Categories: Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment, Field Schools, History and Culture, Local Community Outreach, Orkney: Gateway to the Atlantic, United Kingdom
The Swandro – Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust is racing against time and tide to excavate and record the site at the Knowe of Swandro, in the Orkney island of Rousay. Every winter the Atlantic gales take more of the site – a largely undisturbed Neolithic chambered tomb, with Iron Age roundhouses and Pictish buildings.
The Swandro – Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust is racing against time and tide to raise the money necessary to excavate and record the site at the Knowe of Swandro, in the Orkney island of Rousay. Every winter the Atlantic gales take more of the site – a largely undisturbed Neolithic chambered tomb, with Iron Age roundhouses and Pictish buildings. We owe it to our ancestors and future generations to record these burials and houses before they are lost forever to the encroaching ocean. As part of the Gateway to the Atlantic Project a number of coastal erosion sites were selected for investigation on the Island of Rousay. Due to the vulnerability of the remains at Swandro, work has concentrated on the investigation of this site.
