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New characters for 2024
OAS has commissioned Alex Leonard the well known Orkney cartoonist to create four characters that depict key periods in Orkney’s… Read More
Awards for Orkney Projects !
News from Nick Card. Double success for the Ness!!! Great news from London this evening where it was announced at… Read More
OAS hosts Caroline Wickham-Jones web site.
At the beginning of last year we were asked to help out with another internet based project which we were… Read More
OAS fund New Ness book
Update from our Friends at the Ness on their big exhibition at the Orkney Museum this summer. OAS is delighted… Read More
Young Archaeology Club relaunch
YAC relaunch session on Sunday – with Dan Lee from Orkney Energy Landscapes Project Please email yacorkney@gmail.com to register &… Read More
Report of the 2023 Viking week.
Vikings are fun! Far from just being fierce warriors, the 4th Orkney Viking Week, which took place 10-17 September, explored… Read More
Amazing new find in Orkney
Archaeologists say they have uncovered the ruins of an “incredibly rare” 5,000-year-old tomb in Orkney. The Neolithic site at Holm,… Read More
OAS Grant helps fund report
The OAS Grant comittee supplied a grant to help Karen Hardy to carry out some sample collecting from the Orkney… Read More
Brochtober 2023
All the four talks from this year’s Brotoberfest are avilable to watch for free on our Youtube playlist Broctoberfest if… Read More
Video: Nick Card – 2023 Talk on the Ness of Brodgar
Each year before the Ness dig begins, Nick Card, the site director at the Ness, gives a free talk in… Read More
Over the Edge – by Jeanne Bouza Rose
From the web site: “I have tried to give enough information about the media used and the measurements of each… Read More
Video: OAS Legacy Talk – David Clarke and Prof Mark Edmunds
The range of archaeological endeavour through centuries of investigations, both antiquarian and professional, provides a rare history of the subject.… Read More
A great OAS Walk over Bookan
About twenty people, members and otherwise enjoyed a free and very informative if windy walk by the Dyke of Sean… Read More