Archaeologists are thrilled by the discovery of a Roman coin during the excavation of an archaeological site in Orkney. The copper alloy coin was found at the Knowe of Swandro, the location of a ...

These ancient sites are just the tip of Orkney’s historical iceberg. Archaeological excavations across the islands continue to reshape our understanding of the archipelago's past. A particularly ...

Midhowe: An example of a stalled cairn, from the Orkney Isles, off the north coast of Scotland ... Wayland's Smithy: Also from southern England, this site consists of a long mound, originally with a ...

42 of these vessels were salvaged and various components of the ships' structures lie on the seabed marking these wreck sites. Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (Orca) has been working with ...

The northern isles of the Orkney archipelago receive fewer visitors ... teeming colonies of seabirds, fabulous archaeological ...

Scottish archaeology hub Dig It! also has a Pictish spearbutt found in Fife, an Orkney shipwreck, a Hebridean prehistoric site and a Celtic bangle from the Highlands among its "most amazing ...

Across the globe, other archaeological sites face similar threats from climate ... Sites such as the Knowe of Swandro in the Orkney Islands are turning to laser scanning and other technologies ...