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 ...

Orkney is often viewed as being remote. However it is one of the treasure troves of archaeology in Britain, and recent discoveries there are turning the Stone Age map of Britain upside down.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

For example, two individuals who were buried in Scotland’s Orkney Islands with Viking grave goods and in traditional Viking style were, surprisingly, determined to be genetically linked to the ...

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 ...

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