October 21

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We've concluded our outdoor events for the year and now turn our attention to working inside. We have a programme of talks for the upcoming dark months starting with our AGM the 29th of this month which will feature a special Halloween talk from Paul Moar, author of Shetland's Trolls and Giants. This will be fun.

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The theme for the year's outdoor events evolved into one of geophysics with many thanks to officer Valerie Ward. Beginning with Uyea, we moved onto Cullingsburgh on Bressay and finally to Gletness in Nesting. Here, coupled with some small scale excavation with Dr Ellie Graham from the University of Aberdeen, we found an Aethelred II coin - the northernmost find of an Anglo-Saxon coin in the UK. Neat.

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May 30

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Another year of outdoor fun has begun. We started the year with a clean and record at Channerwick broch in late April. Winter storms caused a rather large collapse so we documented the changes. This was followed late in May with a walk to the Wards of Mucklure on the west side for a look at the unique maritime compass petroglyph followed by an examination of the sheltered Quinni Geo where a likely related Hanseatic trading booth once stood. You can read about it here. Upcoming in June will be geophysics at Uyea in Northmavine and later in the summer we will be visiting a Neolithic/Bronze Age landscape as well as take in the southern edges of the Neolithic axe factory with many other events mixed in.

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We'll see you out there!

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