“Martin Carruthers is The Man With The Plan at The Cairns archaeology dig in Orkney. “
Whales – Ancient & Modern
Corrimony Chambered Cairn, Glen Urquhart
The 4,000 year old Corrimony Cairn is what is known as a Clava Style of cairn. It consists of a circular structure piled high with carefully placed stones. Around its outside are standing stones.
The Orkney Exhibitions Season Has Started!
“The ‘new’ Pictish Stone can connect with the collection of Pictish Stones permanently on display in the Museum”
Revealing The Cairns – Part Two
“Beads!!!!! The Cairns excavation is showing just how much our Iron Age ancestors liked ornament, either for themselves, or their living space………”
Revealing The Cairns – Part One
“From an interesting hummock in the land, this site has emerged and risen, year by year, structure by structure, layer by layer.”
When A Broch Becomes A Ting
“Some of the mounds produced by Iron Age Brochs provided conveniently elevated sites for these gatherings of the Norsemen, and became Tings.”
Thoughts On Structures Being More Than What The Eye Can See
” examples of the varied forms of re-use of structures and the materials they were made from.”
‘On Christmas Day….On Christmas Day…..’
“This Christmas Day dawned fine and sunny, and we decided to go to the cairn on Wideford Hill where we’d be up and able to look about us.”
Rediscovering Scotland’s Master Builders: The Broch Project
Brochs are incredible structures, built by the people in the Iron Age who lived in Scotland. These unique buildings of dry stone construction once towered across our landscape.
The Gnarly Old Question Of Souterrains
“I hadn’t seen this piece of writing before, and have wondered, wondered and wondered about souterrains”
