Wednesday wildlife – feathered friends
We’re back with a selection of photographs from the camera of Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card.
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Author: Sigurd
The Bay of Firth Neolithic trail
Now that things are getting back to some semblance of normality, we’ve turned out attention to the incredibly rich Neolithic landscape around the Bay of Firth.
Although the trail focuses… Read more
Structure Twenty-Seven: A video introduction
A new video introducing the enigmatic Structure Twenty-Seven at the bottom of Trench T.… Read more
Wideford Hill chambered cairn
Just under three miles to the east of Cuween Hill, on the steep, upper slopes of Wideford Hill, is a second Neolithic passage grave. Read more
Link: The significance of red deer in prehistory
A link to a new article, Connecting the Edges: The Call of the Wild, by Kath Page, a postgraduate MLitt Archaeology Studies student at the UHI Archaeology Institute. Read more
Wednesday wildlife – hare today…
This week’s selection of photographs from site director Nick Card.… Read more
Cuween chambered cairn
The Cuween cairn is built on an artificial terrace on the upper slopes of Cuween Hill's eastern side. Cuween is a Maeshowe-type cairn consisting of a “roughly rectangular” central chamber with four smaller cells branching off from each side. Read more
Around the Ness in the 19th century with George Washington Wilson
We were delighted to learn this week that the University of Aberdeen’s George Washington Wilson photographic archive is free to access online.
Operating from Aberdeen, on the Scottish mainland, in… Read more
Wednesday wildlife – hunters and prey
Our weekly showcase of wildlife photographs from Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card.… Read more
Quernstone is latest evidence of Early Neolithic settlement site on Kirkwall’s outskirts
The discovery of a huge prehistoric quernstone is the latest evidence of an Early Neolithic settlement on the outskirts of Kirkwall, Orkney.
Ploughing near Saverock, St Ola, uncovered the… Read more
Potter’s fingerprint discovered on 5,000-year-old sherd
The Neolithic potter’s fingerprint on a sherd of pottery recovered at the Ness of Brodgar. (📷 Jan Blatchford)
In Orkney, around 5,000 years ago, a Neolithic potter sat down and… Read more
Wednesday wildlife – all around the lochs
This week’s superb selection of photographs from dig director Nick Card.
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Time for the old house to die? – henges and houses in the Neolithic
Over the past few weeks, we have looked at expedient architecture - the idea that some Neolithic buildings were hastily built, perhaps dismantled or simply left to become ruinous. This is not restricted to structures. Read more
Evidence of fine ceramics at the Ness?
By Roy Towers
Many of you will be familiar with the work of Cecily Webster, our eagle-eyed flotation expert, and her assistant, Travis.
Their task is to take the buckets… Read more
Wednesday wildlife – enjoying the sun
It’s been a week of it in Orkney – gales, rain and snow! But thankfully, in between all that, there’s been plenty of sunshine.
Although the sun struggled to raise… Read more
Stratigraphy: unpicking the history of the Ness complex
One very crucial aspect of post-excavation work is the analysis of the stratigraphy and the creation of chronological phases for the site which all this information can be related to. Read more
