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01.08.2025 21:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@orkneyarchaeology.bsky.social
Charity set up to support and promote archaeology in and across Orkney.
Thanks Bill, I'll.pass onto the person who sorts that for us
01.08.2025 21:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Indeed it does, for some reason we can't change it. But the events are correct
30.07.2025 20:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Today 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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Watch our website tomorrow for details of the programme, with booking info to follow
29.07.2025 19:43 β π 12 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0The first-everΒ Orkney Archaeology FestivalΒ landsΒ 10β14 Sept 2025!
Explore Orkneyβs rich past with 28 events:
πΉΒ Guided walks
πΉΒ Site tours
πΉΒ Talks & workshops
πΉΒ Family fun & more
Full programme online soon
With @UHIArchaeology, @welovehistory, @OrkneyCouncil
#Orkney #Archaeology #festival
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
05.05.2025 12:04 β π 17 π 2 π¬ 0 π 2There's a wonderful exhibition celebrating Palestinian art and culture on in Stromness #Orkney
09.04.2025 12:35 β π 20 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0OAS 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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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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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
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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Excellent. Will look out for the link
11.03.2025 19:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh, interesting. Will this be on line or in person?
10.03.2025 21:55 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Here 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 foundβ¦. archaeologyorkney.com/2025/03/07/v...
07.03.2025 13:53 β π 23 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0We love to have you part of this . Do say hi if you can :)
09.03.2025 23:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The Tomb of the Eagles crowd funder is doing well but needs more support. Can you help?
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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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Archaeology as community wealth building
please help this important crowdfunder
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πΊ #Archaeology #Scotland #ArchScot
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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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
Jan Blatchford on her surprising discovery - a cordon running across the base of a pot's interior.
#archaeology #ceramics #Orkney #Neolithic
Orkney Archaeology Society are delighted to have been able to play such a role in this really exciting research.
27.02.2025 19:21 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0New 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 β Early Modern European Studies (EMES)
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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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Lovely to 'see' you, great talk :)
23.01.2025 23:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Tonight'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
23.01.2025 08:40 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1If you follow this link you RSVP at the end.
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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
20.01.2025 22:09 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0This is our YouTube channel. The Skaill talk isn't up yet but will be soon, all being well
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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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