Return to The Cairns: Excavation of an Orkney Broch Site

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Return to The Cairns: Excavation of an Orkney Broch Site

The UHI Archaeology Institute’s first excavation of the 2024 season gets under way this week, with a full team back at The Cairns Iron Age site in South Ronaldsay. Work began on the site in 2006, revealing a large broch (c100BC-AD200) and structures dating from the Iron Age through to the Norse period. The Cairns…

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June 10, 2024

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Archaeology Institute, Broch, excavation, Iron Age, South Ronaldsay, UHI, University of the Highlands and Islands

The UHI Archaeology Institute’s first excavation of the 2024 season gets under way this week, with a full team back at The Cairns Iron Age site in South Ronaldsay.

Looking across the broch interior at The Cairns, South Ronaldsay, Orkney. (Pic: UHI Archaeology Institute)

Work began on the site in 2006, revealing a large broch (c100BC-AD200) and structures dating from the Iron Age through to the Norse period.

The Cairns excavation runs, on weekdays, between Monday, June 10 and Friday, July 5. Visitors are welcome and an open day is scheduled for Friday, June 28.

You can find out more information here:

The Cairns – Archaeology Orkney

Friends of The Cairns Facebook Page