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Talk: How the OAS Ages of Orkney characters were created.
Alex Leonard and the archaeologists who were involved in creation of OAS promotional characters talk about the creative process.
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Talk: Viking Graves
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by Professor James Graham-Campbell A rare opportunity to hear Professor James Graham-Campbell one of the foremost experts on Vikings, will be talking to us on Viking Graves. This is a talk which is part of the Viking Festival. This was filmed in Orkney in 2024
Talk: What's New with Orkney Finds?
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By Dr George Prew This talk gives a brief overview of the Treasure Trove system in Scotland and how it functions. Outlining areas of specific significance and materials handled, the personnel involved and some of the big changes to the unit over the last year. The presentation will include of some of the particularly interesting cases of objects which have come through the process from Orkney i...
Swandro 2024
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Talk at the OAS 2024 AGM by the Swandro Team
Re-discovering a Lost Neolithic Tomb in 2023
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By Hugo Anderson-Whymark of the National Museum of Scotland Last years discovery of a Neolitic tomb in Orkney with several skeletons in it.
OAS Brochtoberfest 2023 - Forging Resources:
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An investigation of wood-fuel resources for Iron Age Metalworking in Northern Scotland. Talk by Sara Marinoni
OAS Brochtoberfest 2023 - Iron Age excavations at Swartigill
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Talk by Rick Barton
OAS Brochtoberfest 2023 - The Cairns: What have we learnt so far
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Talk by - Martin Carruthers
OAS Brochtoberfest 2023 - Wheelhouse in Shetland
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Talk by Stephen Jennings
Professor Mark Edmonds and David Clarke in conversation.
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A series of conversations is proposed between currently active archaeologists and the scholars who have sought to interpret and understand Orkney’s past through excavations in previous decades. The first guest will be Dr David Clarke, hosted by Prof Mark Edmunds in front of an audience in Orkney. Dr Clarke is renowned for his work at both Skara Brae and Links of Noltland in the 1970s. He is a w...
Ness of Brodgar Talk 2023 by Nick Card
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Nick Card Site director of the archaeological dig Ness of Brodgar in Orkney. Gives his annual Pre-Dig talk for the Orkney Archaeological Society in 2023. This is the first of a series of profesionally filmed talks in the OAS Legacy Project. If you like our content then please subscribe.
Shooting the Neolithic: The archaeology and digital heritage of the Orcadian Neolithic
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OAS AGM 2023
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OAS AGM 2023
The Hall of Clestrain: The Answer Lies in The Drains
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OAS talk by Andrew Appleby President of the John Rae Society. If you like our content then please subscribe.
OAS Broctoberfest Talk: Ellie Graham - A trio of Eroding Shetland Brochs
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Brochtoberfest 2022 talk: Paul Jack - “Iron for the Isles”
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Brochtoberfest 2022 talk: Paul Jack - “Iron for the Isles”
People of the Broch
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People of the Broch
Brochtoberfest: Shetland's Sea Roads Esther & Marc 15Oct21
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Brochtoberfest: Shetland's Sea Roads Esther & Marc 15Oct21
Brochtoberfest: What the shell is happening Holly Young 14Oct21
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Brochtoberfest: What the shell is happening Holly Young 14Oct21
Brochtoberfest: Spinning a yarn Amber Rivers 13Oct21
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Brochtoberfest: Spinning a yarn Amber Rivers 13Oct21
Brochtoberfest: Cultivating the Divine
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Brochtoberfest: Cultivating the Divine
Brochtoberfest A Haunted House, Dealing with the Dead at The Cairns Broch
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Brochtoberfest A Haunted House, Dealing with the Dead at The Cairns Broch
Viking Tourism in Orkney
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Viking Tourism in Orkney
Legal Customs in the Orkeyinga saga
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Legal Customs in the Orkeyinga saga
Thorfinn the Mighty
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Thorfinn the Mighty
Meet the author: Lexie Conyngham, Orkneyinga Murders
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Meet the author: Lexie Conyngham, Orkneyinga Murders
St Magnus Graffiti Talk 26 May 2021 by Antonia Thomas
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St Magnus Graffiti Talk 26 May 2021 by Antonia Thomas
OAS AGM 26 May 2021 - with subtitles
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OAS AGM 26 May 2021 - with subtitles
OAS Talk : Life & Times of The Cairns Martin Carruthers 28 Apr 2021
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OAS Talk : Life & Times of The Cairns Martin Carruthers 28 Apr 2021
JRS Talk 24Mar21
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JRS Talk 24Mar21

