Augmented reality at Cladh Hallan, South Uist. The UHI Archaeology Institute team behind Uist Unearthed is looking for an assistant for the next stage of the award-winning, virtual archaeology project. The full-time position, which runs from January 2026 to May 2027, is to help deliver the new Barra and Harris Unearthed project. Since it was launched in 2021…

A group from the UHI Archaeology Institute travelled down to Inverness at the weekend for the 2025 Highland Archaeology Festival.

Two chapters from UHI Archaeology Institute contributors feature in a new book looking at social and economic interaction in the medieval and early modern European countryside. #thinkUHI #research

The archaeology of Uist is the subject of a new book by the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Dr Rebecca Rennel and Dr Emily Gal.

'Animating the Dead: An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney' by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards follows decades of research and incorporates new excavation results and radiocarbon dates from sites across the county.

Friday afternoon saw a field trip to the recently re-opened “Tomb of the Eagles”, led by Professor Colin Richards.

October's story sharing event in the TRANSECTS project focuses on whales and whaling in Orkney.

Dr Antonia Thomas will be giving two guest lectures during a brief visit to Norway this week.

The next of our online seminars, which features Dr Reid Weber, takes place on Friday, September 26, from 4-5pm.

Some photographs of Saturday's excursions to the Knowes of Trotty as part of the first Orkney Archaeology Festival.

Three new industrial heritage surveys added to our 'From Peat Spade to Tangle Trade' section.

UHI MLitt graduate Kat Nickola presented her research at the annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) last week.

The TRANSECTS project is seeking embedded artist(s) for workshops and a mini-residency roles to explore marine energy transitions and coastal community resilience in Orkney.

UHI Archaeology Institute students were among the volunteers at the ongoing excavation of a Neolithic chambered cairn in Orkney’s East Mainland.

For the fifth year in a row our MA in Contemporary Art and Archaeology secured a 100 per cent satisfaction rating in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey.

It’s been another exciting week of excavation at the Iron Age Swartigill site, with some remarkable finds and intriguing developments within the structures.

A short video from Jim Rylatt showing the Stone of Setter in the Eday landscape.

A summary of the first week of excavation at Swartigill, Caithness, from director Rick Barton.

A new model, courtesy of UHI Archaeology Institute PhD student Logan O'Brien, of the Sanday Neolithic structure at the end of the 2025 dig last week.

The 2025 dig at Skaill farm, Rousay, ended on July 25. Here project co-director Dan Lee provides a summary of the third and final week.

Join us for an informal session of sharing stories, photographs or objects relating to Orkney's role in the oil industry on Saturday, August 30, in the King Street Halls, Kirkwall.

That's this season's dig finished, the trench backfilled and we're beginning to get packed up for the journeys home.

The penultimate day of excavation saw a buzz across the site as we race to get as much done before backfilling the site on Friday.

Our first pottery, an elusive wall section and a spectacular flaked stone adze!

The second and final week of this demanding, but rewarding, field season got under way today with a full complement of student diggers and volunteers on site.