This Sunday, we’ll be celebrating 200 years of RNLI with a mass parade of Pipe Bands in Stromness 🚤

The volunteers crewing lifeboats throughout Orkney have been essential to our community for decades.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4bgrglR

📸RNLIStromness and Leslie Smith

The first episode of a new podcast looking at life in #Rousay , past and present, is now live.
archaeologyorkney.com/2024/05/03/rou…
#Orkney #Podcast #ThinkUHI #UHIOrkney

After months of work and preparation, our new exhibition opens in the Orkney Museum tomorrow, Saturday.
nessofbrodgar.co.uk/exhibition-202…
#Orkney #Neolithic #NessOfBrodgar #ThinkUHI #UHIOrkney

OAS were delighted to fund the publication of this book from our Legacy Fund - and can't wait to get our hands on a copy #orkney #Archaeology

The #Orkney Nature Festival returns in May to celebrate our natural world 🦅 🐳 🦭

From wildlife walks and snorkelling safaris, to the NorthLink Ferries Nature Cruise, there's a packed programme of events 🤩

Find out more 👇 #VisitOrkney
orkney.com/news/orkney-na…

Brilliant opportunity, and your last chance! #Orkney #Archaeology

Fantastic site. Do not miss if you are over in Hoy

And they’re off – operation to move exhibition artefacts gets under way.
nessofbrodgar.co.uk/big-move-begin…

Donated Skara Brae excavation documents bound for the Orkney archives
nessofbrodgar.co.uk/skara-brae-hou…

Would you like to help us create a snorkel trail for #Orkney ? Join us and Stromness Museum, online on the 16th April or in person on the 18th May, to share your thoughts. shorturl.at/nINPX

Orkney Library Orkney Islands Council Liam McArthur MSP orkney.com BBC Radio Orkney Orkney Archaeology

Summer exhibition update and more on new book due later this month.
nessofbrodgar.co.uk/summer-exhibit…

This year's OAS AGM is on Thursday 30th May, on zoom at 7pm. After the AGM business is complete we are delighted to have a talk by Dr Dockrill and Dr Bond on the continuing dig Swandro Orkney. Get your free link to the AGM and talk here orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/event/agm-2024… all welcome

You might have heard Erland Cooper on 'Around Orkney' yesterday, talking about his programme with storyteller Tom Muir for BBC Radio 3 exploring the legend of Hildaland.

You can hear the programme here bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

economist.com/culture/2024/0…

#Swandro
Swandro Orkney
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Bradford Archaeology and Forensics Historic Environment Scotland Dig It! Orkney Archaeology

In the 1980s, two #Neolithic settlements were excavated in the island of #Sanday . Today we briefly look at Pool on the island’s south-western coast.
nessofbrodgar.co.uk/pool-sanday/
#Orkney #Archaeology #Excavation

Brilliant idea

Congratulations to Ness of Brodgar Excavation , Swandro Orkney and Nick Card - very well deserved on all counts

There's a sense of spring in the air across #Orkney 🌱

These snowdrops at Binscarth Woods are a sure sign that the seasons are set to change 🤍

#VisitOrkney #ScotlandIsCalling

Fabulous news

Ancient shipwreck washes up on Orkney beach bbc.in/42JVzyl
#Orkney