Category: News

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Tour Guide of the Year accolade at inaugural Orkney Tourism Awards

The Ness of Brodgar picked up the award for Tour Guide of the Year at Saturday’s inaugural Orkney Tourism Awards in Kirkwall. Organised by Destination Orkney, 13 awards were presented… Read more

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

‘Landscapes Revealed’ shortlisted for Current Archaeology Book of the Year

The UHI Archaeology Institute’s book Landscapes Revealed: geophysical survey in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Area, 2002-2011 has been nominated for Book of the Year in the Current… Read more

The south-eastern end of the Ness of Brodgar. (Jim Richardson)

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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Ness dig helps earn Orkney a place on Best UK Places to visit list

Next year’s excavation at the Ness of Brodgar is among the attractions that have earned Orkney a place on the “15 best places to visit in the UK in 2023”.… Read more

Excavation / News

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

2023 excavation dates set

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the first building at the Ness of Brodgar and we’re delighted to confirm that the dates for next year’s excavation have been… Read more

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Friday, September 23, 2022

2022 excavation at the Ness commended in Scottish Parliament

Orkney MSP Liam McArthur has lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament welcoming the successful completion of another excavation season at the Ness of Brodgar. This is the third time… Read more

Links / News / Post-excavation

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Link: Prehistoric Orkney grain sheds light on Neolithic farming in Scotland

House Three at the Braes of Ha’Breck showing the areas of burnt grain. (📷 Antonia Thomas/Dan Lee) Our UHI Archaeology Institute colleagues Dr Antonia Thomas and Dan Lee are the… Read more

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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Two new books from Mark Edmonds

News just in of two new books by our friend Mark Edmonds, Visiting Professor at the UHI Archaeology Institute and Research Coordinator at the Ness of Brodgar. The first,… Read more

Art Hut / News / Video

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Science Festival premiere for Ness of Brodgar artist’s film

A film created by Ness of Brodgar artist in residence Dr Karen Wallis was premiered today as part of the 32nd Orkney International Science Festival. Since 2016, Karen has… Read more

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Monday, August 15, 2022

Can you spare a few hours to help us cover the site this week?

Do you have a couple of hours (or more) to spare on Thursday, August 18, or Friday, August 19? Yes, it’s that time of year again when we call for … Read more

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Friday, July 29, 2022

Join us on Sunday for Open Day

Our 2022 Open day takes place on Sunday, July 31, on site, in the Stenness school and Maeshowe visitor centre. We hope to see many of you on the… Read more

News

Friday, July 1, 2022

Visiting the Ness this summer? What you need to know

For the first time since 2019, all three main trenches at the Ness of Brodgar will be opened this summer – but although the covers start coming off on Monday,… Read more

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Sunday, June 26, 2022

Appeal for volunteers to help open the trenches

With just a week to go until we’re back on site, we’re looking for some hardy volunteers to help us open up the trenches. So if you would like to… Read more

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Thursday, April 14, 2022

Reproduction axehead auction raises £600 for Ness dig

The auction of a reproduction flint axehead, donated by the family of Edinburgh-based sculptor and stone carver Andy McFetters, has raised £600 for the Ness of Brodgar excavation… Read more

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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Site tours and an open day returning to the Ness this summer

We’re delighted to announce that this summer, for the first time since 2019, we will be offering daily site tours of the Ness dig. The excavation re-opens to the public… Read more

Exhibition / News

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

‘World of Stonehenge’ offers a brief opportunity to step out of our century…

Jo Bourne is a London-based supervisor and photographer at the Ness of Brodgar. In 2013 she uncovered the ‘butterfly’ stone beside the northern annexe of Structure Twelve. We asked her… Read more

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Monday, February 7, 2022

Sponsor a Find – a new batch

Back in November 2021, we launched a new fundraiser Sponsor a Find. The idea was that we periodically give you the choice from several Ness of Brodgar finds to sponsor… Read more

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Friday, January 14, 2022

The passing of a great archaeologist

With great shock and numbing sadness we learned today that archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones has passed away. Caroline, a great supporter of the Ness and Orkney’s archaeology as a whole, will… Read more

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Friday, December 10, 2021

Macehead auction raised £260 for excavation fund

The auction of a wooden replica of a Neolithic macehead has raised £260 for Ness of Brodgar excavation funds. Created by Orcadian woodturner Michael Sinclair, the stunning macehead and… Read more

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Friday, November 19, 2021

Shop additions, a new ‘Sponsor a Find’ fundraiser and Christmas last order dates

We’ve had a busy week and have launched a new fundraiser Sponsor a Find. The idea is that we periodically give you the choice from several Ness of Brodgar finds… Read more

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Friday, September 17, 2021

Touching our ancestors – the Ness and the SPOTtimespotTIME artwork

By Elaine Robinson Having had a lifelong interest in archaeology, imagine my excitement from the point of view as an artist who has been collecting fingerprints since 2015, when my… Read more

Clare excavating the animal bone beneath the quernstone fragment she found yesterday. The bone, like most found at the Ness, was poorly preserved. This makes identification difficult but it appears to be a cattle vertebra. (Sigurd Towrie)

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Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Ness MRes studentship now available at UHI Archaeology Institute

A part-funded Masters by Research (MRes) studentship focusing on the faunal assemblage at the Ness of Brodgar is now available at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute. … Read more

Polished stone tools (Hugo Anderson-Whymark)

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Thursday, September 2, 2021

31st Orkney International Science Festival begins today with Ness talk scheduled for Sunday

The 31st annual Orkney International Science Festival begins today, Thursday, September 2, and runs until September 8. On Sunday, September 5, the Dr Raymond Lamb Memorial Lecture is entitled… Read more