The Sandfiold Bronze Age cemetery
Sandfiold is a low hill, near Skara Brae, that is home to the remnants of an extensive Bronze Age cemetery. Read more
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Wednesday wildlife – the otter at the bottom of the garden
This week’s photographs from Ness site director Nick Card focus on one of his next door neighbours and a frequent visitor to his garden.… Read more
Visit Skara Brae virtually with new digital 3D model
A new 3D model of Skara Brae is offering online visitors an immersive digital experience of the 5,000-year-old Neolithic settlement. Read more
Wednesday wildlife – making the most of the scant hours of daylight
This week’s photographic offering from Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card.
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The Knowes of Trotty – a Bronze Age cemetery and Neolithic settlement site
The Knowes of Trotty form a Bronze Age barrow cemetery that is the only one of its kind in northern Britain and the largest between here and southern England. Read more
British Museum announce objects joining Ness artefacts at Stonehenge exhibition
Stonehenge. (📷 English Heritage)
A selection of artefacts from the Ness of Brodgar are among the hundreds coming together for a special exhibition on Stonehenge at the British Museum next… Read more
Wednesday wildlife – watching you watching me
Our weekly selection of photographs from site director Nick Card.… Read more
Tracing the Lines: Uncovering Grooved Ware Trajectories in Neolithic Scotland
Dr. Mike Copper co-authored a paper analysing the adoption, development, and demise of Neolithic Grooved Ware pottery in Scotland, positing its origins in Orkney around 3160-3090 BC. Read more
Wednesday wildlife – the otter and the eel meal
This week’s photographic selection from site director Nick Card documents one of his aquatic neighbours on the Ness taking to the water and successfully catching a meal!
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A detailed look at the life of Structure Twelve
Working through the website a few weeks ago, it became clear that the information on Structure Twelve was sorely lacking!
The building, possibly once one of the most stunning on… Read more
Wednesday wildlife – buffeted by a westerly
This week’s photographs from dig director Nick Card.… Read more
Supporting research at the Ness
One of the ways we can best progress work on the Ness of Brodgar is via student research, particularly at postgraduate level.
If we can at least cover… Read more
Wednesday wildlife – an early morning otter encounter
This week’s gallery of photographs from site director Nick Card featured a special, early morning encounter with one of the otters who call the Ness home.
The pictures of the… Read more
Basketry marks inside a Grooved Ware vessel? Another Ness pottery mystery…
Pottery sherds from Structure Twenty-Six show what appear to be basketry impressions on the interior. Read more
Wednesday wildlife – squabbling and sheltering between the lochs
Wednesday dawns – or at least it will in another 25 minutes or so in Orkney – so we’ve got another batch of photographs from excavation director Nick Card. As… Read more
Structure Five revelations during reduced-scale 2021 excavation
2021
The 2021 excavation – the first since 2019, due to the pandemic – was on a much-reduced scale to previous seasons, with only Structure 10 and 12 in… Read more
