Structure Fourteen – updated and expanded
Our fully revised entry for Structure Fourteen is now available in the “structures” section.… Read more
Category: Structures
Structure One – the heart of the Ness
The updates keep coming and this week we’re focusing on Structure One – the first building found on site over 19 years ago!
The building’s entry in the structures section… Read more
The central paved area and standing stone
A new addition to our excavation background section this week, dealing with the “central paved area” and standing stone between Structures One, Eight, Twelve and Twenty-Nine.
Click here to access.… Read more
Structure Eight – the ‘many coloured hall’
With the 2022 season a few months away, we’ve been doing some updates across the site.
Today’s is a complete rewrite of Structure Eight’s page, detailing the latest thoughts on… Read more
A detailed look at the life of Structure Twelve
Working through the website a few weeks ago, it became clear that the information on Structure Twelve was sorely lacking!
The building, possibly once one of the most stunning on… Read more
Structure Twenty-Six – an update
The next update to our pages covering the different structures in the Ness of Brodgar complex is now live. This week, we cover Structure Twenty-Six, the later building between Structures… Read more
Structures Five and Thirty-Two…
Our understanding of Structures Five and Thirty-Two in Trench J advanced considerably during the 2021 excavation season.
As a result, we’ve updated the Structure Five page and added a new… Read more
Structures Seven, Nine, Twenty-Two and Thirty-Four
We conclude our journey through the lesser known buildings at the Ness with the twilight years of the Neolithic complex.
Around a century after it was erected, Structure Ten was… Read more
Structures Eleven and Nineteen
We turn now to a later phase of activity in Trench P.
Around 2900BC, the southern half of Structure Eight had been removed, Structure Ten erected and Structures Twelve and… Read more
Structure Thirty
The large curving wall face belonging to Structure Thirty protrudes from the edge of Trench P to the south-east of Structure Twelve.
There is not much that can be said… Read more
Structures Twenty-One and Twenty-Nine
Structure Twenty-One
To the west of Structure One, and protruding from the side of Trench P, is Structure Twenty-One’s northern wall.
Only the eastern end of the building, which was… Read more
Structure Sixteen
The heavily truncated remains of Structure Sixteen sit directly to the south of Structure Fourteen in Trench P.
Measuring approximately five metres by three metres, and aligned northwest-southeast, it seems… Read more
Structures Thirty-Six and Twenty
The third part of a series looking at the lesser-known buildings at the Ness of Brodgar excavation site.
Structure Thirty-Six
When Structure Fourteen was constructed in the northern corner of… Read more
Structures Twenty-Eight, Twenty-Three and Thirty-Three
The second part of our series looking at the lesser-known buildings at the Ness of Brodgar, continues with three early constructions in the south-eastern section of Trench P – Structures… Read more
Structures Seventeen and Eighteen
One of the most commonly asked questions by visitors to the excavation is about the the structure numbers – how they are allocated and what do they represent?
The answer… Read more
Structure Twenty-Seven: A video introduction
A new video introducing the enigmatic Structure Twenty-Seven at the bottom of Trench T.… Read more
