Category Archives: Medieval

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Enhancing the schedule of monuments for Orkney

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New guidebook celebrates Orkney’s monumental heritage

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Orkney landscape project shortlisted for national archaeological award

The Viking Age longhouse at Skaill, Sandwick. (Sigurd Towrie)
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Archaeologists return to the Brough of Deerness

The Brough of Deerness. (Picture: Sigurd Towrie)
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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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Medieval artefacts found in East Mainland

Picture: Frank Bradford
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Oxford archaeologists focus on Birsay mound

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Fresh funding for research into submerged stone remains

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Were there Anglo-Saxons in Orkney before the Vikings?

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Viking settlement helps understand history of Skaill’s landscape

Picture: Sigurd Towrie
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Viking settlement helps understand history of Skaill’s landscape

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Did Gulf Stream disruption plunge Orkney into chaos and famine?

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Calls for the return of 16th century Duke of Orkney’s remains

James Hepburn - the first and last Duke of Orkney.
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Reconstruction of medieval Westray house complete

Quoygrew, Westray
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Human burial recovered from South Ronaldsay shore

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As excavation finishes, work begins to open Viking age house remains to the public

Aerial view of Quoygrew Viking longhouse, Westray, Orkney
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Oxford team bid to solve mystery of Sandwick mound

Picture: Sigurd Towrie

Medieval ring found in Kirkwall garden

(Picture courtesy of Orkney Library Photographic Archive)

Skeletal remains rescued from eroding Medieval cemetery

Skull erodes from Medieval cemetery in Orkney (Picture: Sigurd Towrie)
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Quoygrew project completes work on series of buildings occupied for nearly a millennia

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