Dig Diary Extra – Drone footage from Trench T
Two videos from Professor Scott Pike, of Willamette University, Oregon, USA, showing a drone ascent from Structure Twenty-Seven in Trench T – one ending with a view to Hoy across the Stenness loch, the second …
Orkney International Science Festival talk by Dr Martha Johnson, highlighting the Ness of Brodgar rocks that don’t fit the local geology, and showing clues to their origins …
Video – ‘The Ness in Rock and Stone’
Today’s Orkney International Science Festival talk featuring Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card, Dr Ann Clark and Dr Antonia Thomas of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute …
Dig Diary Extra: Dr Jo McKenzie successfully recovers first timber sample
A video of Jo recovering the first of two Neolithic timber samples from the interior of Structure Twelve today. Apologies for the sound quality – the Orcadian wind is impossible to escape, even in the …
Dig Diary extra: the Ness of Brodgar’s seaweed-eating sheep and the European context
The recording of last Friday’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, looking at the analysis of sheep and deer teeth from the Ness of Brodgar. The seminar, entitled 5,000 years of waiting for the tooth fairy …
Structure Twenty-Seven: A video introduction
A new video introducing the enigmatic Structure Twenty-Seven at the bottom of Trench T …
Ness of Brodgar at Current Archaeology Live!
Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card is one of the speakers at this weekend’s Current Archaeology Live! conference and awards. The annual conference, which is taking place online this year, brings together leading archaeological …
The Ness dig – a video introduction
New to the Ness of Brodgar? Wondering what the excavation is all about? Here’s our new seven-minute video summary of the site …
