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Charity set up to support and promote archaeology in and across Orkney.
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Today we have launched the Orkney Archaeology Festival programme. Tickets for some events are required, and also now live on Eventbrite. Follow this link for the programme. Great to work with friends @UHIArchaeology @welovehistory and @OrkneyCouncil

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Events from April 23, 2019 – August 6, 2019 – Orkney Archaeology Society
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July 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Watch our website tomorrow for details of the programme, with booking info to follow
July 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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The first-ever Orkney Archaeology Festival lands 10–14 Sept 2025!

Explore Orkney’s rich past with 28 events:
🔹 Guided walks
🔹 Site tours
🔹 Talks & workshops
🔹 Family fun & more
Full programme online soon

With @UHIArchaeology, @welovehistory, @OrkneyCouncil

#Orkney #Archaeology #festival
July 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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OAS are delighted to share details of our next Legacy event. On 28th May Ness Dig Director Nick Card will be in conversation with Mark Edmonds. Before this however we are also premiering our film of last summers Ness of Brodgar exhibition, filmed for us by Mark Jenkins. #Orkney
May 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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There's a wonderful exhibition celebrating Palestinian art and culture on in Stromness #Orkney
April 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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OAS are pleased to announce that our next public talk is on Wed 30th April with Esther Renwick from @HistEnvScot This is a free talk but as places are limited please book your seat via our website. This talk is unlikely to be filmed.
#orkney

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Talk: By Esther Renwick, Historic Environment Scotland
Esther is District Visitor and Community Manager (Orkney and Shetland) Historic Environment Scotland. “Simply Amazing”: Managing Orkney’s Properties in Care Esther Renwick of HES will speak about  …
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April 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Don't forget our talk tonight. You've still got time to register, you need to click on this link and click on RSVP to be sent the zoom details.

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Talk: Further discoveries at Blomuir Passage Grave, Holm
By Hugo Anderson Wymark National Museums Scotland In 2023 a new Neolithic passage grave was discovered at Blomuir, Holm. Excavations in 2024 fully excavated the chamber and side cells, revealing fu…
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March 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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A report from Jo Bourne on the Current Archaeology Live! conference in London at the weekend, at which site director Nick Card was the keynote speaker.
#archaeology #Orkney #NessOfBrodgar #Neolithic
20 years of Ness discoveries – Nick at Current Archaeology Live! conference
A report from Jo Bourne on the Current Archaeology Live! conference in London at the weekend, at which Nick was the keynote speaker.
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March 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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This is a recording of the talk given by Fiona Grahame which relates the stories of some of the men who lost their lives when M-class destroyer struck a mine off Rora Head, Orkney on 1st March 1917. #RoyalNavy #WorldWar1 #Orkney
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HMS Pheasant 1917 Book Launch
YouTube video by The Orkney News
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March 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Here is the talk given by Jenny Murray, filmed by the @orkneyarchaeology.bsky.social - and revealing the carbon dating of the wooden box where the bones were found…. archaeologyorkney.com/2025/03/07/v...
Video: 'A Saint in Stone' - recording of OAS talk now available online - Archaeology Orkney
The recording of Jenny Murray's Orkney Archaeology Society (OAS) talk, A Saint in Stone, is now available online.
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March 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The Tomb of the Eagles crowd funder is doing well but needs more support. Can you help?

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Tomb of the Eagles
The Tomb of the Eagles is one of Orkney's best-loved Neolithic sites. We aim to re-open and restore it as a community hub and tourist locale
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March 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Orkney Archaeology Society's next public talk is an online event with Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, outlining further discoveries at Blomuir Passage Grave, Holm. The talk will be on 20th March, starting at 7pm.

Get your free tickets here,
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Talk: Further discoveries at Blomuir Passage Grave, Holm
By Hugo Anderson Wymark National Museums Scotland In 2023 a new Neolithic passage grave was discovered at Blomuir, Holm. Excavations in 2024 fully excavated the chamber and side cells, revealing fu…
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March 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Archaeology as community wealth building

please help this important crowdfunder

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🏺 #Archaeology #Scotland #ArchScot
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The Tomb of Eagles: Can You Help Us?

