The first-ever Orkney Archaeology Festival lands 10–14 Sept 2025!
Explore Orkney’s rich past with 28 events:
🔹 Guided walks
🔹 Site tours
🔹 Talks & workshops
🔹 Family fun & more
Full programme online soon
With @UHIArchaeology, @welovehistory, @OrkneyCouncil
#Orkney #Archaeology #festival
Explore Orkney’s rich past with 28 events:
🔹 Guided walks
🔹 Site tours
🔹 Talks & workshops
🔹 Family fun & more
Full programme online soon
With @UHIArchaeology, @welovehistory, @OrkneyCouncil
#Orkney #Archaeology #festival
July 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The first-ever Orkney Archaeology Festival lands 10–14 Sept 2025!
Explore Orkney’s rich past with 28 events:
🔹 Guided walks
🔹 Site tours
🔹 Talks & workshops
🔹 Family fun & more
Full programme online soon
With @UHIArchaeology, @welovehistory, @OrkneyCouncil
#Orkney #Archaeology #festival
Explore Orkney’s rich past with 28 events:
🔹 Guided walks
🔹 Site tours
🔹 Talks & workshops
🔹 Family fun & more
Full programme online soon
With @UHIArchaeology, @welovehistory, @OrkneyCouncil
#Orkney #Archaeology #festival
Delighted to share the film of our January talk by Paul Sharman, Regional Archaeologist here at @OrkneyCouncil
#orkney #archaeology
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#orkney #archaeology
youtu.be/nQ-L4seaYhs?...
Role of an archaeologist
YouTube video by Orkney Archeology Society
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February 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Delighted to share the film of our January talk by Paul Sharman, Regional Archaeologist here at @OrkneyCouncil
#orkney #archaeology
youtu.be/nQ-L4seaYhs?...
#orkney #archaeology
youtu.be/nQ-L4seaYhs?...
Today we have launched the Orkney Archaeology Festival programme. Tickets for some events are required, and also now live on Eventbrite. Follow this link for the programme. Great to work with friends @UHIArchaeology @welovehistory and @OrkneyCouncil
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orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/events/?fbcl...
Events from April 23, 2019 – August 6, 2019 – Orkney Archaeology Society
orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk
July 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Today we have launched the Orkney Archaeology Festival programme. Tickets for some events are required, and also now live on Eventbrite. Follow this link for the programme. Great to work with friends @UHIArchaeology @welovehistory and @OrkneyCouncil
orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/events/?fbcl...
orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/events/?fbcl...
Fantastic to meet Liz Robertson from the mighty @I_W_M today and show her around the treasures of Scapa Flow! @OrkneyCouncil
November 13, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Fantastic to meet Liz Robertson from the mighty @I_W_M today and show her around the treasures of Scapa Flow! @OrkneyCouncil
The Orkney Native Wildlife Project, a collaboration between @Natures_Voice, @NatureScot, and @OrkneyCouncil, is dedicated to safeguarding the islands' rare wildlife. Join the fight to protect these precious species! Learn more: https://buff.ly/3CcVV7u #WildlifeConservation #Orkney #nature #wildlife
Conservation project fights to protect Orkney Vole - Discover Animals
A groundbreaking partnership between the RSPB, NatureScot and Orkney Islands Council, the Orkney Native Wildlife Project (ONWP) is fighting to protect the islands’ rare and increasingly threatened…
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November 4, 2024 at 6:00 PM
The Orkney Native Wildlife Project, a collaboration between @Natures_Voice, @NatureScot, and @OrkneyCouncil, is dedicated to safeguarding the islands' rare wildlife. Join the fight to protect these precious species! Learn more: https://buff.ly/3CcVV7u #WildlifeConservation #Orkney #nature #wildlife
Now that they’re safely under cover, we can pause and work out a conservation plan to ensure we have them for another hundred years. I’m pretty sure there are only five German naval guns from the #FWW in the UK and at @OrkneyCouncil we have three of them! How lucky are we?
