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Category: Outreach

St Magnus Cathedral
Outreach St Magnus Graffiti Project

St Magnus Cathedral graffiti project launched

Archaeologists from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute have teamed up with Orkney Archaeology Society for an exciting community archaeology project centred on the 870 year old St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, Orkney.

by seanlisle1Friday, January 18, 2019 (7:53am)Thursday, June 3, 2021 (9:33am)
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Archaeology Outreach

Blide Trust community archaeology project hailed a great success

Last Friday and Saturday, June 29 and 30, 2018, archaeologists from the University of the Highlands Archaeology Institute teamed up with members of the Blide Trust to learn more about the history of 54 Victoria Street, Kirkwall – the organisation’s 18th Century headquarters.

by seanlisle1Friday, July 6, 2018 (5:49am)Wednesday, March 31, 2021 (3:13pm)
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Archaeology Plus – new art and archaeology project for Orkney’s Blide Trust

Orkney Blide Trust in partnership with Orkney College UHI and the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) Archaeology Institute are embarking on a joint project to find out more about the history of 54 Victoria Street, Kirkwall, the 18th Century house where the Blide Trust is based.

by seanlisle1Wednesday, June 20, 2018 (12:14am)Tuesday, March 30, 2021 (4:50pm)
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Mapping Magnus Outreach

Magnus walk and talk in Egilsay

by Dan LeeFriday, October 27, 2017 (6:12am)Tuesday, March 30, 2021 (4:53pm)
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Stromness from the Sea
Marine archaeology Outreach

‘Listening to the Piers’ exhibition at Stromness Museum

The dynamic story of Stromness’ many piers, collected during the project through stories, drawings, photographs and artefacts, will be exhibited in the entrance porch of Stromness Museum from Saturday, November 4, to December 31, 2017.

by seanlisle1Tuesday, October 24, 2017 (5:54am)Tuesday, March 30, 2021 (4:38pm)
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Excavation Mapping Magnus Outreach

Archaeologists for a day – schoolchildren help out at Mapping Magnus dig

Over the past couple of weeks, the University of the Highlands and Islands team at the Mapping Magnus excavation have involved local school children in the exciting excavations at Palace Village, Birsay, Orkney.

by seanlisle1Friday, October 6, 2017 (1:02am)Saturday, March 27, 2021 (11:49am)
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Excavation Mapping Magnus Outreach

Mapping Magnus dig update

The team from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute and local community volunteers are now beginning to bring the Mapping Magnus dig in Palace Village to a close.

by seanlisle1Thursday, October 5, 2017 (1:19am)Saturday, March 27, 2021 (11:51am)
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The Earl's Palace. Birsay, Orkney.
Excavation Mapping Magnus Outreach

Mapping Magnus community excavation – Palace village, Birsay

A team from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute together with community volunteers will commence the excavation phase of the exciting community archaeology ‘Mapping Magnus’ project by digging test pits around the medieval site of the Bishops Palace.

by seanlisle1Tuesday, September 19, 2017 (1:19am)Saturday, March 27, 2021 (11:46am)
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Mapping Magnus Outreach

Birsay community archaeology coastal survey – 6-8 September 2017

Join a team of archaeologists, led by Dave Reay, from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, recording the eroding sites from Palace Village to Buckquoy on 6, 7 & 8th September 2017.

by seanlisle1Friday, September 1, 2017 (4:50am)Tuesday, August 24, 2021 (9:35am)
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Archaeology Mapping Magnus Outreach

Mapping Magnus Dates for the Diary 2

by Dan LeeWednesday, August 30, 2017 (12:30am)Wednesday, September 6, 2017 (5:15am)
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Excavation Outreach Rousay Skaill Farmstead

A summer of archaeology in Rousay

Dan Lee, Dr Ingrid Mainland, Dr Jen Harland and Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, together with a team of local volunteers and schoolchildren, embarked on a programme of archaeology in Rousay, Orkney over the summer 2017.

by seanlisle1Tuesday, August 15, 2017 (11:09pm)Monday, March 15, 2021 (11:52am)
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Outreach Skaill Farmstead

Project update: Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre, Land and Sea

Work at Skaill farmstead, Westness, Rousay, got under way last week with some building survey, walkover survey and a workshop with the Rousay Community School.

by seanlisle1Tuesday, June 20, 2017 (4:17am)Monday, March 15, 2021 (11:58am)
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Outreach Skaill Farmstead Viking/Norse

New project on Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre awarded funding

Rousay Heritage Trust has received a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) Stories, Stones and Bones grant for the Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre Land and Sea – Exploring Island Heritage, Past and Present, in Rousay, Orkney.

by seanlisle1Thursday, May 18, 2017 (6:45am)Thursday, April 22, 2021 (3:50pm)
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‘Listening to the Piers’ – new project for Stromness launches

The Stromness Museum is celebrating a £9,700 Heritage Lottery Fund grant as part of the Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017.

by seanlisle1Tuesday, May 16, 2017 (12:36am)Tuesday, March 30, 2021 (4:58pm)
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Archaeology Outreach

Repair work starts at the Skibageo Hoose

Work has started on the repair project at the Skibageo Hoose – a boat house situated high on a cliff near the Brough of Birsay on the exposed north coast of Orkney’s West Mainland.

by seanlisle1Tuesday, April 18, 2017 (1:21am)Tuesday, March 30, 2021 (5:02pm)
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Archaeology Fieldwalking Outreach

Community archaeology in Orkney- fieldwalking starts soon

by seanlisle1Monday, February 27, 2017 (6:49am)Tuesday, March 30, 2021 (5:05pm)
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