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    • Jan 9
    • 3 min

    Happy New Year

    139
    • Nov 14, 2021
    • 3 min

    Visualising Heritage at Swandro

    255
    • Nov 19, 2020
    • 6 min

    Something fishy this way comes...

    169
    • Apr 25, 2020
    • 7 min

    Musings in honour of World 'Save the Frogs' Day

    182
    • Nov 16, 2019
    • 4 min

    Post-excavation or what we do in the winter

    217
    • Oct 22, 2019
    • 4 min

    Looking back to the summer on a two-towel Orkney day

    421
    • Apr 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    Summer is just around the corner...

    123
    • Jan 29, 2019
    • 6 min

    More Vikings! The mystery of the Swandro Sword

    2,697
    • Nov 28, 2018
    • 3 min

    Swandro on Digging for Britain

    216
    • Nov 7, 2018
    • 4 min

    In the cold November rain

    109
    • Sep 29, 2018
    • 4 min

    Flotation tank blues

    232
    • Sep 3, 2018
    • 3 min

    Post-dig roundup

    234
    • Jun 25, 2018
    • 1 min

    Manna from Heaven? No - apples from Andrew!

    105
    • Jun 23, 2018
    • 1 min

    Soggy Swandro Saturday

    101
    • Jun 19, 2018
    • 2 min

    D-Day minus seven & counting

    303
    • Jun 11, 2018
    • 2 min

    Flints, hammer stones & saddle querns - more interesting than it sounds

    165
    • May 19, 2018
    • 4 min

    Taversoe Tuick Tomb

    163
    • May 18, 2018
    • 3 min

    Thank you from the Swandro Diggers!

    80
    • May 12, 2018
    • 2 min

    Quoyness chambered tomb on an apple a day

    157
    • Apr 24, 2018
    • 2 min

    Viking Bead from Swandro

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    Rained off today...
    • 2 days ago

    Rained off today...

    Finally we have archaeology!
    • 3 days ago

    Finally we have archaeology!

    Voids and cracked stones
    • 4 days ago

    Voids and cracked stones

    Recalcitrant tents, dissolving greyhounds and an endless supply of rock
    • 5 days ago

    Recalcitrant tents, dissolving greyhounds and an endless supply of rock

    Bit breezy today
    • Jun 26

    Bit breezy today

    Sun, sea and sandbags
    • Jun 25

    Sun, sea and sandbags

    Seaweed, stones & anteaters, just another day's fun at Swandro
    • Jun 24

    Seaweed, stones & anteaters, just another day's fun at Swandro

    Sweltering stone shifting in 21 degree heat - we may melt
    • Jun 23

    Sweltering stone shifting in 21 degree heat - we may melt

    Groundhog day - serried ranks of wheelbarrows...
    • Jun 22

    Groundhog day - serried ranks of wheelbarrows...

    Shopping, saddle querns & sandbags
    • Jun 21

    Shopping, saddle querns & sandbags

    Follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road...
    • Jun 20

    Follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road...

    Happy New Year
    • Jan 9

    Happy New Year

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    Swandro - Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust 

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    Patron: His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, the Duke of Rothesay

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