November 13, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Now that they’re safely under cover, we can pause and work out a conservation plan to ensure we have them for another hundred years. I’m pretty sure there are only five German naval guns from the #FWW in the UK and at @OrkneyCouncil we have three of them! How lucky are we?
I am so proud and excited to tell you I’m moving straight from one dream job to another ❤️ I’m going 900 miles due north to join @OrkneyCouncil as Team Leader (Culture), responsible for @OrkneyMuseums marvellous museums, visitor centres and interpreted sites. 2/
November 13, 2024 at 4:33 PM
I am so proud and excited to tell you I’m moving straight from one dream job to another ❤️ I’m going 900 miles due north to join @OrkneyCouncil as Team Leader (Culture), responsible for @OrkneyMuseums marvellous museums, visitor centres and interpreted sites. 2/
Day 1 and first day at the office for @OrkneyCouncil (actually today the office is the 0800 boat to Hoy!)
November 13, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Day 1 and first day at the office for @OrkneyCouncil (actually today the office is the 0800 boat to Hoy!)
First day in the office @OrkneyCouncil Not a bad start to the commute after the weekend’s gales! #firstday #newboy #foundthecarpark
November 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM
First day in the office @OrkneyCouncil Not a bad start to the commute after the weekend’s gales! #firstday #newboy #foundthecarpark
Well 1st week @OrkneyCouncil done! Learned loads, made some decisions, met more people than I can remember & LOVED diving right into the exciting #ScapaFlowMuseum redevelopment. Nice to be working with old friends @StudioMBdesign again too! More next week, watch this space ;)
November 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Well 1st week @OrkneyCouncil done! Learned loads, made some decisions, met more people than I can remember & LOVED diving right into the exciting #ScapaFlowMuseum redevelopment. Nice to be working with old friends @StudioMBdesign again too! More next week, watch this space ;)
Well this has been an exciting second week working for @OrkneyCouncil at #ScapaFlowMuseum Really good to get these incredibly rare and fragile German guns from the #FWW safely undercover, so we can dry them out and work out a future for them.
November 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Well this has been an exciting second week working for @OrkneyCouncil at #ScapaFlowMuseum Really good to get these incredibly rare and fragile German guns from the #FWW safely undercover, so we can dry them out and work out a future for them.
Thrilled to get my copy of this fab book produced by @StromnessMuseum for #Scapa100 My piece unites my reviews of wartime collections held by @OrkneyCouncil & SM, completed 8 years apart. I always wanted to come to these fascinating, beautiful islands permanently & here I am! ❤️
November 13, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Thrilled to get my copy of this fab book produced by @StromnessMuseum for #Scapa100 My piece unites my reviews of wartime collections held by @OrkneyCouncil & SM, completed 8 years apart. I always wanted to come to these fascinating, beautiful islands permanently & here I am! ❤️
This week’s Orcadian - another exciting sign that our brand new #ScapaFlowMuseum is motoring down towards opening! @OrkneyCouncil
November 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
This week’s Orcadian - another exciting sign that our brand new #ScapaFlowMuseum is motoring down towards opening! @OrkneyCouncil
Another beautiful commute home! Two weeks away from opening the new #ScapaFlowMuseum & excitement is building, here’s a couple of teasers. Feel free to guess but I’m not telling you if you’re right 🤣 We can’t wait to welcome you after 2 July, it’s looking amazing @OrkneyCouncil
November 13, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Another beautiful commute home! Two weeks away from opening the new #ScapaFlowMuseum & excitement is building, here’s a couple of teasers. Feel free to guess but I’m not telling you if you’re right 🤣 We can’t wait to welcome you after 2 July, it’s looking amazing @OrkneyCouncil
