With 2020 drawing to a close, we have been receiving queries from visitors and interested volunteers about the 2021 excavation season. Unfortunately, due to the ongoing restrictions surrounding Covid-19, we still don’t know what...
An earlier building Based on shared architectural elements, Maeshowe has given its name to a specific class of chambered cairn. Characterised by side cells branching off from a central chamber accessed by a long,...
For the next in our series looking at the excavation of each major building on site over time, we jump across to Trench T and the enigmatic Structure Twenty-Seven. See also 2016 – Trench...
Sadly, a week ago today, the body of Pinkie, the dog otter, was found by the side of the Stenness loch. He had died of natural causes. Site director Nick captured these images in...
By Sigurd Towrie Part One “But the most remarkable tumulus in Orkney is situated to the north-east of the Ring of Stenness and is called M’eshoo or Meashowe (sic).” Lieutenant F. W. L. Thomas....
Book review by Dr Howie Firth MBE, director of the Orkney International Science Festival. It was a spring ploughing that did it, in Ola and Arnie Tait’s field at Brodgar in 2003. The plough...
After months of hard work, the Ness of Brodgar interim monograph was launched at a special, socially distanced, event in Kirkwall last night. Discovered in 2003, excavation at the Neolithic complex began in...
Excavation at the Ness of Brodgar began in 2005 and The Ness of Brodgar: As it Stands features contributions from University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute staff as well as specialists from...
We were deeply saddened to learn that one of our regular team members, Fraser Dixon, has passed away. Fraser was one of our regular “meet-and-greet” volunteers during the summer excavation seasons and a familiar,...
UPDATE: This piece has been sold. Watch this space for further Ness collaborations in the coming months Michael Sinclair, Orcadian, member of the Register of Professional Woodturners, makes exquisite and unique woodturned pieces, many...
With just days to go until its official launch, signed copies of The Ness of Brodgar: As it Stands are now available to order via our online shop, priced £35.99. Edited by Nick Card,...
