Talking Orkney placenames at national conference
Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon was talking Orkney placenames recently at the Scottish Place Name Society Autumn Conference.
Category: Orkney
Join the ORCA team on North Isles industrial heritage fieldwork
Join the ORCA team carrying out industrial heritage fieldwork in Orkney’s North Isles over the next two weeks.
Raggie’s quest for tales of places and surnames
Dr Ragnhild Ljosland updates us on her “Vikings, Pirates, and Shipwrecked Princesses” project.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Walking Archaeological Talk, Hoy, 17th June
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.