Orkney Research Centre For Archaeology

Sometimes it can seem a lonely existence in such a big landscape!
ORCA staff starting a trial trench for a client in Orkney.

Next Tuesday 27 November from 10.00am – 11.30am, a team from UHI Archaeology Institute & ORCA will be presenting Archaeology for Tourism as part of Orkney Autumn Tourism Week 2018 at St Magnus Centre,Palace Road, Kirkwall, KW15 1PA
What is archaeology? What can it do for tourism? These and other questions will be answered by Sean Page, Marketing Officer for the UHI Archaeology Institute, and Nick Card, Director of the Ness of Brodgar and LEADER Development Project, who will a...lso provide an update on the Ness of Brodgar dig.
The session will conclude with a discussion and question and answer session with Julie Gibson, County Archaeologist, and Pete Higgins, Senior Project Manager for Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology. The event is free to attend.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archaeolog y-for-tourism-tick…
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Check out this 3D model of the 8th Century AD Class II Pictish cross slab excavated in 2016 by staff from ORCA.
The slab was discovered by Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark and this 3D model was also created by Hugo....https://skfb.ly/6CTFq

The latest on the walkover survey at the Hall of Clestrain...the home of the explorer, John Rae.....
https://bit.ly/2B9YXHE

Help for our friends at Caithness Broch Project....

The publicity surrounding the Scapa Flow salvage sites survey continues to grow....ORCA and SULA Diving are now making headlines in the archaeology press in the USA.
https://www.archaeology.org/…/7113-1811 01-scapa-flow-shipwr…

ORCA and SULA Diving in History Scotland Magazine too.....https://www.historyscotland.com/â €¦/underwater-archaeology-pr…

ORCA and SULA Diving are in the news talking about the salvage sites work being completed in Scapa Flow, Orkney.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/…/uk-scotland-nor th-east-orkney-shetl…

During the interwar period, forty five vessels of the German High Seas Fleet scuttled in Orkney Scapa Flow, were re-floated and salvage in one of the greatest marine salvage feats of all time.
As the vessels emerged from the depths, many of the important structures were left behind on the sea bed.
Catch up with the latest ORCA and SULA Diving project as they investigate the remains of these ships.....see our blog
... https://bit.ly/2DcxsiH
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Paul Sharman (ORCA) and Julie Gibson (UHI Archaeology Institute) have been working on an ongoing project entitled, Looking for a Safe Haven: Norse and Medieval Harbours in the Northern Isles of Scotland.
Recently, Paul attended the Harbours in Space and Time Conference in Mainz and presented their findings. See our blog for more details and download the abstract.
https://bit.ly/2yhWXLx

Check out ORCA's new web page showcasing some of the 3D archaeology models produced for clients in the past few months....
https://bit.ly/2NBCRAM

ORCA staff are looking forward to training local community archaeologists at the Hall of Clestrain - birthplace of arctic explorer John Rae - on Saturday 13th October 2018. See our blog for more details https://bit.ly/2Qsnrl9

The ORCA team have been creating further 3D models recording the nousts in Birsay, Orkney.
These models not only record an archaeological site in great detail for future reference and baseline comparison, but they also enable the team to evaluate a site very rapidly and in a cost effective and efficient way....something that our clients are finding more and more appealing
https://skfb.ly/6BEHO

ORCA Digital archaeologist, Jim Bright, has been at work in the past few weeks putting the finishing touches to 3D models created as part of the Mapping Magnus project.
This annotated model shows the nousts at Skipi Geo, Birsay, Orkney.
https://skfb.ly/6BEGD

ORCA staff in the sunshine for once at Swartigill community dig Caithness, North Scotland

ORCA staff working hard with community archaeologists at the Swartigill Iron Age site in Northern Scotland. See our blog for more....
https://bit.ly/2ChxO8p