Archaeology Orkney
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This Blog has been created by The Archaeology Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands in beautiful Orkney. We aim to add features and news about our work on the islands and further afield on a regular basis.
Archaeology Orkney
7h ago
Professor Dame Mary Beard is in Orkney next month where she will open the Ness of Brodgar exhibition and be shown around some of the sites by UHI Archaeology Institute staff.
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Archaeology Orkney
3d ago
A group of postgraduate students were at the Howe of Hoxa, South Ronaldsay, last week as part of their archaeological and geophysical survey module.
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Archaeology Orkney
5d ago
We’re delighted to announce a fully funded PhD opportunity focusing on the “blackhouses” - Taighean Tughaidh - of the Western Isles.
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Archaeology Orkney
5d ago
The UHI Archaeology Institute and Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre Development Trust (REWDT) hosted a field trip to Rousay earlier this month.
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Archaeology Orkney
1w ago
The Scottish Community Heritage Alliance (SCHA) is looking for a Grassroots Heritage in Scotland project officer.
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Archaeology Orkney
1w ago
Dr Antonia Thomas has been shortlisted for the Profile Books and Alexander Aitken Ideas Prize for the best debut trade non-fiction proposal from an academic.
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Archaeology Orkney
1w ago
A researcher analysing lipids on Ness of Brodgar pottery sherds, has been awarded the Royal Archaeological Institute (RAI) prize for science on the archaeology of Britain and Ireland.
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Archaeology Orkney
2w ago
Eighteen-year-old Mila hails from Oslo, Norway, and has made her way across the North Sea to study a BSc (Hons) Archaeological Science with us.
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Archaeology Orkney
2w ago
Some new photographs added to the Tombs of the Isles page after a visit to check some of the puzzling features in the Taversoe Tuick.
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Archaeology Orkney
3w ago
Just before Easter, the parish of Firth, in Orkney’s West Mainland, was the destination for a student fieldtrip looking at the finer details of walkover surveys.
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