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		<title>Ness of Brodgar in the spotlight at the Orkney Museum</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/04/30/ness-of-brodgar-in-the-spotlight-at-the-orkney-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neolithic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next Saturday, May 5, sees the opening of the new summer exhibition at the Orkney Museum, Tankerness House, Kirkwall. Ness of Brodgar: The Heart of Neolithic Orkney is a chance to find out more about the archaeological site that everyone it talking about. The Orkney Museum has worked closely with the Orkney Research Centre for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sixth chamber in Banks chambered tomb?</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/04/20/sixth-chamber-in-banks-chambered-tomb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/04/20/sixth-chamber-in-banks-chambered-tomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chambered Tomb]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chambered tomb at Banks, in South Ronaldsay, continues to throw up yet more surprises, including the discovery of what appears to be a sixth chamber within the structure. Hamish Mowatt originally discovered the tomb by the car park of the Skerries Bistro, at Banks, in 2010. Speaking to The Orcadian newspaper this week, Mr Mowatt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability and Heritage conference: Kirkwall, Orkney, May 29-31</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/04/19/sustainability-and-heritage-conference-kirkwall-orkney-may-29-31/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/04/19/sustainability-and-heritage-conference-kirkwall-orkney-may-29-31/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bronze Age]]></category>
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		<title>Prehistoric technology weekend at the Tomb of the Eagles</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/04/03/prehistoric-technology-weekend-at-the-tomb-of-the-eagles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/04/03/prehistoric-technology-weekend-at-the-tomb-of-the-eagles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neolithic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chambered Tomb]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tomb of the Eagles, in South Ronaldsay, will play host to a &#8220;prehistoric technologist&#8221; this weekend, with Mark Keighley coming up from Aberdeenshire for four days of demonstration of ancient craft. Mark, one of the country’s most experienced practitioners in the reconstruction of ancient tools, will be hard at work making, and polishing, stone axes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated Ness of Brodgar site plan online</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/03/27/updated-ness-of-brodgar-site-plan-online-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/03/27/updated-ness-of-brodgar-site-plan-online-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ness of Brodgar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With just over three months to go until excavations resume at the Ness of Brodgar, a revised plan, showing the structures on site, has been added to the Ness of Brodgar excavation blog. The 2012 excavations are due to begin on July 16, running until August 24. Site tours will commence two days after excavations resume, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Orkney projects to benefit from a share of OIC’s £50,000 archaeology fund</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/03/01/eight-orkney-projects-to-benefit-from-a-share-of-oics-50000-archaeology-fund/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/03/01/eight-orkney-projects-to-benefit-from-a-share-of-oics-50000-archaeology-fund/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=1388</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Eight archaeological projects in the county are set to benefit from a share of £50,000 funding from Orkney Islands Council this year. This OIC&#8217;s 2012 fund for archaeological investigations will be divided between four Mainland and four isles sites. Councillors on the development and regeneration committee agreed that the initial allocation of £40,000 should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another award for the Ness of Brodgar excavations</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/02/29/another-award-for-the-ness-of-brodgar-excavations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/02/29/another-award-for-the-ness-of-brodgar-excavations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The excavation on the Ness of Brodgar has been named the winner of the 2012 Andante Travels Archaeology Award. The Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology/Orkney College UHI project was runner-up in the international award scheme in 2008, and went on to take the Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year title last year. Previous winners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Things — Justice and gender under the microscope</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/02/28/womens-things-justice-and-gender-under-the-microscope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/02/28/womens-things-justice-and-gender-under-the-microscope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
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		<title>Visitors vote Skara Brae a must-see site</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/02/13/visitors-vote-skara-brae-a-must-see-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/02/13/visitors-vote-skara-brae-a-must-see-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neolithic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandwick]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visitors to Skara Brae have voted it one of the &#8220;must-see&#8221; attractions in the British Isles. The Neolithic settlement, in the West Mainland parish of Sandwick, is the best preserved group of prehistoric houses in Western Europe and was one of only eight visitor attractions in the UK to receive a merit award, as voted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ness of Brodgar Excavation Dates 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/02/01/ness-of-brodgar-excavation-dates-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/02/01/ness-of-brodgar-excavation-dates-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 excavations on the Ness of Brodgar are due to begin on July 16, running until August 24. Site tours will commence two days after excavations resume, on July 18, running until August 22. Details of times will follow in due course. As in previous years, an online excavation diary will be maintained at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrecting the Neolithic priesthood&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/01/10/resurrecting-orkneys-neolithic-priesthood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/01/10/resurrecting-orkneys-neolithic-priesthood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barnhouse]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=1361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ness of Brodgar discoveries vindicate 35-year-old theory, says prehistorian The remarkable archaeological discoveries on the Ness of Brodgar are proof that an elite group of astronomer priests once held sway over Orkney. That&#8217;s according to Dr Euan MacKie, an archaeologist and prehistorian, who visited the ongoing excavations on the Ness  last summer. In 1977, Dr [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orkney landscape project shortlisted for national archaeological award</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/12/08/orkney-landscape-project-shortlisted-for-national-archaeological-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/12/08/orkney-landscape-project-shortlisted-for-national-archaeological-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the Ness of Brodgar’s win earlier this year, a second archaeological project in Orkney is in the running for the title of 2012 Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year. Settlement under the Sand has been looking at the landscape around Birsay and Snusgar, by Skaill Bay, in Sandwick, where one of the