Sophie Durbin, a UHI Archaeology Institute PhD student, has published an article in a special edition of Different Visions, which puts forward a novel approach to Orkney’s Norse and Neolithic archaeology through the lens of post-modern performance.
Dr Antonia Thomas features in a new Time Team video on prehistoric rock art, contrasting that found on Ilkley Moor with the Neolithic carvings in Orkney and the Ness of Brodgar.
UHI Archaeology Institute director Professor Jane Downes features in a new television programme looking at the Stonehenge Altar Stone.
Would you like help to shape how the story of Orkney’s Neolithic is told? If so, UHI Archaeology Institute PhD student Cameron Taylor would like your input via an online survey.
A small team of diggers will return to the Ness of Brodgar in 2026, following a major programme of geophysical survey across the site.
Friday afternoon saw a field trip to the recently re-opened “Tomb of the Eagles”, led by Professor Colin Richards.
Some photographs of Saturday’s excursions to the Knowes of Trotty as part of the first Orkney Archaeology Festival.
UHI Archaeology Institute students were among the volunteers at the ongoing excavation of a Neolithic chambered cairn in Orkney’s East Mainland.
A new model, courtesy of UHI Archaeology Institute PhD student Logan O’Brien, of the Sanday Neolithic structure at the end of the 2025 dig last week.
That’s this season’s dig finished, the trench backfilled and we’re beginning to get packed up for the journeys home.
The penultimate day of excavation saw a buzz across the site as we race to get as much done before backfilling the site on Friday.
Our first pottery, an elusive wall section and a spectacular flaked stone adze!
The second and final week of this demanding, but rewarding, field season got under way today with a full complement of student diggers and volunteers on site.
We’re hosting an open day at the excavation site and the Sanday Heritage Centre on Sunday, August 10, followed by a talk in the school on Friday, August 15, at 7.30pm.
The covers are off and the archaeology continues to perplex!
The bulk of the infill at the western end of the Bronze Age structure is now gone – ready for the covers to come off tomorrow.
Full steam ahead – deturfing and cleaning continued but the southern wall has emerged.
Thwarted by Storm Floris! Although the weather saw digging cancelled, there was a chance to see some Sanday archaeology up close.
