Wednesday wildlife – stoats, skarfies and selkies
This week’s photographs from site director Nick Card.… Read more
Author: Sigurd
Structures Seventeen and Eighteen updated
Structures Seventeen and Eighteen are two earlier buildings that pre-date, and lie beneath, Structure Eight. During the 2022 excavation season, one of the focuses was to reveal more of the… Read more
Link: Prehistoric Orkney grain sheds light on Neolithic farming in Scotland
House Three at the Braes of Ha’Breck showing the areas of burnt grain. (📷 Antonia Thomas/Dan Lee)
Our UHI Archaeology Institute colleagues Dr Antonia Thomas and Dan Lee are the… Read more
Wednesday wildlife – creatures of land, sky and water
This week’s selection of wildlife photographs from site director Nick Card.… Read more
An unfinished ‘butterfly’ slab from Structure Seventeen?
Over the past 17 years, excavation at the Ness of Brodgar has revealed hundreds of examples of Neolithic “art”.
These vary from light, ephemeral markings to deeply, and precisely,… Read more
Link: ‘Neolithic culinary traditions revealed by cereal, milk and meat lipids in pottery from Scottish crannogs’
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including… Read more
Wednesday wildlife returns…
After its summer break, Wednesday wildlife is back with a selection of images from site director Nick Card.
For new readers, the Ness of Brodgar is renowned for its wildlife… Read more
Two new books from Mark Edmonds
News just in of two new books by our friend Mark Edmonds, Visiting Professor at the UHI Archaeology Institute and Research Coordinator at the Ness of Brodgar.
The first,… Read more
Science Festival premiere for Ness of Brodgar artist’s film
A film created by Ness of Brodgar artist in residence Dr Karen Wallis was premiered today as part of the 32nd Orkney International Science Festival.
Since 2016, Karen has… Read more
Micromorphology at the Ness on the agenda at Budapest conference
Micromorphologist Dr Jo McKenzie will deliver a paper on the Ness of Brodgar at the European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting in Budapest tomorrow, Thursday, September 1. Read more
That’s all folks! See you next year, funding permitting
The 2022 season at the Ness of Brodgar is now officially over.
Today was spent covering all the archaeology and we’re delighted to announce we managed it all in one… Read more
Link: A summer of excavation – photographs from Tim Winterburn
Images from photographer Tim Winterburn. Read more
Dig Diary – It’s all over for another year
Day Thirty-Three
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Well, it has arrived. The end of excavation for this year.
The black plastic sheeting and the tyres have been moved into… Read more
Dig Diary Extra – Trench J in 3d
A new annotated 3d model of Trench J, featuring Structure Five and the northern boundary wall.… Read more
Dig Diary – Bone deposit outside Twenty-Seven brings Structure Ten’s decommissioning to mind
Day Thirty-Two
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Where does the time go?
After what seems like the blink of an eye, today was the penultimate day of archaeological work on site.… Read more
