Category: News
Neolithic bull putting in appearance at County Show
Just how big were the cattle consumed at the Ness of Brodgar in prehistory?
Drop by the County Show, in Kirkwall, tomorrow, Saturday and you’ll be able to see for… Read more
Site closed and no tours on Saturday
On Saturday, August 10, members of the Ness excavation team will be manning a stall at the County Show in Kirkwall (more details later this week).
Because of this the excavation site… Read more
Links from the Art Hut…
At present we have three artists in residence-on-site.
Here are links to their blogs/websites etc:
Karen Wallis – website
Karen’s blog – featuring her drawings, sketches and paintings created on… Read more
A photographic record of the 2017 dig
A book documenting the 2017 dig at the Ness of Brodgar is now available.
Ness of Brodgar: Open to the Public, by Woody Musgrove, is a photographic record of the… Read more
Prize Draw painting completed and ready to raffle…
Ness of Brodgar artist-in-residence Karen Wallis has completed the oil painting she is donating to the 2019 Ness of Brodgar Trust Grand Draw.
The painting, pictured above, is just… Read more
Link: ‘Stunning’ decorated Neolithic stone discovered in Orkney
A link to the BBC article on this week’s finds from Structure Eight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-49030379… Read more
Your flight bookings can help raise much-needed excavation funds
If you are planning a trip this summer, did you know that you can use #easyfundraising to raise FREE donations for the Ness of Brodgar Trust with over 60 airlines!
All… Read more
Prehistoric pottery firing at Kirbuster Farm Museum
If you have visited the Ness, the chances are you will have seen one of the 90,000 pot fragments recovered from the site to date.
But if you have ever… Read more
We’re back on site for 2019
Ten months have flown past and we’re back on site!
It’s a grey, blustery and damp morning and the first task facing the team is the removal of this lot from… Read more
Article link: The Orkney farmer who dug the world-famous Ness of Brodgar – 80 years before anyone else
A link to The Scotsman’s article on Peter Leith: https://www.scotsman.com/heritage/the-orkney-farmer-who-dug-the-world-famous-ness-of-brodgar-80-years-before-anyone-else-1-4951519
See also: 1925 ‘Brodgar stone’ was a taste of things to come… Read more
First bottle of Ness whisky raises £300 for dig funds
The first bottle of the limited-edition Ness of Brodgar’s Legacy whisky was auctioned at tonight’s pre-dig lecture and raised £300 for excavation funds.
Bidding, which started at £100, was brisk… Read more
Ness spatulas in the research spotlight…
The spatulate stone tools found at the Ness over the past few years are the subject of a new research project this summer.
Archaeology Institute UHI undergraduate Gary Lloyd… Read more
Welcome boost for Ness funds from Highland Park limited edition whisky launch
Ness excavation funds will benefit from the launch of a limited edition bottling of Highland Park whisky.
A percentage of the proceeds from sales of the 5,000 bottles of Ness… Read more
Ness pre-excavation talk 2019 – a reminder
A quick reminder that this year’s pre-excavation lecture by site director Nick Card takes place next week.
The Appliance of Science will take place, in the Orkney Theatre, Kirkwall, on… Read more
Archaeological flavour to 2019 student art show
There’s a distinct archaeological flavour to the forthcoming exhibition of Orkney College UHI exhibition of student work.
Among the exhibiting students is BA Fine Art student Samantha Gray, who has… Read more
Ness of Brodgar 2018 sketchbook online
Artist-in-residence Karen Wallis’s 2018 sketchbook of drawings is now online, through the link on her website homepage at www.karenwallis.co.uk.
Karen will be back on site this summer for her fourth… Read more
More coloured pottery from the Ness
The remarkable Neolithic ceremonial site at the Ness of Brodgar has a habit of springing surprises on those who work there.
Ceramics specialist Roy Towers from the Archaeology Institute… Read more
Ness donors – thank you all
Since we sent out last month’s newsletter (if you have not signed up yet, click here) we’ve had a number of generous donations to the Ness excavation funds.
To respect… Read more
Turning a petrosphere…
Long-time supporters of the Ness Michael and Sara Sinclair have posted a video showing the creation of one of their wooden petropsheres.
The auction of one of Michael’s… Read more
Orkney – The Queen’s Isles
(Since posting this, we’ve learned it is not available to viewers outside Europe. Sorry to our non-European followers)
A beautiful documentary on Orkney, from ARTE.
The film-makers visited the Ness… Read more
