Dig Updates

Day Three Farewell, old friend . . . Today was a momentous day at the Ness. Not just because it stopped ...
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Day Two And the rain came down Today it rained. And rained, and rained and rained. Then it rained some ...
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Day One We're back and raring to go! The tyres, black plastic and sandbags, which have protected 5,000 years of ...
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With the 2015 excavations on the Ness of Brodgar due to kick off next week, a call has gone out ...
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The first book to tell the story of the Ness of Brodgar excavation site - from its discovery, in 2003, ...
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Trawling though my photograph archive (while looking for something entirely different) I came across the original pictures, from April 8, ...
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A new article, written by Andrew Learmonth, about preparations for this season's excavation has been posted on Orkney.com. Click here to ...
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Nick Card at work on site. (Picture: Jim Richardson) The Ness of Brodgar excavation director was back in the USA ...
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This summer, artefacts from the Ness of Brodgar will form a major new exhibition, which opens this weekend at the Stromness ...
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Thanks to public support and fundraising, this year’s excavation at the Ness of Brodgar has been extended from six weeks ...
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Day Twenty-Seven Done for another year That’s it, folks. With great sadness we have to say that this is the ...
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Day Twenty-Six Appeal for volunteers We have job opportunities today, very rare ones, which only occur just once a year ...
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