Archaeology Festival: Orkney’s submerged landscapes
Associate Professor Scott Timpany is leading a walk to the Bay of Ireland, Stenness, on Thursday afternoon, September 10, as part of the Orkney Archaeology Festival.
Category: Archaeobotany
Focus on traditional Orkney food on opening day of 2026 science festival
The 2026 Orkney International Science Festival gets under way tomorrow, with an event in UHI Orkney looking at traditional food in the county.
Dig into the Ness as part of 2026 Orkney Science Festival
‘Ness Day’ is just one of many events on the horizon as part of the Orkney Science Festival and Orkney Archaeology Festival.
Ness plant remains project benefits from national RICHeS funding programme
A project to assess carbonised plant remains from the Ness of Brodgar is one of 43 to receive funding through the first Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) Access Fund.
Hill and shore – coring gives students a glimpse of Orkney’s prehistoric landscape
The annual, two-week practical environmental archaeology module drew to a close on Friday with a field trip focusing on coring.
The bere experience – student excursion to Birsay’s Barony Mill
Students on the practical environmental archaeology module took a break from lab work and lectures yesterday for an excursion to Orkney’s last working water mill.
Students congregate for annual environmental archaeology sessions
The second week of our environmental archaeology “shortcourse” gets under way today, with the focus switching from zooarchaeology to archaeobotany.
SGSAH funding sets another two UHI postgraduates on the path to a PhD
We are delighted to confirm that another two of our postgraduate students are on the road to a PhD following successful funding applications from the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH).
New environmental archaeology masters degree starting in 2026
A new environmental archaeology masters degree is coming to the UHI Archaeology Institute in 2025.
Link: Excavating the central hearth in the Ness of Brodgar’s Structure Five
UHI Archaeology Institute PhD candidate Sarah-Jane Haston on her experience of excavating Structure Five’s central hearth in 2024.
Sue’s bound for St Andrews in new year to start her PhD research
Another UHI alumni is bound for pastures new, with Sue Dyke starting a PhD at the University of St Andrews in January 2025.
Link: ‘Cereal Journey’ – analysing the cereal grains from the Ness of Brodgar
Two articles from Sarah-Jane Haston, who is looking at the charred plant remains from the Ness of Brodgar as part of her PhD with the UHI Archaeology Institute.
Students gather in Orkney for two weeks of practical sessions
The UHI Archaeology Institute has been buzzing these past two weeks with students from across the network in Orkney for their two-week environmental archaeology practical module.