The Ness of Brodgar has been selected for a 2019 Shanghai Archaeology Forum Field Discovery Award. Having heard we had been nominated a few weeks ago, we have just learnt that we have won an award. For this year’s forum, a total of 141 nominations from around the world were …
Would you like a private tour of the Ness, and at the same time support Children in Need? Now you can by bidding in the Radio Orkney charity auction to raise funds for the annual country-wide appeal. The tour is for up to ten people and can be taken …
The dates for the 2020 excavation season at the Ness have been confirmed. We will be back on site from July 6, 2020 until August 21, 2020, with the site open to the public, with tours running, from July 8 until August 19. Next year’s two open days will be …
Over the last few seasons we have discovered many sherds of pottery that exhibit colour. The Ness is one of the very few sites in the UK where this has been recognised and may represent the oldest polychrome pottery in Britain. A new paper – Analysis of coloured Grooved Ware …
The Ness of Brodgar has been nominated both by Professor Eszter Bánffy of the German Archaeological Institute, and Dr Michael Boyd of the University of Cambridge for the prestigious 2019 Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF) Awards Program (Discovery Award). Founded in 2013, Shanghai Archaeology Forum is a global initiative dedicated to …
Archaeology Scotland had the opportunity to visit the Ness during this summer’s eight-week excavation season. Click here to read their report.
Professor Mark Edmonds will launch his new book, Orcadia – Land, Sea and Stone in Neolithic Orkney, at an open event in the Stromness Library on Monday evening, October 14. At the launch, Mark will give a talk on Neolithic Orkney and some of the material covered in his book, …
A must buy for anyone interested in the Neolithic of Orkney and its wonderful sites, is the brilliant new book Orcadia – Land, Sea and Stone in Neolithic Orkney by Professor Mark Edmonds, long-term friend and supporter of the Ness. This handsome and beautifully written volume really puts the Ness …
A link to today’s Current Archaeology’s article on this summer’s excavation: https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/summer-of-finds-at-the-ness-of-brodgar.htm
The Ness was very pleased today to welcome a special guest to site – well in fact two – Morph and his creator Peter Lord and his family. Peter is the animator, film producer, director and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio – best known for his clay-animated films …
This year the Art Hut hosted four artists: Jeanne Bouza Rose, Diane Eagles, Karen Wallis, and Annie Wright. For the first four weeks of the excavation, Annie Wright took photos of the diggers and the stones, portraying “Life in the Trenches”, as part of her collections of ancient heritage sites. …
We are very sad to announce, after battling a long illness, the passing away of Bryn, the director’s site dog and the real director of the Ness. He will be missed by us all, and by all the visitors to the Ness who he met and greeted in his own special way. Bryn would be there in …
For a few days now this little character has been spotted regularly from the excavation site, swimming around the banks of the Harray loch. The otter seems to be as fascinated by us as we are of it – and today came out of the water close to our finds …
