Video: Exploring prehistoric Scotland
History Hit TV's 'Mysteries of Prehistoric Scotland' series, filmed in 2022, is now available to all as a single documentary. Read more
Category: Video
Video: Comparing rock art…
Dr Antonia Thomas, from the UHI Archaeology Institute, features in a new Time Team video on prehistoric rock art, contrasting that found on Ilkley Moor with the Neolithic carvings in Orkney and the Ness of Brodgar. Read more
Video: Professor Colin Richards on death and burial in Neolithic Orkney
A pair of videos from Professor Colin Richards, created for the UHI Archaeology Institute's Tombs of the Isles project. Read more
Video: The dead of winter – Maeshowe and the solstice
Today, Saturday, December 21, is the winter solstice - a day inextricably linked to Maeshowe in Stenness. Read more
Video: Eday’s Setter Stone from above…
A short video from Jim Rylatt showing the Stone of Setter in the Eday landscape. Read more
Video: ARP 2025 – ‘Ness of Brodgar: saving the best till last’
The recording of Nick Card's talk at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Archaeological Research in Progress 2025 conference in Edinburgh. Read more
Video: ARP 2025 – ‘(Re)discovering a Neolithic passage grave at Blomuir, Holm, Orkney’
The recording of Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark's talk on the Blomuir chambered cairn, Holm, at the Archaeological Research in Progress 2025 conference. Read more
Video: Past, Present and Future – Ness of Brodgar exhibition film
Mark Jenkins' film of last summer's Ness of Brodgar: Past, Present and Future exhibition in the Orkney Museum is now available to view online. Read more
Video: Update on 2024 season at Blomuir chambered cairn now available
The recording of Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark's Orkney Archaeology Society talk the 2024 excavation season at the Blomuir chambered cairn is now available. Read more
Video: Time Team at the Knowe of Swandro
Time Team's John Gater at the Knowe of Swandro dig in Rousay. Read more
Video: ‘The Ness of Brodgar: a Neolithic wonder in the Orkney Islands’
A video from Kieran Dodds, who visited the site at the start of the 2024 season. Read more
Video: Orkney set to say goodbye to the Ness of Brodgar
A marvellous, and touching, video from Orkney.com, outlining the Ness as we approach the end of the project's excavation phase. Read more
Diary extra – drone orbit of Trench P
Video footage from Professor Scott Pike showing Trench P in all its glory. Read more
Diary extra – work under way in Structure Twenty-Seven
Professor Scott Pike's drone footage from yesterday showing work under way in Structure Twenty-Seven. Read more
Dig Diary – halted by rain again but only after some intriguing discoveries
The weather turned foul again today, but fortunately we did manage a full morning's excavation - with some interesting discoveries. Read more
Structure Twenty-Seven reconstruction
A video of a preliminary 3D reconstruction of Structure Twenty-Seven, created by Trench J supervisor Paul Durdin, is now available on the building's page. Read more
