Smerquoy excavation diary – Entry Three

A view of the structure from above.

Smerquoy excavation diary – Entry Two

A busy, and finally wet day but great archaeology on site…

Smerquoy excavation diary - Entry One

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Digital dwelling at Skara Brae

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Prehistoric walled complex revealed on Firth farmland

The results of the geophysics scan by Christopher Gee of ORCA and James Moore of Archaeology Dept, Orkney College UHI. The houses are clearly visible and appear to be surrounded by a ditch or wall.
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Summer excavation dates

One of the Neolithic houses at Ha'Breck, Wyre (Picture: ORCA)
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Enhancing the schedule of monuments for Orkney

Midhowe Broch, Rousay
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Eight projects share OIC’s £40,000 archaeology fund

Visitors at The Cairns excavation, in South Ronaldsay, in 2012.

Ness of Brodgar excavation dates 2013

Picture: Sigurd Towrie

Second place for Orkney World Heritage Site in UK’s top ten

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Conservation work on Sanday symbol stone complete

The Sanday symbol stone. (Frank Bradford)

Runes – separating fact from fiction

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Back to the USA for Ness of Brodgar lecture tour

Nick Card, senior projects manager at the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology.
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Environmental data from Howe excavation brought together for new website

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New guidebook celebrates Orkney’s monumental heritage

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Another six weeks in Orkney’s Neolithic heartland…

(Picture: Adam Stanford/www.aerial-cam.co.uk)

Third figurine from Links of Noltland dig

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Virtual tour of Maeshowe goes online

Picture: Sigurd Towrie

Skara Brae in Historic Scotland’s top five list

One of the “dressers” in Skara Brae. (Sigurd Towrie)

Painting a picture of Scapa Flow, 10,000 years ago

Scapa Flow in 8,000BC — a landlocked bay accessible only by a narrow passage between what would become Stanger Head, on Flotta, and Hoxa Head.