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Category: Pictish Stone

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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Iron Age Pictish Stone Sanday

Pictish Cross found in Sanday, Orkney

Orkney’s county archaeologist, Julie Gibson, features in the above video alongside an 8th-10th Century AD Pictish symbol stone found in Sanday last month.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, August 17, 2021 (9:46am)Friday, October 28, 2022 (10:06am)
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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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