Orkney Archaeology Review 2025

The annual Orkney Archaeological Society publication looks at archaeological and heritage work undertaken in the islands the previous year.

This year, the UHI Archaeology Institute contributions are a summary of the final season of fieldwork at the Ness of Brodgar, an article by Martin Carruthers on theRoman glass found at the Cairns and Professor Colin Richards’ article on the late Professor Lord Colin Renfrew’s impact on Orcadian Neolithic studies.

The full contents of the 2025 review, the tenth in the series, are:

• The last season excavating at the Ness of Brodgar
• The resurrection of the Tomb of the Eagles
• Blomuir – a lost passage tomb found
• Sanday wrecks and shivered timbers
• Memoir of excavation in Orkney
• Review: Stone Circles – A Field Guide
• A Glass Act: Late Roman vessel glass fragments from the Structure B complex at The Cairns Iron Age settlement
• Orkney Museum: new acquisitions
• The Saga of the Earls of Orkney – a new translation
• Marjery Isobel Platt
• Colin Renfrew and the Orcadian Neolithic – an appreciation