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  • @naradaian
    @naradaian 5 місяців тому

    What a lovely presentation

  • @naradaian
    @naradaian 5 місяців тому

    Were these islands ever covered in trees? I thought not...But no archaeogist ever tells what energy/fuel/tree species was providing all these fires Deer would not be thriving much on windswept islands. SO....Are the deer from the mailand¿ isotope work on some animals is needed

  • @naradaian
    @naradaian 5 місяців тому

    Great please film the fotos and diagrams for much longer. We all know the stomach profile of the speaker but it takes at least a minute to read the diagrams

  • @darranwilkins4648
    @darranwilkins4648 6 місяців тому

    its not a farming communitty the obvious cattle bones is proto hearding theses peoples were anti farmers for obious reasons now hearders i beliver would have sowed seeds on there way and from this realisation we get those that broke off to ve de fault farmers now orkney they wear making heards people cantbeasily steal your cattle wehen on on island esspecialy with no preadators these islands were corals as such wear people became rich and as said leuise brings spledour

  • @dawnhilton1513
    @dawnhilton1513 6 місяців тому

    Wow that neolithic wall is jaw dropping, well done.❤

  • @timothyfrost6543
    @timothyfrost6543 8 місяців тому

    Fascinating…. plus I’ve learnt how to pronounce Holm!

  • @msibm4823
    @msibm4823 9 місяців тому

    How to contact Nick Card....In Malaysia Country have 2millions tuyure..

  • @kenkyukai100
    @kenkyukai100 Рік тому

    no mention of John gater ?

  • @markthomas8766
    @markthomas8766 Рік тому

    It will be interesting to see if the people who did all the construction are the one civilisation, or group, or if they are different groups.

  • @sleepingsealproductions
    @sleepingsealproductions Рік тому

    I have been anxiously awaiting this video. Thanks for posting it. Very exciting and interesting. I also love how in the acknowledgements at the end, everyone has a last name except Travis, but we all know who Travis is!

  • @owentaylor9884
    @owentaylor9884 Рік тому

    A series of self ventilation building constructed at varying degrees in order to assess the most efficient direction at right angles to the prevailing winds..

  • @davidhugo9564
    @davidhugo9564 Рік тому

    Great detective work - thanks Hugo and Vicki

  • @KelvynTaylor
    @KelvynTaylor Рік тому

    Great talk, thank you, and good look for future excavations!

  • @aussie405
    @aussie405 Рік тому

    Thank you

  • @aliceleftley4659
    @aliceleftley4659 Рік тому

    Great pity that the questions section so tantalising!!

  • @sleepingsealproductions
    @sleepingsealproductions Рік тому

    Wonderful conversation. Thanks.

  • @sleepingsealproductions
    @sleepingsealproductions Рік тому

    excellent talk. thank you.

  • @johnstringer5359
    @johnstringer5359 Рік тому

    Absoltly astonishing

  • @larrywalker3811
    @larrywalker3811 Рік тому

    I appreciate this lecture very much. I'm the translator of Prof. Torgrim Titlestad's "Viking Legacy" (Norge i Vikingtid") and I found this video while researching my own next novel. This was helpful. My own take on the Thorfinn/Macbeth question is that if Thorfinn was the same person as Macbeth, then the saga is wrong about Thorfinn's death. It says Thorfinn died in bed, while we know Macbeth to have died in battle. I have a great deal of trouble believing that a saga writer would forget about a Viking hero dying in battle.

  • @ataraxisbuildsthings429
    @ataraxisbuildsthings429 Рік тому

    Great talk - it is actually possible to buy a separate drive that can still read floppy discs if anyone has any previously thought of as obsolete discs laying about!

  • @21ShelbyGT500
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    Thank you for this video, ive been trying to learn more about Thorfinn

  • @djwbushcraftbusiness1016
    @djwbushcraftbusiness1016 3 роки тому

    That was an unexpected little gem! I had been watching an American youtuber, talking about a brief history and heritage of the Island, and his name came up, so I did a quick search and clicked on your channel. I think the whole saga idea is definitely something I like as nothing else lasts longer than pen and ink. Easy to follow with lots of detail and colourful in more ways than one. Thankyou very much!

