Info Of Orkney - An Archaeologist's Paradise

Make your agency all the agency to the really hap of Scotland, as well as you’ll notice John O’Groats. Keep going as well as you’ll accomplish Orkney, a collection of lxx small-scale islands as well as dwelling trouble solid to but about of the most gorgeous scenery inward the British Isles.

The islands too accept a rich Scandinavian heritage: settled past times the Vikings inward the 9th century, Orkney is, says Dr Jane Harrison, Lecturer inward Archaeology at OUDCE, ‘an archaeologist’s paradise’. Dr Harrison began working on a dig inward the islands inward 2004, amongst Dr David Griffiths, Associate Professor inward Archaeology at OUDCE, who directed the Birsay-Skaill Landscape Archaeology Project, as well as Dr Michael Athanson, an archeologist as well as map specialist at the Bodleian. The 3 accept but published a major majority almost the work, Beside the Ocean: Coastal Landscapes at the Bay of Skaill, Marwick, as well as Birsay Bay, Orkney: Archaeological Research 2003-18 (Oxbow Books, 2019).

The dig location, at the Bay of Skaill on Orkney’s due west coast, is ‘stunning’ says Dr Harrison, though oft windy: ‘It tin survive a fleck fossil oil but really beautiful.’ From an archaeologist’s betoken of view, what makes Orkney as well as thus interesting is that ‘a lot of the sites are inward rural areas that haven’t been touched past times development’. Orkney was 1 of the outset areas to survive settled past times the Vikings when they moved out of Scandinavia, but until the OUDCE squad started work, exclusively a small-scale issue of their village sites had been scientifically investigated. This meant at that spot was a really rich history waiting to survive discovered.

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