Content of our yearly reviews

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Some of our yearly reviews are getting low in stock so we are offering you an oportunity to look back to see what you might be missing and complete your collection before stocks go. We do not plan to reprint any years so when they are gone they are gone!

2024 Review

includes:

• Work done at the Ness of Brodgar and by archaeologists across the county
• The community led project to reopen the Tomb of the Eagles
• The Iron Age broch, the Cairns in South Ronaldsay.
• The multi-period Swandro excavation in Rousay.
• A newly discovered Neolithic tomb in East Mainland, Blomuir.

2023 Review

includes:

• Work done at the Ness of Brodgar and by archaeologists across the county
• Art and archaeology
• Swandro on Rousay
• Understanding Maeshowe
• The archaeology of Outertown Stromness
• Viking Age Scotland
• The Newark Project in Deerness
• Animals as artifacts
• World War defences on Flotta and Eastern Mainland
• Orkney’s first settlers

2022 Review

• Iron Age diets at The Cairns Broch in South Ronaldsay
• Neolithic burial practices in Orkney
• The threat to our cultural heritage from costal erosion and the race to record as much as possible while we still can.
• The mathematics of the Neolithic
• The Graffiti of St Magnus’s Cathedral
• Orkney Energy Landscapes
• The reopening of the Scapa Flow Museum

2021 Review

• Examining evidence of textiles at the Ness
• Stone spatula tools from the Ness of Brodgar
• Norse waterways in the West Mainland
• The landscape around the Cairns broch
• Time travel: a manifesto for a new way to look at historical re-enactments
• The relationship between Orkney’s folklore and its archaeology
• Stromness Museum’s work decolonising its collection
• The influence of the Vikings on how contemporary Orcadians view themselves
• The excavation at John Rae’s Hall of Clestrain

2020 Review

includes:

• Ness of Brodgar
• The Cairns
• Links of Noltland
• Swandro and Skail
• Cata Sand
• Cubbie Roo
• Finstown Figurines
• The Picts
• St Magnus Cathedral

2019 Review

includes:

• 2018: Exciting Summer of Archaeology in Orkney
• The Cairns Cog:
• Towards a history of the Ness of Brodgar
• 3D Printing: making models of the Ness
• The Wrecks of Scapa Flow:
• Thinking through the Heart of Neolithic Orkney visitor experience
• The Bronze Age Cemetery at Links of Noltland
• “Beware the Mound Dweller!”, the representation of ancient sites in Orkney Folklore
• The 2018 excavations at the Knowe of Swandro
• Book Review: ’Ness of Brodgar: Open to the Public’
• St Magnus Graffiti Project

2018 Review

includes:

• Ness of Brodgar: story of an amazing excavation
• Digging in to Digital – A summer of photogrammetry in Orkney
• The Changing Shoreline of the Peedie Sea from the Medieval Period until 1930
• Knowe of Skea, Westray
• Mapping Magnus: Research, training and community
• Between Land and Sea: Beneath the Beach at Swandro, Rousay
• Yesnaby Art & Archaeology Research Project
• Caring for Cairns, Rousay
• Neolithic settlement at Cata Sand, Sanday
• Tomb of the Eagles
• New Dates for the Iron Age Metalworking at The Cairns

2017 Review

includes:

• Ness of Brodgar: Trench T
• The Ness of Brodgar: What happens to finds when they come out of the ground
• The art of Jeanne Rose
• Conversations with Magic Stones
• Death and life at The Cairns
• Virtual Coppersmiths – Exploring Iron Age non-ferrous metalworking utilising 3D scanning and printing
• Putting flesh on the bones: Reconstructing Cultural and Economical strategies using Osteological and Isotopical Analysis
• Historic Environment Scotland and the World Heritage Site
• Walking in-between: Field walking in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage site buffer zone at Maeshowe and Brodgar
• Rescue excavation at Links of Noltland – the story so far