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Category: Neolithic

The Pierowall decorated stone. (Sigurd Towrie)
Neolithic ORCA Tombs of the Isles Video

Video: Passage Grave Art in Orkney’s North Isles

Passage Grave Art in Orkney’s North Isles, by Dr Antonia Thomas, expands on last week’s talk and looks specifically at the artwork found in Orkney’s Maeshowe-type chambered cairns.

by Sigurd TowrieWednesday, September 27, 2023 (4:20pm)Wednesday, September 27, 2023 (5:01pm)
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Ness of Brodgar 'Butterfly' stone. (Antonia Thomas)
Neolithic ORCA Tombs of the Isles Video

Video: Art and architecture in Neolithic Orkney

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, September 22, 2023 (7:32am)Wednesday, September 27, 2023 (5:02pm)
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Quoyness, Sanday. (Antonia Thomas)
Neolithic ORCA Tombs of the Isles Video

Video: Death and burial in Neolithic Orkney (Part Two)

The second part of Professor Colin Richards’ Tombs of the Isles talk is now online.

by Sigurd TowrieThursday, September 14, 2023 (9:49am)Wednesday, September 27, 2023 (5:02pm)
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Quoyness, Sanday. (Sigurd Towrie)
Neolithic ORCA Tombs of the Isles Video

Video: Death and burial in Neolithic Orkney (Part One)

The first part of the second talk in the Tombs of the Isles series – Death and burial in Neolithic Orkney, by Professor Colin Richards – is now available online.

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, September 8, 2023 (10:00am)Wednesday, September 27, 2023 (5:03pm)
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Neolithic ORCA Tombs of the Isles Video

Tombs of the Isles – first in a series of recorded talks now online

The first in a series of five videos outlining Neolithic chambered cairns in Orkney’s North Isles is now available in the Tombs of the Isles project section of the website.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, September 5, 2023 (7:56am)Wednesday, September 6, 2023 (2:02pm)
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Neolithic ORCA Tombs of the Isles

Tombs of the Isles update – Mount Maesry

We’re back in Sanday for this Tombs of the Isles update – with new photographs added to Mount Maesry – a suspected Maeshowe-type chambered cairn on Start Point.

by Sigurd TowrieSunday, August 27, 2023 (1:30pm)Tuesday, September 5, 2023 (5:14pm)
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Sherd of incised Grooved Ware pottery from the Ness of Brodgar.
Neolithic Student Stories

Student’s Neolithic pottery exhibition on display at the Orkney Museum

An exhibition on Neolithic pottery, curated by student Lois Combs, is running at the Orkney Museum, Kirkwall, until September 30.

by Sigurd TowrieWednesday, August 23, 2023 (8:15am)Tuesday, August 22, 2023 (10:30am)
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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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