Was Iron Age Orkney the centre of a vast north warrior province?
Iron Age Orkney was the centre of a vast province, ruled over by a chieftain who co-ordinated a massive programme of defensive brochs to counter a threat from the south. This was the conclusion of...
View ArticleIron Age roundhouse under investigation
A vivid picture of an Iron Age landscape in South Ronaldsay is being built up thanks to a combination of archaeology and environmental studies. A major excavation on a broch-like structure at The...
View ArticleExcavation team return to South Ronaldsay to tackle archaeological jigsaw puzzle
A high-status Iron Age site in South Ronaldsay has been under excavation again this summer. The three-week excavation at the Cairns, led by Orkney College lecturer Martin Carruthers, focused, this...
View ArticleUnravelling centuries of Iron Age activity
Archaeological work has resumed on an Iron Age site in South Ronaldsay – once again attempting to unravel a complex series of buildings clustered around the site of a massive broch-like building. The...
View ArticleThe curious case of the Cairns ‘broch’
It’s definitely broch-like, but is it a broch? That’s the question still facing the archaeologists at the ongoing excavations at the Cairns in South Ronaldsay. Overlooking Windwick Bay, the Cairns is a...
View ArticleEight Orkney projects to benefit from a share of OIC’s £50,000 archaeology fund
Eight archaeological projects in the county are set to benefit from a share of £50,000 funding from Orkney Islands Council this year. This OIC’s 2012 fund for archaeological investigations will be...
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