Stone roofing at the Ness of BrodgarA new section outlining the the evidence for stone "tiled" roofs at the Ness and what these might have looked ...Read More Monday, March 20, 2023 / Excavation, StructuresFirst Ness excavation report available to mark 20th anniversary of discoveryThe site of what is now Trench P in April 2003. (📷 Beverley Ballin Smith) The 20th anniversary of Structure ...Read More Wednesday, March 15, 2023 / Downloads, ExcavationNess dig ending in 2024 when focus shifts to post-excavation workIf you want to see the site while excavation is in progress, there is just one more season to visit ...Read More Monday, March 6, 2023 / Excavation, NewsLink: Excavating Orkney and Shetland from Current Archaeology archivesA selection of Orkney excavation highlights from the archives of Current Archaeology magazine. Click to read ...Read More Tuesday, February 7, 2023 / Excavation, LinksThe walls of Brodgar – updated againDuring the 2022 excavation season another section of the northern boundary wall, or "Great Wall of Brodgar", was exposed. The ...Read More Tuesday, January 31, 2023 / ExcavationThe real treasures of an archaeological excavation“We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past” Heinrich Schliemann ...Read More Friday, January 20, 2023 / Excavation2022’s top ten – Rethinking Structure Eight’s original entranceUnlike other Ness buildings, Structure Eight stands out as having a single entrance. Measuring over 18 metres long by 9.5 ...Read More Friday, January 6, 2023 / Excavation2022’s top ten – paved area between Structures Seventeen and EighteenStructures Seventeen and Eighteen are two earlier buildings (c3200BC) that pre-date, and lie beneath, Structure Eight (c3100BC). A focus of ...Read More Monday, January 2, 2023 / Excavation2022’s top ten – another ‘butterfly’ stoneThe "butterfly" motif has been found incised into numerous stones and surfaces across the site, and this year was no ...Read More Saturday, December 31, 2022 / Excavation2022’s top ten – two more thumb-potsWe have a growing collection of tiny "thumb pots" at the Ness, and another two were found this summer within ...Read More Friday, December 30, 2022 / ExcavationHarking back to summer with the sounds of the NessThis was one of the special events at the Ness in 2022, when Suzy Angus made us a sound poem ...Read More Thursday, December 29, 2022 / Excavation2022’s top ten – multiple post-holes in Structure FiveTwo covered depressions on either side of the blocked south-western entrance were found to be large, well-built post-holes, indicating that ...Read More Tuesday, December 27, 2022 / Excavation‹ 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 … 63 ›