Large marked stone found on Lopness Bay beach. Any ideas, anyone?
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Meur excavation as at July 2015. (A replica, of sorts, has been built adjacent to the Sanday Heritage Centre.)
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Archaeologists based in Orkney are investigating a number of 19th century whale skeletons recovered during a dig at a neolithic site.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-42066646
found during present excavations archaeologyorkney.com/2017/08/28/amazing-finds-at-cata-sand-early-neolithic-houses-and-19th-century-whales/
From the Orcadian:
“Archaeological discoveries are often made when least expected, and this is exactly what happened on Monday, at Tresness, Sanday.
In very poor weather, Professor Jane Downes (University of the Highlands and Islands), Professor Colin Richards (University of Manchester), Dr Vicki Cummings (University of Central Lancaster) and Christopher Gee (ORCA, UHI) were walking out to Tresness to examine the eroding stalled cairn on the point.
But en route, they discovered the remains of no less than 14 Bronze Age houses, distributed over a kilometre stretch of sand.
What this discovery reveals is that an entire Bronze Age landscape on Sanday was covered by as the sand dunes formed in the second millennium BC.
But it was the scale and density of occupation that really surprised the archaeologists as they proceeded along the ness. Not only are house structures present but working areas are also visible”
orcadian.co.uk/2015/12/chance-discovery-of-massive-bronze-age-settlement-in-sanday/
Last year the known burnt mound at Meur was removed to another site, now there is a larger and even earlier mound being excavated in the usual race against time.
facebook.com/31395967167/photos/a.222229797167.114824.31395967167/10152415664612168/?type=1 and Thursday’s edition of Around Orkney (available on Soundcloud now)