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Category: Orkney

Lois and Maeshowe. (Sigurd Towrie)
Fieldwalking Orkney Postgraduate

Masters students out fieldwalking in the shadow of Maeshowe

Postgraduate students were out fieldwalking in Orkney’s West Mainland last week – their focus a newly ploughed field to the north-east of Maeshow

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, March 20, 2023 (11:58am)Monday, March 20, 2023 (4:44pm)
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Bay of Skaill, Orkney
Orkney Outreach Research

Raggie’s quest for tales of places and surnames

Dr Ragnhild Ljosland updates us on her “Vikings, Pirates, and Shipwrecked Princesses” project.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, November 22, 2022 (8:00am)Sunday, November 20, 2022 (1:04pm)
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The moai statues of Easter Island. Under threat from climate change. Photograph: Jane Downes.
Climate Change Orkney Rapa Nui Seminar

Video: Island Stories – archaeology and climate change

The recording of Professor Jane Downes’s welcome seminar for students, which looks the effect of climate change on archaeological heritage.

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, September 16, 2022 (9:00am)Thursday, September 15, 2022 (2:31pm)
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Mackenzie section
LIFTE Orkney Research

A picture’s worth a thousand words…

A part of the LIFTE volunteer research programme, Lesley Joyce was tasked with examining old maps of Orkney in the hunt for clues relating to early trade in the islands. Here she outlines one of the highlights of her search.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, June 7, 2021 (8:00am)Thursday, June 3, 2021 (9:39am)
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Orkney Publications Research

New journal volume focuses on the victims of Orkney’s witchcraft trials

The launch event for the ninth volume of the New Orkney Antiquarian Journal took place last week and featured a presentation by Dr Ragnhild Ljosland, a lecturer at the UHI Archeology Institute.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, September 28, 2020 (11:21am)Wednesday, March 10, 2021 (8:10pm)
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Iron Age Orkney The Cairns

Black Lives Mattered: Ancient Rome, Africa, Scotland, and Orkney.

The Cairns Excavation Site Director & University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute Lecturer Martin Carruthers talks about the multi cultural experience of Iron Age society in Orkney as the exploitative Roman Empire appeared in Britain.

by seanlisle1Monday, June 8, 2020 (10:44am)Wednesday, March 10, 2021 (8:14pm)
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Archaeology Orkney

Walking Archaeological Talk, Hoy, 17th June

by seanlisle1Tuesday, May 30, 2017 (11:04pm)Tuesday, June 13, 2017 (1:49am)
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Fieldwalking Orkney Outreach

Orkney World Heritage Site fieldwalking exhibition launch

If you are in Kirkwall at 2pm on Thursday 12th January then you are cordially invited to the launch of the field walking exhibition being held at Orkney Museum.

by seanlisle1Friday, January 6, 2017 (5:07am)Wednesday, March 31, 2021 (2:32pm)
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Archaeology Orkney

Two Underground Finds in One Day…

by seanlisle1Thursday, May 5, 2016 (12:20pm)Monday, May 9, 2016 (3:41pm)
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Archaeology Orkney The Cairns

Test Pits at The Cairns, South Ronaldsay

by seanlisle1Wednesday, April 20, 2016 (9:44am)Wednesday, April 20, 2016 (9:44am)
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Archaeology Conference Orkney

Archaeology On Rousay

by seanlisle1Friday, March 25, 2016 (2:28pm)Monday, May 6, 2019 (3:06pm)
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Archaeology Marine archaeology ORCA Orkney Sanday

Finding The Utrecht

by seanlisle1Friday, March 18, 2016 (10:15am)Monday, May 6, 2019 (3:07pm)
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Archaeology Orkney Research

Map Orkney Month: New Paper Published

by seanlisle1Thursday, March 17, 2016 (10:21am)Monday, May 6, 2019 (3:07pm)
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Archaeology Orkney Outreach Sanday

Community Mapping Walk

by seanlisle1Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (1:26pm)Monday, May 6, 2019 (3:08pm)
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Archaeology Orkney Postgraduate The Cairns

A Splash of Colour from the Iron Age

by seanlisle1Wednesday, February 24, 2016 (12:24pm)Friday, March 11, 2016 (1:29pm)
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Archaeology Orkney Postgraduate The Cairns

The Cairns Character

by seanlisle1Tuesday, February 16, 2016 (10:01am)Friday, March 11, 2016 (1:30pm)
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Archaeology ORCA Orkney Postgraduate

Wrecks of experimental ships discovered in Scapa Flow

by seanlisle1Thursday, February 11, 2016 (12:21pm)Monday, May 6, 2019 (3:10pm)
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Archaeology Orkney Postgraduate Research

Do Orcadian Tombs Align with Solar Events ?

by seanlisle1Monday, February 8, 2016 (9:36am)Monday, May 6, 2019 (3:10pm)
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Top Posts & Pages

  • Masters students out fieldwalking in the shadow of Maeshowe
  • Video: The Cochno Stone and Faifley Rocks! - community archaeology and rock-art
  • SIRFA symposium - Orkney 2023
  • Digging at Ness of Brodgar ending in 2024 with focus shifting to intensive post-excavation work
  • Seminar: 'Beyond Hillshade' - LiDAR visualisation techniques in Orkney
  • The chambered cairns of Orkney
  • The Cairns
  • Orkney hosting SIRFA's final archaeology symposium in March
  • Moving to Orkney - our experience
  • Get up close to Skara Brae with new 3D model of 5,000-year-old settlement