All change around 2500/2400 BC? End of the ‘Scottish Neolithic’ and the future of Neolithic studies The last of this ...
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‘Not just a load of old balls’: Late Neolithic developments and the creation of a new world order In this ...
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An everyday story of country folk? In this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures, Dr Alison Sheridan ...
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The Big Picture and Regional Narratives In this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures, Dr Alison Sheridan ...
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Neolithic Scotland: Changing Perceptions, New Approaches, Plethora of Data, and Contested Narratives In this year's Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s ...
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Video: Book launch event and talk
After months of hard work, the Ness of Brodgar interim monograph was launched at a special, socially distanced, event in ...
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Video: ‘Neolithic Carved Stone Balls in context’
Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, curator of prehistory (Palaeolithic to Neolithic) at the National Museums of Scotland, and Mark Hall, history officer ...
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Looking forward to our new book
Nick and Anne introduce our forthcoming interim monograph, The Ness of Brodgar: As it Stands. Due for release on November ...
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Carved Stone Balls – experimental archaeology workshop with Chris Gee
Chris Gee, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, discusses the creation of Neolithic carved stone balls ...
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Stories in Stones – 2020 Orkney Science Festival Talk
In this talk for the 2020 Orkney Science Festival, Professor Mark Edmonds considers some of the stone artefacts from the ...
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The Science of the Ness – 2020 Orkney Science Festival talk
In this talk for the 2020 Orkney Science Festival, site director Nick Card outlines the scientific techniques involved in excavation ...
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Stone spatulate tools from the Ness of Brodgar – research presentation
The spatulate stone tools found at the Ness over the past few years were the subject of a research project ...
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A talk by Dr Scott Timpany of the Archaeology Institute UHI on prehistoric woodlands preserved within intertidal peats around the ...
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The trouble with Cuween: human remains from Neolithic Orkney
Do we have evidence of ritualised violence at Cuween? A video lecture from Dr Rebecca Crozier, well-known in Orkney for ...
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‘Orkney – The Ness of Brodgar’ – website premiere of 2016 film
A beautiful short film produced by Evan Cobb and Aaron Phillips, from the University of Missouri, during their time at ...
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Diary extra – Around the Ring of Brodgar
It's a beautiful day in the West Mainland of Orkney. One of those very rare summer days when there's hardly ...
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Dig director Nick on Neolithic carved stone balls
With replicas of the carved stone bone from Structure Ten going on sale online today, Ness of Brodgar excavation director ...
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From the archives – Re-opening Trench P
One from our video archive - work getting under way uncovering and cleaning up Trench P in July 2010 ...
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Video – Ness presentation at Shanghai awards ceremony
In November 2019, the Ness of Brodgar excavation project was selected for a 2019 Shanghai Archaeology Forum Field Discovery Award ...
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Looking back it's incredible to see the changes in the site over the past 12 years! This short video - ...
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Video – Ness flyaround: July 2019
Harking back to the balmy summer days of July 2019. A drone flyaround of the site, with excavation in full ...
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Video – Day Twenty-One: Around the Trenches
A brief snapshot of what was a busy day on site ...
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After a day basking in glorious sunshine, Orkney's weather does what it does best - change! Gales, rain and thunder ...
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Drone aerial footage of the Ness of Brodgar excavation site today from Professor Scott Pike of Willamette University, Oregon, USA ...
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Video – Sunshine over Trench J
After a week of wet and windy weather, great progress was made in Trench J, and across the entire site, ...
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Video – Digging cancelled due to weather
Day Four of the 2019 season. The weather hasn't been kind to us at all so far this year, but ...
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Day Two of the 2019 excavation season and work continues removing the protective covers from the Neolithic structures in Trench ...
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‘The Appliance of Science’ – pre-dig lecture available online
Last week's pre-excavation lecture, in Kirkwall, by site director Nick Card. The talk, hosted by the Orkney Archaeology Society, was ...
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A splendid video from BBC Archives, featuring Cathal O'Shannon touring the Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae ...
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(Since posting this, we've learned it is not available to viewers outside Europe. Sorry to our non-European followers) A beautiful ...
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From Stirling Castle to the Ness of Brodgar…
Neil Oliver chooses five fascinating places to visit in Britain Click here to read the full article from BBC History ...
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The Summer Wind – Ness excavation 2013
The 2018 excavation season was blessed with nearly two months of uninterrupted sunshine and fair weather. How easy it is ...
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A shorter than usual offering today - things got rather busy, once the rain had cleared ...
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Video – Drone ascent from Trench J
An overview of the entire excavation site from Trench J - containing Structure Five and the northern corner section of ...
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