Around the Ness: The Ring of Bookan
By Sigurd Towrie “The Ring of Bookan, in the same neighbourhood [as the Ring of Brodgar], appears to be a similar platform, but it is enclosed with an earthen vallum, and exhibits abundant traces...
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UK Festival of Archaeology gets under way
The second part of the Council for British Archaeology’s Festival of Archaeology kicks off today, Saturday, October 24. The festival, now in its 29th year, offering hundreds more opportunities to get involved in archaeology...
‘The Ness of Brodgar – As it Stands’ available to pre-order
Our interim monograph, The Ness of Brodgar – As it Stands, is now available to pre-order. The book, which provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Ness of Brodgar excavations, is due to...
Wednesday wildlife – above, beneath and on the water
Another selection of photographs from the camera of dig director Nick Card.
Around the Ness: Howastedgarth
By Sigurd Towrie We finished last week with George Marwick’s claimed “old name” for the Ring of Brodgar – Howastedgarth. I first stumbled across it in 2012, in a transcription of a talk given...
Carved Stone Balls – experimental archaeology workshop with Chris Gee
Chris Gee, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, discusses the creation of Neolithic carved stone balls. This video was made during the Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH)...
Buildings through time: Structure Ten
The latest in our series looking at the excavation of each major building over time focuses on Structure Ten. See also 3D model of Trench P.
Around the Ness: The Ring of Brodgar
By Sigurd Towrie “[In Stenness] beside the lake are stones high and broad, in height equal to a spear, and in an equal circle of half a mile.” Jo Ben. Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum. c1529...
Buildings through time: Structure Twelve
The next in our series looking at the excavation of each major structure over time focuses on Structure Twelve.
November date set for launch of Ness interim volume
A new book providing a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Ness of Brodgar is due to be published next month. Excavation at the Ness began in 2006 and the project’s interim monograph, The...
