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Category: Skaill Farmstead

Excavation Skaill Farmstead Student Stories

Skaill farm – a student’s experience of the excavation field school

Undergraduate student Sarah James reports on her experience over the two-week excavation field school at Skaill farm, Rousay. 

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, August 21, 2023 (8:42am)Saturday, August 19, 2023 (2:44pm)
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Excavation Skaill Farmstead

Skaill farm excavation – week three update

As the trenches at Skaill farm, in Rousay, are closed for another year, project co-director Dan Lee reflects on another successful season.

by Sigurd TowrieSaturday, August 12, 2023 (12:25pm)Monday, August 14, 2023 (5:58pm)
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Excavation Skaill Farmstead

Skaill farm excavation – week two update

The end of our second week finished with a glorious day of sunshine and the site open day on Saturday, enjoyed by over 60 visitors from Rousay, Orkney and beyond.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, July 25, 2023 (10:22pm)Tuesday, July 25, 2023 (10:22pm)
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Excavation Skaill Farmstead

Head to Rousay this Saturday for 2023 open day at Skaill farm dig

The ongoing excavations at Skaill farm, Rousay, are hosting an open day this Saturday, July 22, 2023.

by Sigurd TowrieThursday, July 20, 2023 (7:21am)Tuesday, August 22, 2023 (10:12am)
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Skaill Farm (Dan Lee)
Excavation Skaill Farmstead

Skaill farm excavation – week one update

The end of the first week at Skaill saw the trenches reopened and new excavations started, focusing on the range of buildings below the surviving 19th century farm – the earliest phases of which could be late medieval.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, July 17, 2023 (9:18pm)Monday, July 17, 2023 (9:48pm)
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Skaill Farm Sign (Sigurd Towrie)
Excavation Skaill Farmstead

Back to Skaill farm for three-week excavation

A team from the UHI Archaeology Institute team is back at the multi-period settlement site at Skaill farm, Rousay, today for a three-week excavation.

by Sigurd TowrieSunday, July 9, 2023 (8:36am)Sunday, July 9, 2023 (9:18am)
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Skaill Excavation, Rousay
Excavation Skaill Farmstead

Skaill excavation places available to Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre residents

If you live on the islands of Rousay, Egilsay or Wyre and would like to take part in this year’s excavation at Skaill farm get in touch.

by Sigurd TowrieSaturday, June 24, 2023 (10:07am)Saturday, June 24, 2023 (10:10am)
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The Cairns broch from above. (Bobby Friel)
Excavation Ness of Brodgar Skaill Farmstead Swartigill The Cairns

Excavation at The Cairns gets this summer’s dig season under way

Our 2023 dig season kicks off today, with a full team returning to The Cairns Iron Age site.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, June 12, 2023 (7:30am)Monday, June 12, 2023 (11:58am)
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  • Skaill farm – a student’s experience of the excavation field school
    Monday, August 21, 2023 (8:42am)
  • Skaill farm excavation – week three update
    Saturday, August 12, 2023 (12:25pm)
  • Skaill farm excavation – week two update
    Tuesday, July 25, 2023 (10:22pm)
  • Head to Rousay this Saturday for 2023 open day at Skaill farm dig
    Thursday, July 20, 2023 (7:21am)
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    Monday, July 17, 2023 (9:18pm)
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