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The Ness of Brodgar — a Neolithic tribal meeting place? - Dr Colin Richard's third article of the season looks at the Ness of Brodgar. |
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Laser scanning the Heart of Neolithic Orkney - A project to create digital models of the monuments within Orkney’s World Heritage Site, using laser scanners, began this week. |
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Investigating the Early Neolithic on Eday - A second article by Dr Colin Richards, this time on the early Neolithic settlement at Green, Eday. |
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The Links of Noltland: An illuminating excavation - Dr Colin Richards' article on the latest excavations in Westray. |
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Stromness earth-house hints at major settlement - The chance discovery of a prehistoric earth-house in Stromness is pointing at a substantial settlement by the shore of the Stenness loch. |
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Coastal erosion helping fill in the historical gaps - an ongoing project is taking advantage of the county’s notorious coastal erosion to fill in the blanks in our understanding of Orkney’s history. |
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Neolithic goes technicolour as painted walls
uncovered on the Ness of Brodgar |
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Second figurine found in Westray - A second figurine has been uncovered at the ongoing excavations at the Links of Notland in Westray. |
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The curious case of the Cairns 'broch' - It’s definitely broch-like but is it a broch? That’s the question still facing the archaeologists at the ongoing excavations at the Cairns in South Ronaldsay. |
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Untangling the history of the Cantick mound - Another season of excavations at Cantick, South Walls, has concluded, following the continued investigation of a prehistoric burial mound. |
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Excavations resume at the Links of Noltland -
Archaeologists are hoping the dig – which last year revealed the Orkney Venus figurine, currently shortlisted for a British Archaeological Award – will uncover more fascinating finds to tell us more about how our ancestors lived on Westray. |
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'Orkney Venus' shortlisted for best archaeological discovery — The Neolithic figurine, uncovered in Westray last summer, has made the top three for the Best Archaeological Discovery category in the 2010 British Archaeological Awards. |
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Scar plaque back in Orkney — A 1,100 year-old Viking plaque is back in Orkney this week after being on loan to the Jorvik Viking Centre in York since February. |
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Pictures and Papers in Honour of Daphne Home Lorimer MBE — originally published on the Orkney Archaeological Trust website in 2004, now relocated to Orkneyjar. |
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Orkney Venus back home for the summer — Scotland’s earliest human face, the so-called “Orkney Venus” has returned, temporarily, to Orkney this summer as part of a tour of Scotland. |
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Scar items heading to Jorvik — A collection of items found in the Viking boat burial at Scar, Sanday, are to go on show in York. |
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Fresh funding for research into submerged stone remains - A research team, which discovered stone remains on the seabed in the Bay of Firth, has been awarded additional funding to continue its research. |
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From Brodgar to Harvard — Orkney archaeologist Nick Card is preparing to jet off for a whistle-stop USA lecture tour. |
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With survey work complete, WWII battery restoration can begin - With archaeological surveys now complete, work to restore the World War Two Ness Battery, in Stromness, is expected to get under way later this year. |
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OIC cash for archaeological projects — Thirteen projects look set to receive money from Orkney Islands Council’s fund for archaeological investigations in 2010. |
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Delving into the history of 'things' — Orkney and Shetland are to be research sites for a major project looking at the way the Viking communities governed themselves and strengthened their groups. |
