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Stronsay

Stronsay Mesolithic


http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/stronsayflints2008.htm

Long Howe (Cairn(s))

Nut confirms Mesolithic context


The hazelnut was found in a layer beneath the Bronze Age burial mound at Longhowe during excavations earlier this year. The charred shell has been dated to 6820-6660 BC, and its discovery pushes back the known settlement of Orkney by 3,000 years. Mesolithic settlement has long been known from stone tools, but the nut has provided the first definite date.

courtesy http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/minehowemeso20072.htm

Scotland (Country)

Discovery & Excavation in Scotland online


Now downloadable at http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/des/index.cfm as a .pdf for each year from 1947-2001. However these are facsimiles, so you really need to know which year you want as these won't be truly searchable

J.W. Cursiter collection online


The Hunterian museum is re-assembling his(mostly Northern Isles) donation and adding this to their catalogue as they go http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk
At present this is text-only but images will be added over the coming months

The Great Sacred Monuments of Stenness

Ness of Brodgar 2007


Orkneyjar will be posting updates on this season's dig that starts Monday :-
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/brodgar2007/index.html

Long Howe (Cairn(s))

Mesolithic Excavation Starts


Today Radio Orkney reports that a great number of Mesolithic tools have come to light, though presently this is thought to represent a refurbishment workshop rather than a factory per se. They urgently require volunteers to sieve the whole of the spoil heap for microliths missed by the main thrust of the excavation

Orkney

Second week of Corrigall earthhouse


no pic of rock art yet but
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/harrayearthhouse2.htm

A new Orkney souterrain in pressure dig


Another souterrain has come to light in Harray (see Dale) in ploughing a field for barley . Historic Scotland has given a 3 week grant for its excavation, no visitors allowed. With it a hole in the same field reminiscent of that found by the South Keigar earthhouse in Deerness, Orkney.
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/harrayearthhouse.htm

2nd week on Corrigall earthhouse :-
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/harrayearthhouse2.htm

Maeshowe (Chambered Tomb)

Moated Maes Howe


http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/ditch2006.htm filled with water [only partial view]

The Great Sacred Monuments of Stenness

Massive wall at Brodgar car park


An enclosure that may have originally been about a hundred metres across found at edge http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/brodgarenclosure.htm

Orkney

End of 2006 Ness of Brodgar dig


Peninsula man-made for 2-4 metres down, chambered tomb/s, decorated cist lid etc. etc. with pics
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/brodgar2006.htm

Knowes of Trotty (Cairn(s))

3500BCE house/s preceded BA cemetery


Sigurd's report on the latest doings (including a house contemporary with the Knap of Howar) with twa photos http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/knowes2006.htm

Westray

90% of Scotland's IA burials on Westray


C14 dates for burials at the Knowe of Skea (HY44SW 2) on the edge of Berst Ness [HY44SW 3] push back the age of these from Viking to 200BCE-400ACE. Many of them (mostly children) consisted of bagged bodies dropped vertically into spaces created by removing material from the structures' walls. Article with photo on Sigurd's site http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/knoweskea2006.htm

Knowes of Trotty (Cairn(s))

Knowes of Trotty Open day


(For those with transport) Sunday July 30th there are guided tours from one o'clock till five, including the ongoing excavation of an 'early' Neolithic structure with central hearth.

Orkney

Bronze Age axe head found


Radio Orkney reports that a socketed bronze axe-head was found a few months ago whilst digging in the Highland Park peats in the Hobbister area of Orphir. This LBA artefact is [believed to be] the first of its kind from Orkney.
Story and pics http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/socketedaxe.htm

Neolithic finds in Wyre


From Radio Orkney this morning ; a just completed survey (jointly funded by the Flaws family and the O.I.C.) of the island of Wyre [Weir/Veira] found five mace-head fragments and also miniature soft stone axes in a field, made from non-local stone (Hebrides suggested as source).
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/wyresettlement.htm

Neolithic mound confirmed


Radio Orkney's monthly "Orkology" last night had a report on a small-scale dig at the Ness of Brodgar to ascertain the cause of slip observed recently by the farmer at this feature. They found many pieces of Corded Ware and a pitchblende fragment, bolstering the theory that the known revetments are in connection with a large chambered tomb - the admittedly limited excavation found no IA material to back up the theory that we had a broch here (though one should bear in mind that locally we do have precedent for a broch built over a CT at The Howe).

Dundurn (Hillfort)

Rock halts developer


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1881612,00.html

Saved because faery colony held to be beneath it, this is not St.Fillan's Seat but a boulder over a plague pit (see http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=28343)

Mine Howe (Burial Chamber)

Second Mine Howe burial


Sigurd's report http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/minehoweburial2005.htm
(extension for burial recording was granted).

Knowes of Trotty (Cairn(s))

Latest Report


http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/trotty2005finds.htm has the newspaper report from last week after the re-discovery of the amber beads. The image of the cist area shows the pair of standing stones that hem the cist itself.
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