Day Two
Water, water everywhere…
After the excitement and manual labour of day one, day two was just manual labour. There were tyres and sandbags to move and the swathes… Read more
Day One
Rain, gales..oh my!
We’re back!
It hardly seems like ten months since we last saw the wonderful structures at the Ness of Brodgar in all their glory.
In… Read more
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
Archaeologists and volunteers will return to the Ness of Brodgar next week for the thirteenth year of excavation. The covers come off the trenches on July 1, with the site… Read more
Last week’s pre-excavation lecture, in Kirkwall, by site director Nick Card.
The talk, hosted by the Orkney Archaeology Society, was entitled The Appliance of Science.… Read more
With just one week to go before excavation resumes, we’re appealing for help from anyone free on July 1 and 2.
To re-open the Ness for the 2019 season, we… Read more
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
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
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 has… Read more
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
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
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
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
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 of… Read more
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
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 stunning brass petrospheres… Read more
(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
Eagle-eyed Cecily has recovered another beautiful find from the flotation residues. After last week’s tiny bead, this time she has found a small fragment of thin flagstone, unusually decorated on both… Read more
Sometimes it’s the small things that astound — like this tiny stone bead discovered today.
Measuring circa 2mm in diameter, the bead must have taken a steady hand and a… Read more