Yearly Archive: 2018

The end is nigh…can you help?

As we enter the last week of the 2018 season, we would like to ask for some help from anyone free on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next week (August 22, 23 and… Read more

The Ness in the news…

Some links to recent news stories and articles: Elisabeth Holder – Working Away British Archaeology Magazine – the printed magazine features a review of Woody Musgrove’s new book, Ness of… Read more
Three of the five polished stone axes found on site this summer. See them, and more, at Sunday's Open Day.

Treasures on display at Open Day

This weekend will see our final Open Day of the 2018 season. Amongst other things, on display will be the axes, macehead, spatulas and incised stones found this year –… Read more
Trench T midden

‘Midden’ by Kate Greene

  for weeks the Neolithic midden clung to my clothes, hair, and skin or lay embedded in fingerprints, under fingernails, in open cuts now it’s falling off slowly as dust… Read more

‘Milk, Beef and Beer’

Feast Diane Eagles – Artist in residence Three ritual feasting vessels, entitled Milk, Beef and Beer, are endowed with symbolic references to Neolithic ceramics and the Ness of Brodgar. They are… Read more

Dig Diary – Thursday, August 9, 2018

Day Twenty-Nine Joining the dots in ‘bling central’ We haven’t mentioned Structure Eight much lately. Formerly known as “bling central” because of the extravagance of the artefacts found within it… Read more