Category: ORCA
New research – Finding ancient harbours on Papa Westray, Orkney
l known that Orkney is open to the elements and is battered by storms during the winter months. Activity, even now, is governed by the weather and harbours have been and are an important element in Orcadian life.
Gairsay Ballast Mounds – Flora and Fauna
The Utrecht Wreck: Second Cannon Found
Exploring Orkney’s Early harbours, Landing Places and Shipping
Community Marine Archaeology Project in Sanday – Surveying The Utrecht
Marine Archaeology Fieldwork starts in October – Gairsay, Orkney
Community map of Orkney’s World Heritage Site
Historic Environment Scotland commissioned the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute to facilitate a Community Map project for the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site.
GIS in Maritime Archaeology Course
Visiting the wreck of German destroyer B98
As part of Battle of Jutland Commemoration Day, staff from Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology, gave a presentation concerning the B98 German destroyer wrecked at Lopness on the island of Sanday, Orkney.
Remembering The Hampshire
HMS Hampshire Initial ROV Images
Survey of HMS Hampshire wreck site
The wreck site of HMS Hampshire is to be surveyed ahead of the centenery of the vessel’s sinking.
Finding The Utrecht
Wrecks of experimental ships discovered in Scapa Flow
Nautical Archaeology Society Courses
Relics of War
Abstract from Mark Littlewood and Dr. Annalisa Christie`s recent paper.