Students on the ongoing practical environmental archaeology module took a break from lab work and lectures yesterday for an excursion to the Barony Mill, Orkney’s last working water mill.
This week’s sessions are focusing on archaeobotany, so a trip to the West Mainland parish of Birsay, with Associate Professor Scott Timpany, to see the only place to still mill bere barley was particularly apt. The guided tour over, it was back to Kirkwall to resume studies ahead of Friday’s field trip around the parish of Firth for a practical coring and sampling session.
Our thanks to the Birsay Heritage Trust and staff at the Barony Mill for the warm welcome.
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