Category Archives: Viking

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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.

Runes – separating fact from fiction

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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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Orkney landscape project shortlisted for national archaeological award

The Viking Age longhouse at Skaill, Sandwick. (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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Rousay’s heritage snatched from the sea

Students removing beach stones to reveal the site
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Archaeologists return to the Brough of Deerness

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

Picture: Frank Bradford
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Eight research projects share OIC’s £50k archaeology fund

Excavations on the Brough of Deerness, Orkney.

Delving into the history of ‘things’

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The unfolding story of the Brough of Deerness

The Brough of Deerness. (Picture: Sigurd Towrie)
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Oxford archaeologists focus on Birsay mound

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Excavators return to Skaill farmstead

Revealing a Norse farmstead.
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Long-awaited dig begins unravelling the secrets of the Brough of Deerness

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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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Reconstruction of medieval Westray house complete

Quoygrew, Westray