“The ‘new’ Pictish Stone can connect with the collection of Pictish Stones permanently on display in the Museum”
The Orkney Exhibitions Season Has Started!
Maeshowe Neolithic Tomb Reopens to Visitors
Visitors can now book tickets to Maeshowe as part of HES’s new seasonal activity for 2022, with more sites set to follow in reopening across the country on a rolling basis.
The Complex & Ever-Changing Use of the Wider Stonehenge Landscape
“The traces we see in our data span millennia, as indicated by the seven-thousand-year timeframe between the oldest and most recent prehistoric pits we’ve excavated. “Paul Garwood, Senior Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Birmingham
More Fun With Limpets!
“I was thinking, again, about children playing with shells in past times”
The Rising & Setting of Ideas
“Statements that will hold good for all time are difficult to obtain in archaeology. The most that can be done at any one time is to report on the current state of knowledge.” Jennifer K. McArthur
The Dates For The Cairns!!!
After a pause of two years the archaeology dig at The Cairns, Windwick, South Ronaldsay, is set to happen again!!
19thC Ship Graffiti ‘ unlike those found elsewhere in East Africa’
Researchers from the University of Exeter have been examining graffiti made by soldiers in an African fort as they watched the seas for approaching ships.
Thumbs Up To The OAS!
The AGM is on Thursday the 26th of May at 7pm and the projected time for the following talk by Martin Carruthers – ‘People of the Broch: Excavating an Iron Age Community at The Cairns, South Ronaldsay’ – is 7.30pm.
More Neolithic Connections
“Twenty years ago Mike was on a work trip to Brittany, and in their time off the Working Group were taken out on a boat into the Golfe de Morbihan. “
“Is this a dagger which I see before me” But what did Bronze Age People use it for?
First appearing in the early 4th millennium BCE, copper-alloy daggers were widespread in Bronze Age Europe including Britain and Ireland.
