LOCALS in Fife have been left furious after a 1000 year old castle was refused protected status due to plans for an AI data centre to be built on the historic site being at an “advanced stage” ...

Results from the 2025 geophysical surveys suggests that the circular Iron Age structure that once stood on the Trench T midden mound could have been associated with an underground chamber.

PhD student Sophie Durbin looks back on her summer research trip to Orkney.

By Bernie Bell At the end of what was thought to be the last season of digging at the Ness of Brodgar, the People of the Ness placed their hand-prints onto pieces of fabric which were sown together and made into a display which was shown with a film of the ‘last’ season’s dig,  made by Lucy Carr McClave. …

On Saturday, the final day of the 2026 Orkney Archaeology Festival, we were delighted by the number of visitors to our open day in Kirkwall.

A series of drop in events is to take place this month about how the future of Orkney's UNESCO World Heritage site - 'The Heart of Neolithic Orkney' - is planned to develop. The public are encouraged to see what is being proposed and share their views: Monday 21 September, Old Library Kirkwall, 5pm - 7pm Tuesday 22 September, Stenness Community Hall, 6pm - 8pm…

A  new excavation after all this time……how could we not be interested?   So we went along on Sunday the 30th while the Community Archaeology  Weekend was taking place.

It was washed up on the rocks below the cliffs of Rothiesholm in 1808 and if it was a basking shark then it was fifteen feet longer than anything ever recorded. And you can see a small piece of it in ...

The processing of environmental samples from the site has produced a second tiny bead fragment from Structure Five.

ALT: Frank N Furter Dancing - Rhps