Dig Updates

Structure Eight under investigation. (ORCA)
A new section outlining the the evidence for stone "tiled" roofs at the Ness and what these might have looked ...
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Picture: Sigurd Towrie
The site of what is now Trench P in April 2003. (📷 Beverley Ballin Smith) The 20th anniversary of Structure ...
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Picture: Jim Richardson
If you want to see the site while excavation is in progress, there is just one more season to visit ...
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Excavating Orkney and Shetland - Current Archaeology
A selection of Orkney excavation highlights from the archives of Current Archaeology magazine. Click to read ...
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Picture: Jo Bourne
During the 2022 excavation season another section of the northern boundary wall, or "Great Wall of Brodgar", was exposed. The ...
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Structure Ten team 2022
“We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past” Heinrich Schliemann ...
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Structure Eight's entrance
Unlike other Ness buildings, Structure Eight stands out as having a single entrance. Measuring over 18 metres long by 9.5 ...
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Structures Seventeen and Eighteen are two earlier buildings (c3200BC) that pre-date, and lie beneath, Structure Eight (c3100BC). A focus of ...
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Picture: Sigurd Towrie
The "butterfly" motif has been found incised into numerous stones and surfaces across the site, and this year was no ...
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Picture: Jo Bourne
We have a growing collection of tiny "thumb pots" at the Ness, and another two were found this summer within ...
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Picture: Jo Bourne
This was one of the special events at the Ness in 2022, when Suzy Angus made us a sound poem ...
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Structure Five (Scott Pike)
Two covered depressions on either side of the blocked south-western entrance were found to be large, well-built post-holes, indicating that ...
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