“Martin Carruthers is The Man With The Plan at The Cairns archaeology dig in Orkney. “
Whales – Ancient & Modern
The Orkney Exhibitions Season Has Started!
“The ‘new’ Pictish Stone can connect with the collection of Pictish Stones permanently on display in the Museum”
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.”
The Gnarly Old Question Of Souterrains
“I hadn’t seen this piece of writing before, and have wondered, wondered and wondered about souterrains”
‘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.
On-line Archaeology Seminar & Discussion
The Cairns…Dolmens …Much of interest
The Cairns Broch and a Fin Whale – The End of Two Giants
“This research helps us to recognise the significant role that the treatment of the fin whale had in the dramatic procedures of deliberately ending of the monumental broch.” – Martin Carruthers
Cuween Cairn – Wideford Hill
“it was a clear, sunny day in mid-October and we wanted to be somewhere up, to look about us – so combining Cuween and Wideford seemed like a good idea.”
