Video Archive

(📷 Tom O'Brien)

Video: Excavation site flyover

Another drone video from Ness supervisor Jim Rylatt – a flyover of the dig site from the south-eastern end of the Brig o’ Brodgar and featuring all three of the main trenches …
(📷 Canmore)

Video: Rock art in the Holm of Papa Westray South

The fifth, and final, UHI Archaeology Institute’s Tombs of the Isles recorded talk, again featuring Dr Antonia Thomas, the Ness project’s Neolithic art specialist …
(📷 Sigurd Towrie)

Video: Passage grave art in the North Isles of Orkney

The fourth of the UHI Archaeology Institute’s ‘Tombs of the Isles’ recorded talks, and the second featuring Dr Antonia Thomas, the Ness’ Neolithic art specialist …
📷 Ole Thoenies

Video: Art and architecture in Neolithic Orkney – a talk by Dr Antonia Thomas

The third of the UHI Archaeology Institute’s ‘Tombs of the Isles’ recorded talks, this time featuring Dr Antonia Thomas, the Ness’ Neolithic art specialist …
Quanterness reconstruction

Video: Death and burial in Neolithic Orkney (Part Two)

The second part of Professor Colin Richard’s talk for the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Tombs of the Isles project …
(📷 Tom O'Brien)

Time lapses in Trench P

A set of three time-lapse videos of Trench P from John Leith …
Unstan cairn, Stenness, Orkney. (Adam Stanford. www.aerial-cam.co.uk)

Video: Death and burial in Neolithic Orkney (Part One)

The first part of Professor Colin Richard’s talk for the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Tombs of the Isles project …
Structure Ten (Jim Rylatt)

Video – Circling Structure Ten

Another video from Ness supervisor Jim Rylatt, this time focusing on Structure Ten – the last major construction on site and built around 2900BC …
Tom O'Brien

Video – Drone view of Structure Eight

Another of Jim Rylatt’s drone videos, this time focusing on Structure Eight, the longest of the piered buildings excavated on site …

Video – Structure One from above

Another short video from Jim Rylatt, this time a 360-degree flyaround of Structure One, the first building found on site back in March 2003. Note that the walls at the building’s northern end are much …