Posts under ‘Westray Archaeology’

Looking out across the Knowe o’ Skea where an important Iron Age burial site gives tantalising clues about the culture of our ancestors.

Archaeologist Sean Rice holds a piece of neolithic grooved ware on the Links of Noltland.

Wandering along the beach at Grobust on Westray in Orkney I spot a group of people with wheelbarrows kneeling in the sand dunes. It can only be the archaeologists.
Neolithic grooved-ware pottery, worked bone objects, stone tools and flint abound, with a series of interconnecting buildings revealed in the unstable dunes.