Post-excavation funding will see work begin on Orkney Viking burials
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has agreed to fund post-excavation analysis on two Viking graves from the Orkney island of Papa Westray.
Category: Viking/Norse
Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay: Day Nine
Overhead views of the Skaill site, Rousay, on the penultimate day of the 2021 excavation.
Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay: Day Eight
We are starting to wrap things up at Skaill and the Wirk.
A day in Rousay…
Photographic gallery from Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay.
Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay: Day Seven
The second week is proving really productive at Skaill as we get down into the lower horizons inside and outside the farm buildings.
Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay: Day Six
It’s the start if the second week at Skaill and The Wirk.
Rousay excavations from above
Drone footage from last week’s excavations at Skaill and the Wirk courtesy of Bobby Friel (@takethehighview).
Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay: Day Five
At the end of the first week of the 2021 season, here is today’s excavation update from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute’s Dan Lee.
Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay: Day Four
Today’s excavation update from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute’s Dan Lee.
Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay: Day Three
Wednesday’s excavation update from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute’s Dan Lee.
Skaill and the Wirk, Rousay: Day Two
Today’s Rousay excavation update from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute’s Dan Lee.
Archaeologists return to Rousay for Skaill excavation
A team from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute will be back in Rousay on Monday to resume excavation at the Skaill farmstead.
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.
UHI academics contribute to international Viking DNA research project
Two academics from the University of the Highlands and Islands were part of an international team of researchers involved in a project hailed as “the world’s largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons”.