The Ness of Brodgar Excavation

The Ness of Brodgar Excavation

Standing Stones

The Deepdale Standing Stone, Stromness, Orkney (Sigurd Towrie)
Around the Ness: The Deepdale Stone
By Sigurd Towrie Head north along the road parallel to the south-western shore of the Stenness loch and a single ...
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Winter snow. (Sigurd Towrie)
Around the Ness: The Stones of Stenness – part two
"Each of the remaining pillars is about 18 feet above ground: one was lately thrown down, but has not been ...
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Comet Stone and Ring of Brodgar. 2000. (Sigurd Towrie)
Around the Ness: the Comet Stone
"The old track now passes by a small, solitary standing stone slab, encircled in green for some distance around its ...
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Skara Brae - Jim Richardson
Photographic mastery – Jim Richardson views from around the Ness
In 2012, Jim Richardson visited the Ness to capture images for a planned National Geographic feature article. The resultant images ...
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Ness of Brodgar. (Jim Richardson)
A natural cursus? Water, walls and walking the Ness
“Seven thousand years ago, Mesolithic hunter gatherers walked the long ridge of land in the heart of Orkney, known today ...
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Diary extra – Around the Ring of Brodgar
It's a beautiful day in the West Mainland of Orkney. One of those very rare summer days when there's hardly ...
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The Watchstone and the Brig o' Brodgar (Jim Richardson)
Around the Ness: The Watchstone
"When on the way to the Bridge of Brogar, attention is at once arrested by a singly giant monolith … ...
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The Standing Stones of Stenness from the Brodgar road. Given the presence of the reconstructed "dolmen" the photograph is later than 1906.
Pictures from the Past – The Stones of Stenness
Following our appeal for old photographs of the Ness and its environs, Pat Long sent us these early postcards showing ...
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Solved! The perplexing puzzle of the Stones of Stenness ‘building’
There’s nothing like finally getting to the bottom of an irksome puzzle. In this case, the puzzle related to an ...
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The Ring of Brodgar (Jim Richardson)
Ring of Brodgar relegated to fifth place in stone circle size table
Archaeological work in south-west Wales has pushed the Ring of Brodgar back to fifth place in the list of largest ...
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