Video – Digging cancelled due to weather
Day Four of the 2019 season. The weather hasn’t been kind to us at all so far this year, but was so bad today that all digging operations had to… Read more
Author: Sigurd
Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Day Three
Plagued by wind and rain…
In most of Britain the sun is shining. In the United States some folk are suffering a heatwave and in Europe the frazzled survivors… Read more
Day Two in pictures…
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Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Day Two
Water, water everywhere…
After the excitement and manual labour of day one, day two was just manual labour. There were tyres and sandbags to move and the swathes… Read more
Video – Uncovering Trench P
Day Two of the 2019 excavation season and work continues removing the protective covers from the Neolithic structures in Trench P.… Read more
Day One in pictures…
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Dig Diary – Monday, July 1, 2019
Day One
Rain, gales..oh my!
We’re back!
It hardly seems like ten months since we last saw the wonderful structures at the Ness of Brodgar in all their glory.
In… Read more
All set for 2019 excavation season…
Archaeologists and volunteers will return to the Ness of Brodgar next week for the thirteenth year of excavation. The covers come off the trenches on July 1, with the site… Read more
‘The Appliance of Science’ – pre-dig lecture available online
Last week’s pre-excavation lecture, in Kirkwall, by site director Nick Card.
The talk, hosted by the Orkney Archaeology Society, was entitled The Appliance of Science.… Read more
Can you help us uncover the site?
With just one week to go before excavation resumes, we’re appealing for help from anyone free on July 1 and 2.
To re-open the Ness for the 2019 season, we… Read more
Article link: The Orkney farmer who dug the world-famous Ness of Brodgar – 80 years before anyone else
A link to The Scotsman’s article on Peter Leith: https://www.scotsman.com/heritage/the-orkney-farmer-who-dug-the-world-famous-ness-of-brodgar-80-years-before-anyone-else-1-4951519
See also: 1925 ‘Brodgar stone’ was a taste of things to come… Read more
First bottle of Ness whisky raises £300 for dig funds
The first bottle of the limited-edition Ness of Brodgar’s Legacy whisky was auctioned at tonight’s pre-dig lecture and raised £300 for excavation funds.
Bidding, which started at £100, was brisk… Read more
Ness spatulas in the research spotlight…
The spatulate stone tools found at the Ness over the past few years are the subject of a new research project this summer.
Archaeology Institute UHI undergraduate Gary Lloyd has… Read more
‘The First Digger at the Ness of Brodgar’
A new blog post from Pat Long: https://www.aboutorkney.com/2019/06/15/the-first-digger-at-the-ness-of-brodgar/… Read more
Welcome boost for Ness funds from Highland Park limited edition whisky launch
Ness excavation funds will benefit from the launch of a limited edition bottling of Highland Park whisky.
A percentage of the proceeds from sales of the 5,000 bottles of Ness… Read more
Ness of Brodgar 2018 sketchbook online
Artist-in-residence Karen Wallis’s 2018 sketchbook of drawings is now online, through the link on her website homepage at www.karenwallis.co.uk.
Karen will be back on site this summer for her fourth… Read more