focuses has been the finely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anonymous benefactor gifts Ness of Brodgar property to the people of Orkney</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/11/23/anonymous-benefactor-gifts-ness-of-brodgar-property-to-the-people-of-orkney/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/11/23/anonymous-benefactor-gifts-ness-of-brodgar-property-to-the-people-of-orkney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An anonymous benefactor, with a strong interest in the archaeologial excavations on the Ness of Brodgar, has gifted a property in Stenness to the people of Orkney. The house, Lochview, is immediately adjacent to the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) excavations and, over the years, it has become clear to the archaeologists that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radiocarbon dates point to a millennium of activity on the Ness of Brodgar</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/10/27/radiocarbon-dates-point-to-a-millennium-of-activity-on-the-ness-of-brodgar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/10/27/radiocarbon-dates-point-to-a-millennium-of-activity-on-the-ness-of-brodgar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ness of Brodgar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The site of the prehistoric complex on the Ness of Brodgar was in use for around 1,000 years. New radiocarbon dates from two areas of the ongoing excavations show the Stenness site was occupied from at least 3200BC to 2300BC. The earliest date came from deposits under the “Lesser Wall of Brodgar” — the southern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do survey results show a massive prehistoric monument under the water of the Stenness Loch?</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/10/03/do-survey-results-show-a-massive-prehistoric-monument-under-the-water-of-the-stenness-loch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/10/03/do-survey-results-show-a-massive-prehistoric-monument-under-the-water-of-the-stenness-loch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Survey work in the Loch of Stenness has revealed what could be a massive prehistoric monument lying underwater to the south of the Ring of Brodgar. The underwater “anomaly” has come to light in a project looking at prehistoric sea level change in Orkney. The project, The Rising Tide: Submerged Landscape of Orkney, is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New finds in ‘cathedral’ building reignite age-old question – Stone Age dresser or altar?</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/09/16/new-finds-in-%e2%80%98cathedral%e2%80%99-building-reignite-age-old-question-%e2%80%93-stone-age-dresser-or-altar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/09/16/new-finds-in-%e2%80%98cathedral%e2%80%99-building-reignite-age-old-question-%e2%80%93-stone-age-dresser-or-altar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barnhouse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Skara Brae]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“A curious feature which is found in [Skara Brae’s] chambers three and six is an arrangement of two stone shelves, erected one above the other and abutting against one of the stone walls. “They remind one of double berths in a ship, but they were used, more probably, for storing pottery utensils in, when not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dig team find proof there were Picts on the Brough of Deerness before the vikings</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/08/11/dig-team-find-proof-there-were-picts-on-the-brough-before-the-vikings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/08/11/dig-team-find-proof-there-were-picts-on-the-brough-before-the-vikings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iron Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brough of Deerness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deerness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pictish]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=1277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The story of life on the viking settlement on the Brough of Deerness, its purpose and the people who lived there, is gradually beginning to unfold. However, as the third season of excavations on the site drew to a close last month, archaeologists say it has yet to give up all its secrets. One of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About a (Brodgar) Boy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/08/02/about-a-brodgar-boy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/08/02/about-a-brodgar-boy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neolithic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links of Noltland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ness of Brodgar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orkney Venus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stenness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Heritage Site]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=1268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First there was the Orkney Venus – or the Westray Wife, as she’s known in Orkney. And now we’ve got the Brodgar Boy – a small, Stone Age figurine found at the ongoing Ness of Brodgar excavations in Stenness. What was hailed as Scotland’s earliest representation of a human was unearthed in Westray in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sanday symbol stone is a first for Orkney</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/07/20/sanday-symbol-stone-is-a-first-for-orkney/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/07/20/sanday-symbol-stone-is-a-first-for-orkney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iron Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pictish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[symbol stone]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=1239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A 1,200 year old carved Pictish stone cross has been uncovered in a property in Sanday. The decorated stone slab was found by Elliot Troop while renovating a house near Lady village. The Pictish symbol stone was lying prone, under the floor of the property, and appears to have been damaged during the construction of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back on the Ness of Brodgar&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/07/18/back-on-the-ness-of-brodgar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/07/18/back-on-the-ness-of-brodgar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neolithic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ness of Brodgar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stenness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Heritage Site]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 2011 excavations on the Ness of Brodgar resumed today, Monday, July 18, and run until August 24. As in previous years, an online excavation diary can be found at www.orkneyjar.com/nessofbrodgar. Daily tours of the site begin on Wednesday, July 20, at 11am and 3pm.]]></description>
