Dr Anderson-Whymark said: "This find is extremely exciting. "Orkney is exceptionally rich in archaeology, but we never expected to find a tomb of this size in a such a small-scale excavation.

Swandro-Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust The roundhouse where the coin was found The Swandro-Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust, which is leading the dig, describes itself as being in a "race ...

“For starters, you have to stop thinking of Orkney as remote,” says Caroline Wickham-Jones, a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. “For most of history, from the Neolithic ...

This four- to six-week summer archaeology field school provides intensive, on-site training in the archaeological methods and techniques in conjunction with the Ness of Brodgar archaeology project.

One of the most remarkable discoveries in modern archaeology: in 1850 a violent storm ravaged the Bay of Skaill in the Orkney Isles to the north-east of mainland Scotland, revealing the Neolithic ...

The latter, often constructed of large stones, still survive today. Midhowe: An example of a stalled cairn, from the Orkney Isles, off the north coast of Scotland. A long central passage was divided ...

It is not often that we at CA get to write about far-flung finds from such countries as Korea, Sweden, and Syria (though we love reading about them in the pages of our sister-magazine Current World ...

This course provides an introduction to the multidisciplinary field of modern archaeology. Through this course, students will be introduced to the history, theories, methods, and broader social ...

Orkney Islands Council received emergency funding from Historic Environment Scotland for an archaeological team from Wessex Archaeology to visit Sanday on Thursday and Friday. They will survey the ...

At the moment, NHS Scotland is currently hiring a number of positions on Orkney — and it could be the perfect opportunity to ...

May 2026 - 12 days Discover early human civilisations and fascinating wildlife amongst the wild isles of Scotland aboard the ...

Archaeology tends to be bankrolled by land ... Skara Brae, a Neolithic site also in Orkney, was concealed by sand dunes until ...