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to the website of the Orkney Archaeological Trust.
Our Mission
"The Orkney Archaeological
Trust will provide a high quality, professional, archaeology service.
It will enthuse, involve and educate Orkney people, visitors and others." |
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Pictures
and Papers in Honour of Daphne Home Lorimer MBE.
Click HERE
to read. |
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Now
available - details of this years Westray dig. View pictures and read
the diary by clicking here. |
The
amazing Minehowe Discovery - as documented in the Time Team
Programme, follow the story of the amazing Minehowe discovery
as it unfolded in the online Dig Journal 2000. OAT is an official
Mine Howe site with details of the developments and discoveries
of the excavation. |
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Trust is a registered charity which was founded in 1996 to provide
the Islands with the archaeological service its magnificent ancient
monuments deserve. It acts as a focus for professional and educational
research into these sites and monuments. It exists through the
efforts and cooperation of individuals and organisations as well
as through a network of friends. |
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The
Heart of Neolithic Orkney - recognised for World Heritage Site
status in 2000 |
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Find out more about the Trust
- support us in protecting Orkney's wealth of archaeology by becoming
a Friend of OAT.
Also on this site - Orkney's main monuments and blow by blow accounts
of 1998's Crantit Tomb
excavation and 1999's
Stonehall and Crossiecrown digs. |
