Wednesday’s wildlife from the Ness
It’s Wednesday again, so we have a selection of the past week’s images from dig director Nick Card. It’s a smaller gallery this week due to the atrocious weather we’ve… Read more
Author: Sigurd
Ness flanked by lochs in prehistory? Surveys suggest otherwise
The Ness of Brodgar sits at the centre of a massive natural "cauldron" formed by the hills of the surrounding landscape. Today, it is accentuated on either side by the freshwater Loch of Harray and the saltwater Loch of Stenness - but that was not always the case. Read more
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 the Stones of Stenness. Thanks Pat.
If you’ve been digging… Read more
Birds around Brodgar
Another selection of photographs from dig director Nick Card.
Click on any photograph for a larger version.… Read more
Trench P from a cherry picker – August 2010
These days when we need a picture of the site from above, Professor Scott Pike sends up his drone.
Back in 2010, “aerial” photographs relied on photographic towers or, in… Read more
Solved! The perplexing puzzle of the Stones of Stenness ‘building’
The Standing Stones of Stenness (1906).
There’s nothing like finally getting to the bottom of an irksome puzzle. In this case, the puzzle related to an old photograph of the… Read more
Wildlife around the Ness – Week Three
More of the residents around the Ness of Brodgar from the camera of dig director Nick Card. Click on any photograph for a larger version.… Read more
Roadwork in 2013 revealed structure beyond the ‘Great Wall’
A section of the six-metre-long section of walling uncovered during work to insert a passing place opposite the site entrance in 2013. (📷 ORCA)
The location of the 2013 trench… Read more
Post-excavation: refining the stratigraphical matrix
Each year the structure supervisors document, in great detail, how each context layer relates to others - adding to the “stratigraphic matrix” for their area. Read more
Visitor information boards available to download
Each excavation season we have a series of information boards placed across the site for the benefit of the thousands of visitors we welcome each year.
Unfortunately, this year we… Read more
More of the wildlife around the Ness
Following last week’s sample, here’s another selection of images from dig director Nick Card. Click on any photograph for a larger version.… Read more
New additions to download archive
Two new PDFs are now available in our downloads archive.
The first, Painting a picture of Neolithic Orkney: decorated stonework from the Ness of Brodgar, is a paper by dig… Read more
Clickable trench views now online
When it comes to the Ness, the sheer number of Neolithic structures can be a little daunting when reading about the archaeology.
We’re currently sitting at 36 on site –… Read more
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 stone circles in the British Isles.
Four stones remain… Read more
The wildlife of the Ness
The Ness of Brodgar is renowned for its wildlife as much as its archaeology.
When he’s not got his head down pondering Neolithic structures and artefacts, site director Nick Card… Read more
A brief introduction to Orkney’s prehistory
At the Ness of Brodgar excavation site we have pieced together a biography that spans millennia – from traces of Mesolithic activity to the site’s Neolithic heyday, through to the… Read more