The Crowdfunder goes live on March 1st for 6 weeks and ends  on 12th April. The QR code takes to where you can donate. The South Ronaldsay & Burray Development Trust is undertaking a unique project to purchase the Tomb of the Eagles as a community buyout which…
The Tomb of Eagles: Can You Help Us?
The Crowdfunder goes live on March 1st for 6 weeks and ends  on 12th April. The QR code takes to where you can donate. The South Ronaldsay & Burray Development Trust is undertaking a unique project to purchase the Tomb of the Eagles as a community buyout which is a first in Scotland for a scheduled monument. This will secure the reopening of the site which has been closed for over four years as result initially of the pandemic and then the Simison family owning and running the site and visitor’s centre retiring.
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March 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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A team from the UHI Archaeology Institute will be back in #Sanday in August to continue excavating a Bronze Age structure as part of a project looking at the Neolithic-Bronze Age transition in #Orkney.
#archaeology #Neolithic #BronzeAge #ThinkUHI #excavation
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Back in Sanday this summer to continue investigations into Neolithic-Bronze Age transition - Archaeology Orkney
A team from the UHI Archaeology Institute will be back in Sanday in August to continue excavating as part of a project looking at the Neolithic-Bronze Age transition in Orkney.
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February 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark's 3d model of the Bronze Age structures in Spurness, Sanday, under excavation in 2018. We're returning to site in August to continue investigations.
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#archaeology #Orkney #Sanday #BronzeAge #ThinkUHI
3D model of Sanday Bronze Age double-house - Archaeology Orkney
A 3d model from Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark showing the Bronze Age structures in Spurness, Sanday, under excavation in 2018.
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February 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Jan Blatchford on her surprising discovery - a cordon running across the base of a pot's interior.
#archaeology #ceramics #Orkney #Neolithic
A pot is for storage and cooking…right?
Jan Blatchford on her surprising discovery - a cordon running across the base of a pot's interior.
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February 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Orkney Archaeology Society are delighted to have been able to play such a role in this really exciting research.
February 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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New MLitt Course @thinkuhi.bsky.social - with @uhihistory.bsky.social @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social, Highland Theological College & UHI Literature team, @insuhi.bsky.social enrolling in September 2025 – Early Modern European Studies (EMES)
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UHI Launches New Early Modern European Studies MLitt
The University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies, in collaboration with the UHI Centre for History, UHI Archaeology Institute, UHI Highland Theological College and UHI Lit…
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February 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Delighted to share the film of our January talk by Paul Sharman, Regional Archaeologist here at @OrkneyCouncil
#orkney #archaeology

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Role of an archaeologist
YouTube video by Orkney Archeology Society
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February 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Tonight's the night for our online talk with Paul Sharman - this free event starts at 7pm and to get your zoom link please visit the events page on our website #orkney #archaeology
January 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Don't miss our talk this coming Thursday. Hear Paul Sharman talk about the role of the Regional Archaeologist. This is an online only event, starts at 7pm & is free to attend. You can get the link to this talk at our website. RSVP and we will send you the zoom link. #Orkney
January 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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It's the first OAS talk of 2025! Join us on 23 January for a zoom talk by Paul Sharman, who will be answering the question "what does the Regional Archaeologist do?"
This is a free talk, and you can get the link by RSVP'ing here

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January 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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*** talk tonight ***

We now have 6 seats available for tonight's talk. If you tried to get a ticket earlier and couldn't, here is your chance!

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December 5, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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2 more tickets available for our talk on Thursday. These were snapped up in minutes last time - good luck!

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December 3, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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*** 5th December talk update ***

We've had a couple of tickets cancellations for this event so there are 2 places available if you missed out. Book them via this link (you need to RSVP).

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December 2, 2024 at 11:49 AM