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Category: Newark

Newark Pictish Stone Research

Pictish symbol stone on display for first time in exhibition focusing on the Newark story

A Pictish symbol stone will be on display at the Orkney Museum for the first time this summer as part of an exhibition exploring the history of Newark, Deerness, Orkney.

by Sigurd TowrieThursday, May 12, 2022 (8:00am)Friday, May 13, 2022 (6:03pm)
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Newark Publications Viking/Norse

UHI academics contribute to international Viking DNA research project

Two academics from the University of the Highlands and Islands were part of an international team of researchers involved in a project hailed as “the world’s largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons”.

by Sigurd TowrieWednesday, September 30, 2020 (11:02am)Wednesday, March 10, 2021 (8:07pm)
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Newark

Ongoing work to protect Newark archaeology from the elements

As the storms are replaced by snow showers and a period of relative calm, archaeologists from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute and Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) together with a small army of volunteers are inspecting the fragile site at Newark.

by seanlisle1Friday, February 28, 2020 (3:32pm)Wednesday, May 11, 2022 (9:46am)
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Newark Pictish Stone Research

New research project focuses on eroding medieval cemetery in Orkney

ORCA has been awarded a grant of £202,000 by Historic Environment Scotland to complete an important archaeology research project centred on Newark Bay, Deerness, Orkney.

by seanlisle1Friday, April 5, 2019 (12:12pm)Wednesday, May 11, 2022 (9:31am)
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Iron Age Newark Pictish Stone

Pictish cross-slab discovered in Deerness

The Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA), with support from Historic Environment Scotland, has completed a delicate rescue mission to recover a rare Pictish carved stone from an eroding cliff face in Orkney’s East Mainland.

by seanlisle1Friday, October 28, 2016 (1:50am)Wednesday, May 11, 2022 (9:22am)
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