UHI Archaeology Institute

UHI Archaeology Institute is an academic department of the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland.

The institute was founded in 2014, expanding on the archaeology department hosted by Orkney College, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands.

[2][3] The UHI started running undergraduates programmes in archaeology in 2011.

[4] The institute was created to carry out teaching and research, with a branch providing commercial archaeology services, the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) which was founded in 2007 and is registered with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists.

Excavations at the Ness of Brodgar and investigations across the World Heritage Site led by UHI Archaeology Institute led to news coverage and increased tourism to Orkney.

A large rectangular trench in which a group of people are digging or recording archaeological features.
Excavations at the Ness of Brodgar in 2017