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Shropshire

Helen of The Roads


An engineered road thought to have connected the Wrekin and Old Oswestry hillforts pre-dates R*man construction by several hundred years according to a summation of excavation newspaper reports (regarding Bayston Hill quarry) in the new Fortean Times, FT279

Ness of Brodgar (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork)

Brodgar Boy re-united


now resembling a segmented rolling-pin http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/nessofbrodgar/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/0808114.jpg

Banks (Chambered Tomb)

Latest news from Bank of The Otters


Sigurd brings us up to date after 360 Production left us hanging http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/?p=710

Season 2 now online


Already up to day 2 on 360 Productions' YouTube channel (see links).

Rousay

Braes o Ha'breck excavation resumes


On Wyre about to start again (May 2nd) and will continue posting at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Braes-of-HaBreck-Wyre-a-Big-Dig-on-a-Small-Isle/196853287006365 .

Banks

Neolithic chambers discovered near Tomb of the Eagles


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11656142 with link to daily You Tube updates
http://www.youtube.com/user/360Production

Orkney

Colin Renfrew lecture this Saturday


September 18th in Kirkwall Rown Hall

Ness of Brodgar (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork)

Slate roof found


Either collapsed or deliberately demolished..
http://bit.ly/ccv00C

Neolithic painted walls


Painted walls found Friday, a first for Britain and perhaps northern Europe.
http://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/radioorkney.asp
from 9 or 10 a.m. 27th July to approx 8 a.m. 28th July 2010.

Perth and Kinross

Forteviot cemetery


Had been thought to be Bronze Age but according to Dr. Kenneth Brophy in a talk tonight the C14 dates came back Fiday and place it in the Neolithic with dates in the range 3000-2800 B.C.E. pre-dating the henge and the timber circle

Orkney

funding for underwater archaeology


Orkneyjar's report here http://ow.ly/1eGbP - much clearer pics than "The Orcadian".
As the only other NMRS for Damsay is a site the excavator thought to be a Norse castle but is now believed to have been a broch it is probable that the orthostats in one photo could relate to this. Though a short talk was given on preliminary Rising Tide findings beside these nowt has appeared in print or in the report, so from memory the Bay of Firth has in it likely chambered mounds and (one or more) stone circles

OIC funded projects 2010


from Sigurd Towrie
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/oicfunding2010.htm

West Mainland

a Wideford Hill site re-discovered ?


"Orkney Today" and "The Orcadian" of June 4th 2009 report the discovery of a potential tomb at Heathfield, beehive shaped and built straight into the bedrock. There is a lintelled space opposite the corbelled cell. Way back "The Orcadian" of March 1st 1864 reports that drainage works on a new Wideford Hill farm revealed a large coverstone in the cut with cells beneath. A roughly 2½' long 2' wide central passage, blocked with stones at the northern end, ran NNW/SSE The southern end widened out, opening into two chambers in opposite directions, the southern one with a floor 4" above both the northern one and the passage. Edge-set slabs form the sides and ends of the northern chamber, which measures 4" by 2½" and some 2'2" high and has a reduced entrance some 2½' across . Except for one edge-set slab at the back the southern chamber is of walling, and it measures 3½" by 2'10" by 2' and the passage enters directly into it. George Petrie took measurements and made a plan of it. As with the present site nothing marked the site on the surface.
If, as seems likely, this is the same site then there is less potential for new finds here.
Caroline Wickham-Jones differs "as this is away from the farm and not related to any previous drainage" and asks "whether there is more than one of these in the vicinity"

Eday

2nd Eday carved stone


Found during this season's dig at Green
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/eday2008.htm (the first came from Eday Manse in 1861 and resembles those from Pierowall [1981] and Pickaquoy [1864]).

The Great Sacred Monuments of Stenness

Ness of Brodgar 2008 excavation diary


nice pics again http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/nessofbrodgar/index.html

Ring of Brodgar (Circle henge)

2008 excavation diary


posting this as finally some photos (and short vid) that show something, including a peeled stone http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/ringofbrodgar/index.html

Hoy

'new' chambered tomb


This fortnight's excavation of the Outer Green Hill 'broch' has revealed a Neolithic chambered cairn ( http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/greenhill.htm with photos)

East Mainland

Brough of Deerness


The promised excavations are finally underway. The head is in favour of a Viking chief's settlement, the traditional view is an early Viking monastery, but they don't rule out something previous
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/scotland_aod.shtml?scotland/aroundorkney (for today). Myself I would like to know about the unnoted lower promontory wall ( http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=28653 )as it looks to date from a period when the brough had better connection to the 'mainland' ,but hey-ho

The Great Sacred Monuments of Stenness

Late Sea Ingress


A radically different picture of the prehistoric landscape around Orkney's World Heritage Site is beginning to emerge – a landscape which perhaps didn't feature the Stenness and Harray lochs.

Preliminary results from an archaeo-environmental project indicate that, prior to 1500BC, the Stenness loch was an area of wet marshland surrounding small pools or lochans.

http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/sealevel2008.htm

Salt Knowe (Round Barrow(s))

Silsbury pill


Geophysics has revealed that thiis is not a chambered cairn but more like Silbury Hill, as with a site at Dunragit in Dumfries and Galloway, the BA cist and animal bones from ?feasting towards the top being later additions http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/saltknowe.htm
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