The Ness in 3d

Skara Brae 3D model

Visit Skara Brae virtually with new digital 3D model

A new 3D model of Skara Brae is offering online visitors an immersive digital experience of the 5,000-year-old Neolithic settlement …
Structure Five 3D model

Structure Five in 3D

A new, fully-interactive 3D model of Structure Five created by Trench J supervisor Paul Durdin. Earlier models of the building, the earliest excavated on site to date, can be viewed and compared here …
(Sigurd Towrie)

New 3D model of Structure Twelve pot sherd’s decorated face

A new week…a new 3D model. On July 19, we shared the model of a huge Grooved Ware pot sherd from outside the blocked-up north-west entrance to Structure Twelve. The interactive model was created by …
(Sigurd Towrie)

It’s large, it’s Grooved Ware and now available as a 3D model

Dig Diary – Day Sixteen Monday, July 19, 2021 We have a real treat for you today. You will recall we told you last week about the very large Grooved Ware pot which Chris excavated …
Wideford Hill chambered cairn

Wideford Hill chambered cairn

Just under three miles to the east of Cuween Hill, on the steep, upper slopes of Wideford Hill, is a second Neolithic passage grave …
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

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