‘Digging for Britain’ episode featuring Orkney excavations online now
The Digging for Britain programme featuring the Orkney excavations at The Cairns and Blowmuir is now available on BBC iPlayer.
2025 dig dates set . . .
Dates set for The Cairns and Skaill farm excavations.
Link: Orkney’s archaeology steals the show again
Three archaeological digs in supported by Orkney Islands Council have captured slots in popular UK-wide programmes this winter.
Video: Marking the winter solstice at Maeshowe chambered cairn
Today, Saturday, December 21, we celebrate the winter solstice – a day intextricably linked to Maeshowe, a Neolithic chambered cairn in Stenness.
PhD student’s presentation highly commended at TAG 2024 meeting
A paper delivered by UHI Archaeology Institute PhD candidate Anna Estaroth has been highly commended in the 2024 Don Henson Award.
Ness of Brodgar faunal assemblage outlined at Oxford environmental archaeology conference
Dr Julia Cussans presented a well-received paper on the animal bone assemblage at the Ness at the 44th Association for Environmental Archaeology conference in Oxford.
January date for The Cairns on new series of ‘Digging for Britain’
The Cairns dig will feature in Digging for Britain TV series on January 9, 2025.
Time Team shines a light on the Swandro rescue excavation
Time Team’s Dr John Gater visits the Swandro excavation in Rousay.
Start the new year with our next Archaeology and Local Studies course
Our next Archaeology and Local Studies gets under way in January, so if you’re interested in learning a bit more about the archaeology of your area, and archaeology generally, get in touch.
Passionate about the past? Take your interest to a new level with our MLitt Archaeological Studies course
Our MLitt in Archaeological Studies is accepting students to start in January 2025.
Vote now – stone circle guide in running for Book of the Year award
Professor Colin Richards latest book, Stone Circles: A Field Guide, has been nominated for Book of the Year in the 2025 Current Archaeology Awards.
Surveying Shapinsay’s industrial heritage
The survey report on the Balfour Village gasometer, carried out as part of ORCA’s North Isles industrial heritage project.
Another three Archaeology Institute graduates on the path to a PhD
Three of our Contemporary Art and Archaeology MA graduates have started their PhD research.
Video: Back to Auskerry for a look at more archaeological sites…
Part two of Orkney county archaeologist Paul Sharman’s trip to view/record the archaeological heritage of Auskerry.
Art & Archaeology student awarded SSA prize
An amazing achievement – Susan Pearson has been awarded the SSA Prize from the Society of Scottish Artists.
Eday site surveys get the industrial heritage ball rolling
The first of the ORCA Industrial heritage surveys are now online – Fersness quarry and Redhouse in Eday.
Busy time for MA Contemporary Art & Archaeology at CHAT!
Earlier this month, UHI Archaeology Institute staff and students were at the University of Plymouth to attend the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) conference.
Giving voice to witchcraft accused – Raggie’s article to feature in new book
An article on the Orkney witchcraft trials by Dr Ragnhild Ljosland features in a new book due out next March.