Category: Video

History Hit TV

Video: The Ness on History Hit TV

  Historian Tristan Hughes visited the Ness of Brodgar this summer, to film for the History Hit TV programme Mysteries of Prehistoric Scotland: Stone Age Orkney. Although the full programme… Read more
A heat-affected chunk of red sandstone found in Structure Ten. This was located beside the 'painted' orthostat mentioned yesterday and may have been used to create the red pigment. (Sigurd Towrie)

Video – ‘Why Rocks?’

Orkney International Science Festival talk by Dr Martha Johnson, highlighting the Ness of Brodgar rocks that don’t fit the local geology, and showing clues to their origins. Read more
Three of the five polished stone axes found on site this summer. See them, and more, at Sunday's Open Day.

Video – ‘The Ness in Rock and Stone’

Today's Orkney International Science Festival talk featuring Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card, Dr Ann Clark and Dr Antonia Thomas of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute. Read more
Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 6

Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 6

All change around 2500/2400 BC? End of the ‘Scottish Neolithic’ and the future of Neolithic studies   The last of this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures,… Read more
Rhind Lecture 2020 Number 5

Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 5

‘Not just a load of old balls’: Late Neolithic developments and the creation of a new world order   In this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures,… Read more
Rhind Lecture 4

Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 4

Making sense of funerary monuments and funerary practices   In this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures, Dr Alison Sheridan is bringing together the most up-to-date research… Read more
Rhind Lectures - No 3.

Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 3

An everyday story of country folk?   In this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures, Dr Alison Sheridan is bringing together the most up-to-date research to show… Read more