The Ness in 3d

Interior of the Cuween chambered cairn, Firth, Orkney. (📷 Jim Richardson)

Cuween chambered cairn

The Cuween cairn is built on an artificial terrace on the upper slopes of Cuween Hill’s eastern side. Cuween is a Maeshowe-type cairn consisting of a “roughly rectangular” central chamber with four smaller cells branching …
Maeshowe interior. (Jim Richardson)

Maeshowe

Probably the best-known Neolithic chambered cairn in Orkney, Maeshowe stands less than a mile to the east of the Ness of Brodgar complex …
Unstan Stalled Cairn

Unstan stalled cairn, Stenness

In the late 19th century, the Knowe of Onston was opened and found to contain the remains of a Neolithic stalled cairn …
Ness carved stone ball in 3D

Ness carved stone ball in 3D

A 3d photogrammetry model, by Hugo Anderson-Whymark, of the carved stone ball found at the Ness of Brodgar excavation site, by Molly Bond, on August 7, 2013 …

3D model of Trench T and Structure Twenty-Seven

Trench J in all its 3D glory…

 Trench J, and with it Structures Five and Thirty-Two and the “Great Wall of Brodgar”, may have been covered over today, but you can …

3d model of possible standing stone outside Structure Twelve

The annexe outside the eastern entrance to Structure Twelve, complete with possible standing stone. (Jim Bright) …

Dig Diary Extra – 3D model of yesterday’s decorated stone

Decorated Stone Removed from Structure Eight/Seventeen on July 15, 2019 …

Trench J in 3D

An updated model of Trench J – containing Structure Five and a section of the “Great Wall of Brodgar” – created by supervisor Paul at the end of this season’s excavation. To view an earlier …

Structure One in 3D