The Bay of Skaill trail
We bring this week to a close they way we started it – with another trail!
This time we head to the west coast of the Orkney Mainland and take… Read more
Monthly Archive: May 2021
Wednesday wildlife – feathered friends
We’re back with a selection of photographs from the camera of Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card.
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The Bay of Firth Neolithic trail
Now that things are getting back to some semblance of normality, we’ve turned out attention to the incredibly rich Neolithic landscape around the Bay of Firth.
Although the trail focuses… Read more
Structure Twenty-Seven: A video introduction
A new video introducing the enigmatic Structure Twenty-Seven at the bottom of Trench T.… Read more
Wideford Hill chambered cairn
Just under three miles to the east of Cuween Hill, on the steep, upper slopes of Wideford Hill, is a second Neolithic passage grave. Read more
Link: The significance of red deer in prehistory
A link to a new article, Connecting the Edges: The Call of the Wild, by Kath Page, a postgraduate MLitt Archaeology Studies student at the UHI Archaeology Institute. Read more
Wednesday wildlife – hare today…
This week’s selection of photographs from site director Nick Card.… Read more
Cuween chambered cairn
The Cuween cairn is built on an artificial terrace on the upper slopes of Cuween Hill's eastern side. Cuween is a Maeshowe-type cairn consisting of a “roughly rectangular” central chamber with four smaller cells branching off from each side. Read more
