As part of the Orkney Archaeology Festival, Professor Jane Downes led two walks to the Knowes of the Trotty on Saturday, with a talk in the Harray hall between.
In use in the first half of the second millennium BC, the Knowes of Trotty are one of Orkney’s earliest groups of Bronze Age barrows. Geophysical survey in 2001 suggested the cemetery was once larger, containing at least two more mounds and possibly made up of as many as 20.
Jane, the director of the UHI Archaeology Institute, excavated at the site in the early 2000s and participants at Saturday’s event heard about the barrows themselves as well as the Early Neolithic structures discovered nearby.
Our thanks to all who took part and to the Orkney Archaeology Society, not only for their assistance on Saturday but for running the county’s first archaeology festival.