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		<title>Rousay&#8217;s heritage snatched from the sea</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/07/14/1225/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/07/14/1225/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iron Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[erosion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NABO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rousay]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=1225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Archaeologists use latest technology to record the exciting finds of prehistoric and Viking remains at Swandro, in Rousay, before the site disappears into the sea. A team of archaeologists from Bradford University and Orkney College UHI are investigating eroding archaeological remains along the coast of Rousay, as part of the international Islands of Change research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeologists return to the Brough of Deerness</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/06/21/archaeologists-back-on-brough-of-deerness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/06/21/archaeologists-back-on-brough-of-deerness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medieval]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brough of Deerness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deerness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=1169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Archaeologists are back at a Viking Age village on the Brough of Deerness this week, for a third season of excavations on the rocky islet. A team, led by Dr James Barrett, of the University of Cambridge’s McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, were due back on the Brough from Monday, June 20, finishing, six weeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated Ness of Brodgar site plan and 3d panoramas online</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/06/19/updated-ness-of-brodgar-site-plan-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/06/19/updated-ness-of-brodgar-site-plan-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neolithic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ness of Brodgar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stenness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Heritage Site]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=1178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With just a month to go until this year’s excavations begin on the Ness of Brodgar, an updated plan, showing all the structures on site, has been added to the Ness of Brodgar excavation blog. In addition, I’ve added links to three absolutely stunning 3d panoramas created, last year, by one of the diggers, Ken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In search of Sanday&#8217;s lost &#8216;coronation stone&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/06/03/in-search-of-sandays-lost-coronation-stone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/06/03/in-search-of-sandays-lost-coronation-stone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iron Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medieval]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanday]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=1019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The hunt is on for a possible Iron Age, carved stone in Sanday. A visitor to the island, back in 2008, photographed the stone, which features a carved footprint. She has since reported it to county archaeologist Julie Gibson, who is of the opinion that the carving is genuine. But unfortunately, the exact location of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does flint axe picked up on an Orkney shoreline predate the Ice Age?</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/05/26/flint-axe-found-on-orkney-shore-predates-the-ice-age/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/05/26/flint-axe-found-on-orkney-shore-predates-the-ice-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 10:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Palaeolithic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[artefacts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Ola]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A flint handaxe, recovered on a stretch of shore in St Ola, could be the oldest man-made artefact found in Orkney to date. Dating from the Palaeolithic period of prehistory, the axe could be anything between 100,000 and 450,000 years old. Palaeolithic axes are incredibly rare, with fewer than ten being found in Scotland. Around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medieval artefacts found in East Mainland</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/05/26/medieval-artefacts-found-in-east-mainland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/05/26/medieval-artefacts-found-in-east-mainland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 09:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medieval]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[artefacts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the Palaeolithic handaxe detailed here, a rune-inscribed strip of lead and a medieval ecclesiastic seal have been passed to the county archaeologist by Evie man, Alan Price. The runes on the lead strip were confirmed as genuine at the weekend by Professor Michael Barnes, the eminent runologist, who was in the county [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeologists are back at Wyre&#8217;s Neolithic settlement</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/05/09/740/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/05/09/740/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 10:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neolithic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Braes o' Ha'Breck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wyre]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=740</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A team from the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) returned to Wyre last week, to continue investigations on the remains of a Stone Age settlement. The site, at Ha’Breck, comprises Neolithic timber and stone houses, working areas and a domestic quarry. The excavation directors are Antonia Thomas and Daniel Lee. Antonia explained: “We have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening a window on life and death at the ‘Tomb of the Otters’</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/05/04/opening-a-window-on-life-and-death-at-the-%e2%80%98tomb-of-the-otters%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/05/04/opening-a-window-on-life-and-death-at-the-%e2%80%98tomb-of-the-otters%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 12:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chambered Tomb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neolithic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Ronaldsay]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Excavation work at a Stone Age tomb in South Ronaldsay is continuing to give archaeologists a clearer view of life, and death, in Neolithic Orkney. A three-week dig at Banks concluded in April, and saw the excavators recover a wealth of human remains as well as samples for DNA analysis. It’s been high on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomb of the Eagles remains paint a darker picture of Neolithic Orkney</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/03/16/tomb-of-the-eagles-remains-paint-a-darker-picture-of-neolithic-orkney/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/03/16/tomb-of-the-eagles-remains-paint-a-darker-picture-of-neolithic-orkney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chambered Tomb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neolithic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[isbister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Ronaldsay]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An “astounding” number of Neolithic men, women and children buried in Orkney’s Tomb of the Eagles suffered violent attacks and died from their injuries, according to new research. Of the 85 skulls studied from in and around the 5,000-year-old tomb, at least 20 per cent — but potentially as many as 40 per cent — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ness of Brodgar is Research Project of the Year</title>
		<link>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/02/28/ness-of-brodgar-excavation-named-research-project-of-the-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/02/28/ness-of-brodgar-excavation-named-research-project-of-the-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigurd Towrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neolithic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ness of Brodgar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Heritage Site]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=475</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The ongoing archaeological dig on the Ness of Brodgar has been named research project of the year, in a national awards scheme. Excavations director Nick Card, senior projects manager at the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA), accepted the prize, on behalf of his team, at the Current Archaeology awards ceremony at the British Museum, [...]]]></description>
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