Wednesday wildlife – wintry weather
A definite wintry feel to this week’s offering from site director Nick Card.
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The Ness dig – a video introduction
New to the Ness of Brodgar? Wondering what the excavation is all about? Here’s our new seven-minute video summary of the site.… Read more
Walk the Ness Neolithic Trail
Although visitors can’t come to Orkney at present due to the Covid pandemic travel restrictions, we’re all looking forward to a time when things get back to some semblance of… Read more
Ness book declared ‘a stunning accomplishment’
The Ness of Brodgar interim monograph has been hailed a “stunning accomplishment” by Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology magazine.
In his review in the March/April issue, he highlights that… Read more
Wednesday wildlife – birds of a feather
We’re under a thick blanket of snow at the moment, so this week its a few of site director Nick’s photographs from late January, when things were not quite so… Read more
The knowes, howes and barrows around the Ring of Brodgar
Although the Ring of Brodgar dominates the surrounding area, the stone circle is but the tip of an archaeological iceberg. Read more
Wednesday wildlife – ice hunters
We’ve been in the grip of some cold weather, meaning iced-up loch sections. But as these pictures from site director Nick Card show, the daily hunt for food involved a… Read more
The Barnhouse Stone
A solitary lichen-crowned megalith stands in a field about half a mile to the south-east of the Stones of Stenness. Read more
Wednesday wildlife – otters in action
We’ve had a wintry spell in Orkney, with a bit of snow and plenty of ice.
But despite the cold conditions, the Ness of Brodgar otters have been out and… Read more
An archaeological best-seller: first print of Ness monograph sold out
Less than two months since its launch, a second print of our interim monograph, The Ness of Brodgar: As it Stands, is under way.
Demand for the title has been… Read more
Wednesday wildlife – creatures great and small
This week’s photographic offering from Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card.
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The Deepdale Stone
Head north along the road south-west of the Stenness loch and a single standing stone will be clearly visible on high ground to the north-west. Located in the parish of Stromness, the Deepdale Stone stands 1.8 metres (6ft) high. Read more
Wednesday wildlife – above, on and in the lochs
The fauna of the Ness of Brodgar captured through the camera lens of Ness of Brodgar dig director Nick Card.… Read more
Wednesday wildlife – otters at work and play
The first week of 2021 and the Ness of Brodgar otters have been out and about, as these pictures from site director Nick Card show.… Read more
Barnhouse – Structure Eight
Around 3000BC, some 200 years after the founding of the Barnhouse settlement, a “building of monumental proportions” was erected on the site of a meeting area on the village outskirts. Read more
Another happy contributor…
It’s been a strange year – of that there is no doubt – and we’ve reached the end of 2020.
Although it will be remembered for the things we couldn’t… Read more
