The Rackwick Survey (2014/2015) was undertaken by Dan Lee of the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA), University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute. Dan worked with the community over two summers recording 174 sites and monuments. Find out more here.
For these then and now photographs, Dan Lee and Karl Reid worked with Orkney Library & Archive and Hoy Archive images and rephotographed the sites.
Use the slider below to travel back and fore through time.
The Rackwick Survey was funded by the Orkney Islands Council and Orkney Archaeology Society.
How clever! Loved this. Beautiful Rackwick. Thank you for posting this and your new website looks great.
Hi Wendy, we are so lucky to have this site,
Hello Shelley, indeed we are. Rackwick is special in so many ways, especially as the birthplace of our great great grandfather Daniel Rich.
Glad you are enjoying that Wendy. Dan and Karl did an amazing job retracing the original photographs.