Anna Ritchie obituary (opens in new tab)

Archaeologist whose excavations in Orkney included Knap of Howar, with domestic buildings more than 5,000 years oldIn 1970, on the far north-west corner of Mainland, Orkney, erosion threatened a low mound opposite the tidal island of the Brough of Birsay, a site of Pictish and Viking settlement. The potential significance of this mound at Point of Buckquoy prompted a rescue excavation, and the young archaeologist called in to mount that operation was Anna Ritchie.In this, her first project as...