Category: Around the Ness
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 Stones…
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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 in…
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Evidence for earlier excavations at the Ness - probably in the early 1880s - has come to light in a handwritten note from the papers, manuscripts and notebooks kept by James Walls Cursiter.
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A new study, published in the journal Antiquity, is challenging the previously understood narrative for Neolithic Orkney.
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