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Skaill Excavation, Rousay
News

Orkney Islands Council looking for new county archaeologist

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, May 20, 2022 (3:52pm)Friday, May 20, 2022 (3:52pm)
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Werden Abbey
Seminar Zooarchaeology

Entangled sources – zooarchaeology and the economy of Werden Abbey

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, May 20, 2022 (8:00am)Friday, May 20, 2022 (11:26am)
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Visitors at Ness of Brodgar
Research

‘Stunning result’ in national research assessment sees institute placed 14th in UK archaeology rankings

The UHI Archaeology Institute has been placed 14th in the UK archaeology rankings, and second in Scotland, following a nationwide assessment of university-based research.

by Sigurd TowrieWednesday, May 18, 2022 (11:20am)Wednesday, May 18, 2022 (11:27am)
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Newark Pictish Stone Research

Pictish symbol stone on display for first time in exhibition focusing on the Newark story

A Pictish symbol stone will be on display at the Orkney Museum for the first time this summer as part of an exhibition exploring the history of Newark, Deerness, Orkney.

by Sigurd TowrieThursday, May 12, 2022 (8:00am)Friday, May 13, 2022 (6:03pm)
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Cairns interior
Excavation Iron Age The Cairns

This summer’s dig at The Cairns will be open to the public

This summer’s excavation at The Cairns will be open to the public, with a special open day scheduled for Friday, July 1.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, May 10, 2022 (10:26am)Thursday, May 12, 2022 (9:52am)
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LIFTE Research

LIFTE team gather for research project’s first in-person meeting

den Dig, the LIFTE project team gathered in Orkney for their first in-person meeting since the project began in October 2020.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, May 9, 2022 (12:56pm)Monday, May 9, 2022 (1:32pm)
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The Cairns broch from above. (Bobby Friel)
Iron Age The Cairns

Cairns excavation takes pride of place at Stromness Museum summer exhibition

Our ongoing excavation at The Cairns is the subject of this year’s summer exhibition at the Stromness Museum.

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, May 6, 2022 (7:40am)Friday, May 6, 2022 (7:39am)
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Drystane Wall
News Postgraduate

Funded PhD opportunity – exploring drystone construction in the Northern Isles

Our colleagues at the Institute for Northern Studies UHI have a fully funded PhD studentship available looking at the cultural significance of drystone construction in Shetland and Orkney.

by Sigurd TowrieThursday, May 5, 2022 (12:15pm)Thursday, May 5, 2022 (12:15pm)
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Modern mason's mark in St Magnus Cathedral
Outreach Research St Magnus Graffiti Project

Link: Graffiti hunt finds 600 marks in Orkney’s St Magnus Cathedral

A news story about the St Magnus Cathedral Graffiti Project, which has seen the publication of a leaflet detailing some of the inscriptions found in the 12th century cathedral.

by Sigurd TowrieWednesday, May 4, 2022 (2:52pm)Wednesday, May 4, 2022 (2:54pm)
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Excavation LIFTE Shetland

Bone comb fragment unearthed in Lerwick test pit

Monday’s star find of the ongoing Lerwick Garden Dig was a bone comb fragment, found in the Bank Lane area of the town.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, May 3, 2022 (9:53am)Thursday, May 5, 2022 (1:04pm)
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Lerwick Garden Dig (Dan Lee)
Excavation LIFTE Shetland

Garden dig turning up interesting finds in Lerwick

Our “Lerwick Garden Dig” is off to a great start in Shetland over the weekend with some interesting finds, going back to the 17th century.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, May 2, 2022 (9:48am)Thursday, May 5, 2022 (1:04pm)
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Maeshowe interior. (Jim Richardson)
Seminar Viking/Norse

Video: ‘A great show-off’ – carving as an expression of self in the runic inscriptions of Maeshowe

Maeshowe’s runes featured in April’s UHI Archaeology Institute online seminar, which saw Dr Karen Langsholt Holmqvist present her research on medieval runic graffiti.

by Sigurd TowrieSaturday, April 30, 2022 (11:20am)Thursday, May 5, 2022 (1:04pm)
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Seaweed featured image
Post-excavation Research Zooarchaeology

Runner-up spot for UHI seaweed-consumption research poster

At the UK Archaeological Science conference in Aberdeen, Dr Magdalena Blanz and colleagues won the  runner-up poster prize for early career researchers.

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, April 29, 2022 (3:00pm)Monday, May 2, 2022 (11:03am)
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Excavation LIFTE Shetland

‘Lerwick Garden Dig’ gets under way in Shetland

A team from the Archaeology Institute UHI are in Shetland today as part of Looking in from the Edge (LIFTE) – an international project examining the Northern Isles’ place in European trade networks of the 15th to 18th centuries.

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, April 29, 2022 (8:00am)Tuesday, May 3, 2022 (9:42am)
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Viking/Norse

Runes on the radio – historian investigates ‘The Ancient Algorithm’

Dr Ragnhild Ljosland is one of the guests on a BBC Radio 3 broadcast focusing on runes on Sunday evening.

by Sigurd TowrieThursday, April 21, 2022 (1:00pm)Monday, May 2, 2022 (11:04am)
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Art & Archaeology Seminar

Talking bruck – free online seminar on the art and archaeology of waste in Orkney

The art and archaeology of rubbish is the subject of a free online seminar by Dr Antonia Thomas next week.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, April 18, 2022 (12:34pm)Monday, May 2, 2022 (11:04am)
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Neolithic Ness of Brodgar Seminar

Video: Connections across Britain and Ireland during the age of Stonehenge

Nick Card, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute and director of the Ness of Brodgar excavation, was a speaker in a British Museum talk last week on links between Neolithic Orkney and the rest of Britain and Ireland.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, April 12, 2022 (7:17am)Monday, May 2, 2022 (11:08am)
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Neolithic Tombs of the Isles

Survey images from Neolithic chambered cairn at Westray’s Vere Point

We were out in Westray on Friday as part of the launch of our Tombs of the Isles community project and took the chance to survey a little known Neolithic chambered cairn at Vere Point.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, April 5, 2022 (11:24am)Monday, May 2, 2022 (11:09am)
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