Gary secures PhD scholarship to continue his research into stone tools
After completing a BA and two Masters degrees with us, Gary Lloyd has won a prestigious PhD scholarship to investigate Neolithic stone tools from Orkney.
After completing a BA and two Masters degrees with us, Gary Lloyd has won a prestigious PhD scholarship to investigate Neolithic stone tools from Orkney.
To mark the the final season of excavation, the Ness of Brodgar is the subject of a major new exhibition at the Orkney Museum this summer.
Some new photographs added to the Tombs of the Isles page after a visit to check some of the puzzling features in the Taversoe Tuick.
The 2009 book detailing the excavation of a Neolithic stalled cairn in Papa Westray, Orkney, is the latest open access title from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
UHI Archaeology Institute MRes student Sue Dyke updates us on her research project to reconstruct the landscape around the Ness of Brodgar using pollen analysis.
Two posts regarding the ongoing post-excavation work with animal bone at the Ness of Brodgar.
Archive photographs added to the Tombs of the Isles entry for the Taversoe Tuick, Rousay.
There’s little left to see of this Neolithic stalled cairn now, but we’ve added photographs after its 1937 excavation to the Knowe of Rowiegar’s Tombs of the Isles entry.
The recording of the Orkney Archaeology Society (OAS) talk on the rediscovery and excavation of a Maeshowe-type chambered cairn in Holm.
We’ve added a bumper batch of scanned photographs this week, showing the Blackhammer stalled cairn in Rousay before and after excavation.
After the original was lost, we’ve collected all the material from the 2008 Ring of Brodgar excavation dig diary, expanded on it, and made it available online again.
A selection of scanned photographs from 1936 have been added to the Knowe of Lairo entry in our Tombs of the Isles resource.
We’ve been going through the archives again, this time adding pictures of the Rousay’s Knowe of Ramsay to the Tombs of the Isles listing.
Photographs of the 1934 excavation of the Knowe of Yarso, Rousay, have been added to our Tombs of the Isles resource.
In August and September, excavation in the East Mainland parish of Holm revealed the remains of a Maeshowe-type chambered cairn.
Photographs from the 1932-34 excavations at Midhowe have been added to its Tombs of the Isles entry.
The fifth, and final, talk in our Tombs of the Isles series sees Dr Antonia Thomas discuss the rock art in the Holm of Papa Westray South chambered cairn.
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.