Category Archives: Iron Age

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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.

Conservation work on Sanday symbol stone complete

The Sanday symbol stone. (Frank Bradford)
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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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Eight Orkney projects to benefit from a share of OIC’s £50,000 archaeology fund

The ongoing excavation of the Iron Age site at Cairns, South Ronaldsay. (Sigurd Towrie)
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Dig team find proof there were Picts on the Brough of Deerness before the vikings

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Sanday symbol stone is a first for Orkney

Builder Justin Thomas, with the symbol stone visible on the floor.
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Rousay’s heritage snatched from the sea

Students removing beach stones to reveal the site
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In search of Sanday’s lost ‘coronation stone’

Somewhere in Kettletoft Bay - a photograph of the Sanday "footprint stone" taken in 2008.
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Eight research projects share OIC’s £50k archaeology fund

Excavations on the Brough of Deerness, Orkney.
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Coastal erosion helping fill in the historical gaps

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Stromness earth-house hints at major prehistoric settlement

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The curious case of the Cairns ‘broch’

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The unfolding story of the Brough of Deerness

The Brough of Deerness. (Picture: Sigurd Towrie)

Unravelling centuries of Iron Age activity

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Excavation team return to South Ronaldsay to tackle archaeological jigsaw puzzle

The remains of Structure B. (Sigurd Towrie)
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Long-awaited dig begins unravelling the secrets of the Brough of Deerness

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Iron Age roundhouse under investigation

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