‘St Magnus Houp’ – can you help us track down this elusive placename?
‘St Magnus Houp’ – can you help our research team track down this elusive placename? #thinkuhi #research #orkney
Category: Research
Will ye go to Flanders? Radio programme explores Scottish links with the Low Countries
The trading links between Scotland and Flanders is the subject of a documentary on BBC Radio Scotland on Friday morning, April 2.
Opportunity for volunteers to get involved in Orkney trade project
The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute is looking for volunteers interested in a new project researching early trade in Orkney.
Researchers suggest Stonehenge’s first stone circle was transplanted from Welsh hillside
Professor Colin Richards, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, is co-author of a new paper proposing that a stone circle in Wales was the source of the first megaliths erected at the site of Stonehenge.
Video: Whisky distilling in the Highlands and Islands: missing pieces of our post-medieval archaeology
Drawing on historical and archaeological evidence, Darroch demonstrates how his research has attempted to integrate the distilling of whisky into the archaeology of the region and how the historical archaeology of distilling fits into an expanding understanding of rural commercial practice.
Viking boat burials in the spotlight at Friday’s free online seminar
From the massive and rich ship burials found in Scandinavia, to the small rowing boats used in boat burials on Scottish isles, the distinctive Viking burial rite making use of a boat to carry the dead into the next life has always fascinated.
New Masters project researching archaeological benefits of roadworks
The archaeological benefits of roadwork developments in Scotland is the subject of a new Masters by Research (MRes) project funded by Transport Scotland.
‘Learning from Northern people’ seminar on Friday
What the people of the Arctic can teach us to help respond to climate change is the subject of a University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute research seminar this Friday, November 27.
Another Archaeology Institute PhD student celebrates viva success
Jasmijn Sybenga, a student at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, has passed her PhD viva, with no corrections.
PhD candidate sought for Severn valley settlement research project
The Medieval Settlement Research Group (MSRG), in conjunction with the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, is seeking a PhD candidate for its application for an M4C collaborative doctoral award: Dispersed Settlement in the West Midlands’ Severn Valley: An Interdisciplinary Approach.