We’re delighted to have our knitting kits back in the Ness online shop. We had to stop them for a while because we had Covid-19 related supply problems but these have been overcome. The...
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 early Bronze Age and...
The Ness of Brodgar looks set to take play a major role in a new animated feature film set in Neolithic Orkney. Lugi: the Brodgar Boy is the brainchild of Orcadian illustrator Alex Leonard,...
Our excavation guidebook – The Ness of Brodgar: Digging Deeper – is now available to buy as an electronicbook (PDF), priced £5. The book tells the story of the Ness of Brodgar excavation site...
In 2013, the Ness excavations featured in Archaeology magazine – a publication by the Archaeological Institute of America. For those who missed the article, now’s your chance to catch up on it and over...
The Covid-19 cancellation of the 2020 Ness of Brodgar excavation, and related fundraising activity, is having a serious impact on Ness funds. Contrary to what many people think, the Ness is NOT an excavation...
In a few weeks, we’re planning to launch a series of online question-and-answer sessions in which dig director Nick Card will respond to queries submitted by fans of the Ness. So if you’ve got...
Last year we congratulated Martha Johnson, our resident geologist, for gaining her PhD for her thesis entitled Rock matters: A geological basis for understanding the rock at the Ness of Brodgar. We are now...