‘We want to understand the people of the past’ – a video flashback to the summer of 2016
A flashback to 2016 with a beautiful short film produced by Evan Cobb and Aaron Phillips during their time at the Ness of Brodgar …
Video: A visit to Maeshowe 60 years ago
Another from the BBC Archive, again featuring Cathal O’Shannon but this time visiting the Maeshowe chambered cairn in Stenness …
Video: TV presenter’s thoughts on Skara Brae during 1964 visit
A splendid video from BBC Archives, featuring Cathal O’Shannon visiting the Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae …
Thursday throwback: excavation under way in Trench P in 2015
We’ve got a blast from the past this evening after recovering a forgotten (and assumed lost) cache of video footage from a defunct hard drive …
‘Rediscovering a lost Neolithic tomb’ – OAS talk recording now online
The recording of the Orkney Archaeology Society (OAS) talk on the rediscovery and excavation of a Maeshowe-type chambered cairn in Holm …
Drone views of Structure Twenty-Seven
Drone footage of Structure Twenty-Seven from Professor Scott Pike and Jim Rylatt …
Video: Structure Twenty-Six flyaround
Jim Rylatt’s latest drone video, this week focusing on the much-later building Structure Twenty-Six, which lies between Structures Ten, Twelve and Thirty …
Video – Structure Twelve drone flyaround
Another short video from Ness supervisor Jim Rylatt, this one a drone orbit of Structure Twelve in Trench P …
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 …
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 …
