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Category: Excavation

Excavation Iron Age ORCA Swartigill

Dig team back on site at Swartigill after mid-season break

The excavation team at the Iron Age site at Swartigill, in Caithness, are back on site after their four-day long-weekend break.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, August 29, 2023 (8:37am)Tuesday, September 5, 2023 (5:14pm)
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Excavation Skaill Farmstead Student Stories

Skaill farm – a student’s experience of the excavation field school

Undergraduate student Sarah James reports on her experience over the two-week excavation field school at Skaill farm, Rousay. 

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, August 21, 2023 (8:42am)Saturday, August 19, 2023 (2:44pm)
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Excavation Iron Age ORCA Swartigill

Crossing to Caithness for last dig of the season

Excavation resumes at Swartigill, Caithness, tomorrow – running until September 8.

by Sigurd TowrieSunday, August 13, 2023 (11:00am)Tuesday, September 5, 2023 (5:14pm)
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Excavation Skaill Farmstead

Skaill farm excavation – week three update

As the trenches at Skaill farm, in Rousay, are closed for another year, project co-director Dan Lee reflects on another successful season.

by Sigurd TowrieSaturday, August 12, 2023 (12:25pm)Monday, August 14, 2023 (5:58pm)
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Excavation Skaill Farmstead

Skaill farm excavation – week two update

The end of our second week finished with a glorious day of sunshine and the site open day on Saturday, enjoyed by over 60 visitors from Rousay, Orkney and beyond.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, July 25, 2023 (10:22pm)Tuesday, July 25, 2023 (10:22pm)
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Excavation Neolithic Ness of Brodgar

UHI Students reveal more of the ‘Great Wall’ at Ness of Brodgar fieldschool

Our two-week fieldschool at the Ness of Brodgar came to an end yesterday, with the students achieving, admirably, what site director Nick Card tasked them to do – open a trench extension and expose another section of the “Great Wall of Brodgar”.

by Sigurd TowrieSaturday, July 22, 2023 (2:42pm)Tuesday, August 22, 2023 (10:13am)
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Excavation Skaill Farmstead

Head to Rousay this Saturday for 2023 open day at Skaill farm dig

The ongoing excavations at Skaill farm, Rousay, are hosting an open day this Saturday, July 22, 2023.

by Sigurd TowrieThursday, July 20, 2023 (7:21am)Tuesday, August 22, 2023 (10:12am)
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Skaill Farm (Dan Lee)
Excavation Skaill Farmstead

Skaill farm excavation – week one update

The end of the first week at Skaill saw the trenches reopened and new excavations started, focusing on the range of buildings below the surviving 19th century farm – the earliest phases of which could be late medieval.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, July 17, 2023 (9:18pm)Monday, July 17, 2023 (9:48pm)
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