So now that it’s all public I can FINALLY tweet pictures of the new #ScapaFlow Museum. What an absolute privilege it has been to help my amazing @OrkneyCouncil colleagues see this one over the line. We open TOMORROW! Can’t wait to see what people think :)
November 13, 2024 at 2:31 PM
So now that it’s all public I can FINALLY tweet pictures of the new #ScapaFlow Museum. What an absolute privilege it has been to help my amazing @OrkneyCouncil colleagues see this one over the line. We open TOMORROW! Can’t wait to see what people think :)
We finally have a full curatorial TEAM again @OrkneyCouncil ! @cavitcooke and @baikiejnr hard at work on the CMS, not staged at all… 🙄
November 13, 2024 at 2:17 PM
We finally have a full curatorial TEAM again @OrkneyCouncil ! @cavitcooke and @baikiejnr hard at work on the CMS, not staged at all… 🙄
I am VERY proud of the photo I just took visiting our fabulous Farm Museum at Kirbuster. The sunrays were really co-operating and I only used a teeny bit of “dramatic” filter! @OrkneyCouncil Comms colleagues, let me know if you want the rights ;)
November 13, 2024 at 2:17 PM
I am VERY proud of the photo I just took visiting our fabulous Farm Museum at Kirbuster. The sunrays were really co-operating and I only used a teeny bit of “dramatic” filter! @OrkneyCouncil Comms colleagues, let me know if you want the rights ;)
Absolutely fantastic to welcome @DirectorGenNMRN of @NatMuseumRN to #Orkney as a guest of @OrkneyCouncil to explore our amazing museums and naval heritage. “Louis I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship!” #watchthisspace
November 13, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Absolutely fantastic to welcome @DirectorGenNMRN of @NatMuseumRN to #Orkney as a guest of @OrkneyCouncil to explore our amazing museums and naval heritage. “Louis I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship!” #watchthisspace
Lovely light at #ScapaFlowMuseum today ❤️ #OrkneyCouncil @orkneycom Moving some big stuff around and adding some interesting things for next season, watch this space! #DreamJob
November 13, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Lovely light at #ScapaFlowMuseum today ❤️ #OrkneyCouncil @orkneycom Moving some big stuff around and adding some interesting things for next season, watch this space! #DreamJob
So this happened! Our 15cm SKL/45 from SMS Bremse arrived back at the Scapa Flow Museum after months of painstaking conservation by the extraordinary Ian Clark. Doesn’t it look amazing? Available to see from 1 March :) @OrkneyCouncil now calm down @jerijerod14
November 13, 2024 at 1:48 PM
So this happened! Our 15cm SKL/45 from SMS Bremse arrived back at the Scapa Flow Museum after months of painstaking conservation by the extraordinary Ian Clark. Doesn’t it look amazing? Available to see from 1 March :) @OrkneyCouncil now calm down @jerijerod14
Exciting to be representing #ScapaFlowMuseum with @baikiejnr at the @nature_scot event in #Inverness. So grateful to have been given #NCHF #ERDF funding for our project. @OrkneyMuseums @OrkneyCouncil
November 13, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Exciting to be representing #ScapaFlowMuseum with @baikiejnr at the @nature_scot event in #Inverness. So grateful to have been given #NCHF #ERDF funding for our project. @OrkneyMuseums @OrkneyCouncil
Exciting work going on up here today - not a normal day in the office! Details next week, keep an eye on our feeds @NatMuseumRN @OrkneyMuseums @OrkneyCouncil
November 13, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Exciting work going on up here today - not a normal day in the office! Details next week, keep an eye on our feeds @NatMuseumRN @OrkneyMuseums @OrkneyCouncil
Slit trenches & mortar pits, part of an elaborate defence line constructed in 1940 on Wee Fea hill to defend the @RoyalNavy base at Lyness against a surprise attack from SW coast of #Hoy #ScapaFlow #Orkney #WW2 Poorly camouflaged historian for scale. @OrkneyCouncil @NatMuseumRN
November 13, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Slit trenches & mortar pits, part of an elaborate defence line constructed in 1940 on Wee Fea hill to defend the @RoyalNavy base at Lyness against a surprise attack from SW coast of #Hoy #ScapaFlow #Orkney #WW2 Poorly camouflaged historian for scale. @OrkneyCouncil @NatMuseumRN