  • @angersay
    @angersay 3 роки тому

    Excellent video. I believe as an Orcadian fiercely proud of my Norse Heritage that more needs to be done at grassroots level here in Orkney with regards to Education. The Viking age in Orkney was worthy of its own saga but is only given lip service by locals and incomers alike. Heritage is something that is felt as much as anything and I don't think in this day and age it is encouraged. We live in a place where we spoke a completely different language in Norn but recently wanted to teach our kids Gaelic? (Why not Nynorn?) We live in a place where we gather to wave Norwegian flags but have little understanding of the independence felt through generations at the time,and conflict we had with Norway to keep the independence in check? From place-names and surnames being forgotten and watered down to the forgetting of history that is uncomfortable to some, I fear that the "Norse Heritage " will ultimately go the way of Norn. In terms of tourism, the sites will be reduced to just a list of names and a few piles of stones. We never touch on how the Scots earls treated the indigenous Norse population after annexation but look to see how the Norse affected the picts? I work at the St Magnus Centre and there is a huge thirst for information on our Norse Heritage out with the building itself (I have been guilty of pointing out some disparities between St Magnus's Saga and others at the time) Shetland started burning a boat in 1881 ( just after our language died) and has a far greater sense of it's Norse Heritage than we do (despite being an outpost when it wasn't part of the earldom) They have a lot more pride than what we do for some reason? I'd like to see the Norse part of our history embraced (warts and all) before it is forgotten. I'd also like people to stop putting horns on helmets 🤣

    • @fionawilson3500
      @fionawilson3500 3 роки тому

      I totally agree with you comments. When I was at school we were told about how we were treated by the Scots earls and that when we were pawned to Scotland we entered the dark ages. But then, we were taught about our own history and even one the books we had to read in English was Njal's Saga. Yes our language Norn should be taught rather than Gaelic. We need to take more pride in our Norse Heritage and promote it, if Shetland can do it so can we. The Fire Festival held in 2015 in Stromness was a great success and should be a regular feature.

    • @grahamfleming8139
      @grahamfleming8139 3 роки тому

      The old gaelic name for Orkney was innse orc or islands of the boar and Shetland was called innse cat or islands Of the cat people was firmly part of pictland, and. was only part of vikings world for 5 hundred years much the same of much of Scotland. Ogham an old gaelic tree language and scattered through the islands are gaelic Christian hermitages? So why not learn gaelic alang wi Norse ? SCOTLAND along wi Orkney should seriously consider the Nordic Council! Orkney islands have a rich history back to neolithic times.

    • @angersay
      @angersay 3 роки тому

      @@grahamfleming8139 The pictish population of Orkney is wide open to debate as it is thought that the population of Orkney in pictish times could perhaps have been the original iron age population but under pictish rule. (682AD there is an account of a pictish king " brude son of bili" "ravaging" Orkney) The lack of pictish place-names might also suggest that the population was small at the time of the Norse arriving (already ravaged?) Your point about Gaelic arriving with Christianity makes no sense to me either as Irish monks travelled all over (non Gaelic speaking Europe) Gaelic has never been spoken here. Old Norse and subsequently Norn was.

    • @grahamfleming8139
      @grahamfleming8139 3 роки тому

      @@angersay the old gaelic for Orkney comes from it innse orc and was adopted by the viking invaders gaelic was originally spoken in the faroes and Iceland innis tile before the vikings Ogham has been found through out North America( tir nan og) certainly the original blood lines of Orkney are not viking but much of modern Scotland is!

    • @fionawilson3500
      @fionawilson3500 3 роки тому

      @@grahamfleming8139Why should we learn gaelic and for that matter Orkney and Shetland should be independent of Scotland and the UK.

  • @samuelboon8795
    @samuelboon8795 3 роки тому

    Hi could i find out more info on the sea battle of roebury south ronaldsay between thorfinn and rollo...( Im not sure on the spelling also) thank you p.s. really enjoyed the talk/story.

  • @timmackenzie9714
    @timmackenzie9714 3 роки тому

    Wonderful talk!

  • @bythewindsailors4462
    @bythewindsailors4462 3 роки тому

    Thankyou Martin

  • @estherromo7689
    @estherromo7689 3 роки тому

    Very interesting! Thank you

  • @hippyruth
    @hippyruth 4 роки тому

    Like the statue behind you 😊

  • @Rob1337
    @Rob1337 5 років тому

    Fantastic thanks for sharing :)