Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card is one of the speakers at next weekend’s Current Archaeology Live event. The annual conference, which is taking place online this year, brings together leading archaeological...
“Nowhere, except in Egypt or at Pompeii, is a prehistoric settlement to be found, the streets, huts and even domestic furniture of which are in such perfect preservation” Professor V. Gordon Childe. Letter to...
Readers might be interested in a free online lecture running next Thursday, February 25, at 5pm (GMT) The Society of Antiquaries of London lecture, The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project and the Durrington Walls Pits...
A definite wintry feel to this week’s offering from site director Nick Card.
New to the Ness of Brodgar? Wondering what the excavation is all about? Here’s our new seven-minute video summary of the site.
To celebrate the vernal equinox, the beginning of spring, we will be posting a new lecture by Nick about the Ness, on Saturday, March 20. We’ve been unable to make the lecture till now...
Although visitors can’t come to Orkney at present due to the Covid pandemic travel restrictions, we’re all looking forward to a time when things get back to some semblance of normality. So if you’re...
The Ness of Brodgar interim monograph has been hailed a “stunning accomplishment” by Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology magazine. In his review in the March/April issue, he highlights that the book “has much...
We’re under a thick blanket of snow at the moment, so this week its a few of site director Nick’s photographs from late January, when things were not quite so cold.
“We know little about most of the mounds around the Ring, though the clustering is enough to demonstrate that proximity was important.” Mark Edmonds. Orcadia: Land, Sea and Stone in Neolithic Orkney. 2019. ...
We’ve been in the grip of some cold weather, meaning iced-up loch sections. But as these pictures from site director Nick Card show, the daily hunt for food involved a little less swimming than...
“…on the day itself, at the death of one year and the birth of the next, the sun drops onto the top of the Barnhouse Stone…” Mark Edmonds. Orcadia: Land, Sea and Stone in...
