| Bookan
Chambered Cairn |
17th
- 28th of June
Nick Card, with the assistance of Dr Colin Richards and students
from Manchester and Orkney, is re-excavating parts of this chambered
cairn to retrieve evidence relating to its construction and date.
|
| Vestrafiold,
Sandwick |
1st
- 12th July
: Is this, or is it not, a site where Standing Stones were quarried?
|
| Knowes
of Trotty, Harray |
5th
- 7th July
This Bronze Age barrow cemetery is particularly important becauseof
the finds of gold and amber discovered last century. |
| Geophysics
on the Brodgar peninsula |
25th
July - 5th September
. If there's more to the prehistoric landscape here than meets
the eye… John Gater will locate it! |
| Minehowe,
Tankerness |
12th
August - 7th September
Nearby, and probably contemporary with Minehowe, is a broch set
out into wetland. We will be investigating this broch and its
siting as well as looking for connections between Minehowe and
the broch. |
| Knowe
of Skea, Berstness, Westray |
26th
August - 20th September
This excavation is being undertaken as a response to the threat
to the site from the sea.
|
| Quoygrew,
Westray |
1st July - 9th August
The extensive middens, houses and fields of this site contain evidence for
the economic basis of a vernacular settlement from Viking to Post-Medieval
times. |