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Race to save Iron Age settlement from the sea

Archaeologists on one of the Orkney Islands are working in a race against time to excavate an Iron Age roundhouse before it is lost to the sea.
The Swandro site on Rousay could hold key information about the life of people from the Picts to the Vikings but every time the tide comes in another vital part of history is swept away.

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