The new Orkney Archaeology Review has been arriving with members of the Orkney Archaeology Society (OAS) over the past week.
The annual OAS publication looks at archaeological and heritage work undertaken in the islands the previous year.
This year, the UHI Archaeology Institute contributions are an article on “men’s graves” sites and the traditions surrounding them, Amanda Brend and Martin Carruthers on the geophysical survey carried out at the Loch of Ayre broch in Holm, Orkney, Sigurd Towrie on the 2025 excavation at Spurness, Sanday, and a look ahead to this summer’s exploratory dig at the Ness of Brodgar.
The full contents of the 2026 review, the eleventh in the series, are:
- David Drever 1952-2025
- Dating, researching and identifying the Sandway shipwreck
- Orkney Archaeology Festival 2025
- Rebuilding ancient faces
- The Men’s Graves
- The Earl’s Bu and Round Church, Orphir, Orkney
- Geophysical survey at the Loch of Ayre broch
- 36th Field Runologists’ Meeting
- Spurness: Another piece in Sanday’s Neolithic jigsaw
- New life for the Tomb of the Eagles
- News from Orkney Museum
- Geophysics at the Ness of Brodgar
The book, which is free to society members, will be available for non-members to buy here.
