A rare Iron Age belt-hook and comb are among the artefacts recovered by University of Bradford archaeologists and students during this summer’s excavations at the Knowe of Swandro on Rousay, Orkney. The team have been investigating the site since 2017…
• The Knowe of Swandro: racing against time and tide in Orkney
• Archaeology and the National Trust
• St Bartholomew the Great: London’s oldest surviving parish church
• Arminghall Henge: a burnt timber circle from prehistoric Norfolk
• Excavating a Bronze Age barrow and a Roman ‘shrine’ in Overstone
In the concluding part of our Orkney trilogy (see also CA 394 and 395), Carly Hilts reports on her visit to the Knowe of Swandro on Rousay, where Julie Bond and Caz Mamwell took her through the latest findings from this long-lived but rapidly eroding site.