The Quanterness passage grave is the third in a series of three found in a three-mile stretch of countryside between Kirkwall and Finstown …
The Knowes of Trotty – a Bronze Age cemetery and Neolithic settlement site
The Knowes of Trotty form a Bronze Age barrow cemetery that is the only one of its kind in northern Britain and the largest between here and southern England …
Visit Skara Brae virtually with new digital 3D model
A new 3D model of Skara Brae is offering online visitors an immersive digital experience of the 5,000-year-old Neolithic settlement …
The Sandfiold Bronze Age cemetery
Sandfiold is a low hill, near Skara Brae, that is home to the remnants of an extensive Bronze Age cemetery …
Sandfiold: an ‘exceptional’ burial cist in use for almost two millennia
In 1989, a vehicle broke through the top of a rock-cut chamber that contained a rectangular, box-like structure …
Sandfiold: cremation, tomb and cist
Like the many Neolithic chambered cairns throughout Orkney, the Sandfiold cist was clearly meant to be, and was, re-used. Few Orcadian cairns have been found to contain human remains, strongly suggesting that they were not …
The Knap of Howar, Papa Westray
Until the early years of the 21st century, the two buildings at the Knap of Howar had the distinction of being the earliest evidence of Neolithic settlement in Orkney …
Link: Explore Vinquoy chambered cairn with new 3d model
3d model of the Vinquoy chambered cairn, Eday, Orkney. New 3d models of chambered cairns now available to explore as part of the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Tombs of the Isles project …
Crossiecrown settlement – part one
The Crossiecrown settlement lay in the northern shadow of Wideford Hill, on low ground to the north-east of the Quanterness cairn. Occupied from around 3300BC to 1800BC, the site spanned the Orcadian Neolithic and Early …
The Crossiecrown settlement – part two
Parallels with Barnhouse and the Ness of Brodgar hint that the Crossiecrown “double-house” was more than a dwelling. The quality of the internal stonework, the deposited artefacts and the fact the Red House had been …
