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A UNIVERSITY of Bradford-led excavation dubbed ‘a race against time and tide’ has been named Rescue Project of the Year by Current Archaeology…
A team of archeologists have been trying to save the evidence of a Viking settlement in Orkney from being washed away by the sea.
ORKNEY, SCOTLAND—According to a report in The Scotsman, archaeologists Julie Bond and Stephen Dockrill of Bradford University are concerned that excavation delays caused by the pandemic will result in the significant loss of archaeological information at the 5,500-year-old Knowe of Swandro, which is located on the coast of the island of Rousay. “Every year we are getting big erosion events with storm surges coming into the site and taking material away,” Dockrill said. “The other thing is that the daily tide is coming in and out and every time archaeological material is going into so...