Heading east and west for first student fieldtrip of the new semester
Our first fieldtrip of the new semester took place yesterday, with some of our new undergraduate students joined by existing postgrads for an introduction to Orkney’s archaeology.
Category: Student Stories
Student’s Neolithic pottery exhibition on display at the Orkney Museum
An exhibition on Neolithic pottery, curated by student Lois Combs, is running at the Orkney Museum, Kirkwall, until September 30.
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.
Students try their hand at walkover surveys during Wasdale walkabout
The parish of Firth, in Orkney’s West Mainland, was the destination for Friday’s student fieldtrip looking at the finer details of walkover surveys.
Survey module takes students to a sunny Howe of Hoxa
A group of postgraduate students have been in South Ronaldsay this week carrying out survey work around the Howe of Hoxa.
Easter fieldtrip 2023 – day three
The third, and final, day of our fieldtrip saw us depart Helmsdale early in the morning and head south.
Easter fieldtrip 2023 – day two
Day two of the 2023 Student Easter fieldtrip.
Students’ Easter fieldtrip under way in Helmsdale
Students from the UHI Archaeology Institute made their way to Helmsdale, Sutherland, yesterday for this year’s Easter Fieldtrip.
Postgrad students go fieldwalking in the shadow of Maeshowe
Postgraduate students were out fieldwalking in Orkney’s West Mainland last week – their focus a newly ploughed field to the north-east of Maeshow
PhD thesis earns prize for UHI Archaeology Institute researcher
Dr Magdalena Blanz has been awarded the BAG-Förderpreis 2021 by the Austrian Society for Bioarchaeology (BAG) for her PhD dissertation.
Staff and students in Elgin for 2023’s first conference
Staff and students from the UHI Archaeology Institute have been in Elgin this week for the 2023 UHI Research Conference.
Archaeology student named Orkney College UHI Student of the Year
Archaeology student Francesca Meneghetti has been named Orkney College UHI’s 2022 Student of the Year.
This year’s archaeology special award winners
Three archaeology students were recognised at the 2021 Orkney College special awards ceremony this week.
‘Fuel for the Dead’: institute student’s scholarship presentation available to download
UHI Archaeology Institute undergraduate Sara Marinoni was successful in securing a Carnegie Vacation Scholarship this year and her final presentation is now available online.