Video Archive

The south-eastern end of the Ness of Brodgar, showing the position of the excavation site. (Scott Pike)

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 swing. (Scott Pike) …

Video – Trench T and Structure Twenty-Seven

A short video from this afternoon …
It was all go inside Structure Ten today. (Sigurd Towrie)

Video – Day Twenty-One: Around the Trenches

A brief snapshot of what was a busy day on site …

Hit by the weather again!

After a day basking in glorious sunshine, Orkney’s weather did what it does best – change! Gales, rain and thunder saw excavation work cancelled this morning. It’s forecast to improve in the afternoon, so hopefully …

Video – Drone site flyaround

Drone aerial footage of the Ness of Brodgar excavation site today from Professor Scott Pike of Willamette University, Oregon, USA …

Video: A damp day on site

Video - Sunshine over Trench J

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, under bright sunshine today …
Video - Digging cancelled due to weather

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 was so bad today that all digging operations had to be cancelled …
Video - Uncovering Trench P

Video – Uncovering Trench P

Day Two of the 2019 excavation season and work continues removing the protective covers from the Neolithic structures in Trench P …