extensively over the infilled remains of the ditch.
As usual, you can keep up with the dig with our daily diary, which will be posted here.
The 2025 dig runs until Friday, July 18, with an open day is scheduled for Friday, July 4. Visitors are welcome throughout the dig, Monday to Friday, between 10am and 4pm.
