Buildings through time: Structure Twenty-Seven
For the next in our series looking at the excavation of each major building on site over time, we jump across to Trench T and the enigmatic Structure Twenty-Seven.
![2015.](https://i0.wp.com/www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/S27-1.jpg?resize=700%2C482&ssl=1)
2015.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/S27-2.jpg?resize=700%2C498&ssl=1)
2016.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/S27-3.jpg?resize=700%2C565&ssl=1)
2017.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/S27-5.jpg?resize=700%2C586&ssl=1)
2018.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/S27-4.jpg?resize=700%2C532&ssl=1)
2018 – later in the season.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/s27-2019a.jpg?resize=700%2C696&ssl=1)
2019 – extending Trench T to take in the corners of Structure Twenty-Seven.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/s27-2019b.jpg?resize=700%2C709&ssl=1)
2019.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/s27-2019c.jpg?resize=700%2C679&ssl=1)
2019. working down through the extensions.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/s27-2019d.jpg?resize=700%2C789&ssl=1)
2019. End of season.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/s27-schematic.png?resize=700%2C749&ssl=1)
Structure Twenty-Seven schematic at the end of 2019.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/howe-structure-highlighted.png?resize=700%2C381&ssl=1)
The early Neolithic structure unearthed at Howe, Stromness, in the 1970s. The presence of a hearth makes the interpretation that it was a stalled cairn questionable. Instead, note the similarities to Structure Twenty-Seven at the Ness.
See also