
New book to bring Viking studies into 21st century
Professor Ingrid Mainland is one of the authors in a major new publication on Viking and Norse Age Scotland.
Professor Ingrid Mainland is one of the authors in a major new publication on Viking and Norse Age Scotland.
Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon and UHI Archaeology Institute PhD student Jenny Murray will be among the speakers at the St Magnus Symposium in Orkney on Friday.
Professor Ingrid Mainland, of the UHI Archaeology Institute, will be joined by Dr Colleen Batey next week for a talk on feasting in Norse Orkney.
Maeshowe’s runes featured in April’s UHI Archaeology Institute online seminar, which saw Dr Karen Langsholt Holmqvist present her research on medieval runic graffiti.
Dr Ragnhild Ljosland is one of the guests on a BBC Radio 3 broadcast focusing on runes on Sunday evening.
Excavation at the multi-period settlement site at Skaill, Rousay, resumes in July.
Orkney Viking week is set to go ahead from September 9-19, with both face-to-face and online activities on the programme.
Women and men of the Viking Age is the subject of Professor Alexandra Sanmark’s inaugural professorial lecture next month.
A talk on Norse period Orphir kicks off the Scottish Society for Northern Studies new season of online seminars next week.
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has agreed to fund post-excavation analysis on two Viking graves from the Orkney island of Papa Westray.
Overhead views of the Skaill site, Rousay, on the penultimate day of the 2021 excavation.
We are starting to wrap things up at Skaill and the Wirk.
Photographic gallery from Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay.
The second week is proving really productive at Skaill as we get down into the lower horizons inside and outside the farm buildings.
It’s the start if the second week at Skaill and The Wirk.
Drone footage from last week’s excavations at Skaill and the Wirk courtesy of Bobby Friel (@takethehighview).