Orkney Archaeology

Just a quick reminder....This Friday .....The next @ThinkUHI Islands Matter free online seminar.... UHI OCEAN: Cross-Pollination of Ideas for Resilient Futures. ➕ 1.30pm - 2.30pm UK Time ➕ Friday 20/02/26 ➕ Free online ➕ Register through website tinyurl.com/24hu2tfp

@mikasounds That looks fantastic!

Once upon a time in Dungeness! 'Excuses For Love' video is out now! #excusesforlove #hyperlove

@klondyker @AilsaMcL @OrkneyLibrary @HughHarrop @IonaMJMacDonald @VisitScotland Spectacular scenes, especially in the snow

Behold, the "Great Wall of Deerness" . Possibly the highlight of our time on Orkney so far. Great Wall of Deerness in Deerness, Scotland | Ask Anything share.google/28du8o2wrY1iPZ…

*** change of date for next OAS talk *** To avoid clashing with the Ness film (22nd Jan) we are moving our scheduled talk with Dr Graeme Wilson on " Excavations at the Knowe of Skea, Westray 700BC to 700AD?" to 29th January. This is a zoom talk and the link will remain the same

INS @ThinkUHI @uhi_orkney PhD candidate Shanna Bryman gave a fascinating seminar titled ' Hidden in Plain Sight: Recovering Female Leadership in the Viking Age' Now on You Tube #Vikings youtu.be/-ftfA34_PHU

We have some big news...The dates for the 2nd Orkney Archaeology Festival are agreed. Get your 2026 diaries ready, and mark out 9th - 13th September. @uhi_orkney @welovehistory @OrkneyCouncil @orkneycom @bbcorkney @OrkneyMuseums @Archaeology_Mag #orkney #Archaeology

Next Orkney Archaeology Society Public Talk : Thursday 4 December. 7pm. King Street Halls, Kirkwall. Ness Battery - Then and Now. A talk by Andrew Hollinrake. All welcome ~ free entry ~ raffle

Tomorrow! 🎉 Join us as we celebrate 10 years of Archaeology at UHI Orkney — talks, discoveries, hands-on activities, and a chance to meet the team behind a decade of research. Come along and be part of it! 🔍✨

@OxbowBooks A fantastic book, received my copy yesterday

Unearth the exciting results of a long-term project examining Bronze Age round barrow construction and burial practices in Orkney ➡️ bit.ly/3VJN3ws

It's a little known fact that Otis Redding spent time in Hoy, #Orkney during the 1920s while engineer Ernest Cox carried out salvage work on the scuttled German fleet, as shown in this photograph. Otis was often seen sitting on the dock in Mill Bay, watching the tide roll away.

Viking silver treasures from the Burray Hoard go on display at Orkney Museum Over seventy artifacts from the internationally renowned Burray Hoard will go on display for the first time at the Orkney Museum from Saturday, November 1... More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/10/artifa…

Watching the rain come in over Hoy this afternoon. 5 mins between the 2 photos #orkney

Note change of name for our talk on the 30th - now "Viking Hoards and Pulp Fiction". All other details still the same #orkney #archaeology

Our next event - The Viking Silver Hoards of Orkney: Return of the Burray Hoard to the Orkney Museum. Thursday 30th October : King Street Halls, Kirkwall : 7.00pm : Free entry, all welcome. by Dr Martin Goldberg, Principal Curator of Medieval Archaeology at NMS.

Fantastic talk last night by Dr John Gater, from Time Team. A great Orkney Archaeology Festival event.

#BookyMcBookface is away on the ferry to the beautiful #Orkney island of Westray today. Last winter we filmed a full day of travelling from the library to Westray, around the island, and back again. 12 and a half hours in 2 minutes. Hold on tight! 💨

@OxbowBooks Thanks for the post and mentioning our Festival - Professor Downes in leading 2 walks to the Knowes of Trotty on Saturday, very few tickets left! More details on our website, its a free event but numbers are limited!. We'll share details of this book as well

It’s the day 1 of the Orkney Archaeology Festival! The perfect time to tell you about this forthcoming volume, which presents a major re-appraisal of Orkney Bronze Age burial practices, incorporating new excavation results from iconic sites. Learn more➡️ bit.ly/3VJN3ws

Have you ever wished that YOU could be the person who got to drive #BookyMcBookface around #Orkney, delivering books? Well, YOU could be. 👇 myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/orkne…

📢 Orkney Islands Council is recruiting a Trading Standards Officer to ensure a fair and safe trading environment is maintained, covering consumer and business advice, legal metrology, product safety, animal welfare and fair trading/scams. Visit ➡️ tradingstandards.uk/practitioners/…

Today we have launched the Orkney Archaeology Festival programme. Tickets for some events are required, and also now live on Eventbrite. Follow this link for the programme. Great to work with friends @UHIArchaeology @welovehistory and @OrkneyCouncil orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/events/?fbclid…