Category: Video
Video – Circling Structure Ten
Another video from Ness supervisor Jim Rylatt, this time focusing on Structure Ten – the last major construction on site and built around 2900BC.… Read more
Video – Drone view of Structure Eight
Another of Jim Rylatt's drone videos, this time focusing on Structure Eight, the longest of the piered buildings excavated on site. Read more
Video – Structure One from above
Another short video from Jim Rylatt, this time a 360-degree flyaround of Structure One, the first building found on site back in March 2003.
Note that the walls at the… Read more
Video – Drone flyaround of Trench J
A short video of Trench J from Jim Rylatt, showing Structure Five and the northern boundary wall. Read more
Video – Drone flyaround of Trench P
A short video from Jim Rylatt showing the entirety of Trench P from above.… Read more
Diary Extra – Structure Twenty-Seven flyover video
A short video from Professor Scott Pike, showing Trench T and Structure Twenty-Seven.… Read more
Video: Structure Twelve – ‘The hammer(stone) house of horrors’
Site director Nick Card's 2023 pre-dig lecture in Kirkwall, recorded by Orkney Archaeology Society in June as part of their OAS Legacy Project. Read more
Link: Nick Card interview on Strata programme
Site director Nick Card has been in the USA, where he was keynote speaker at the Archaeology Channel’s Conference on Cultural Heritage Media.
Nick delivered a series of talks in… Read more
Video: The Ness on History Hit TV
Historian Tristan Hughes visited the Ness of Brodgar this summer, to film for the History Hit TV programme Mysteries of Prehistoric Scotland: Stone Age Orkney.
Although the full programme… Read more
Science Festival premiere for Ness of Brodgar artist’s film
A film created by Ness of Brodgar artist in residence Dr Karen Wallis was premiered today as part of the 32nd Orkney International Science Festival.
Since 2016, Karen has… Read more
Trench J flyaround
Professor Scott Pike’s end-of-season drone flight around Trench J, showing Structure Five and the “Great Wall of Brodgar“.… Read more
Dig Diary – All hands on deck for pre-photography cleaning sessions
Day Twenty-Eight
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
For all those fed-up with Ness weather reports – look away now!
For all those who are kinder souls, who care deeply… Read more
Dig Diary Extra – Bird’s-eye view of Structure Twenty-Seven
Video and photographs from Professor Scott Pike, showing Structure Twenty-Seven in all its glory yesterday.… Read more
Dig Diary Extra – Drone footage from Trench T
Two videos from Professor Scott Pike, of Willamette University, Oregon, USA, showing a drone ascent from Structure Twenty-Seven in Trench T – one ending with a view… Read more
Video – ‘Why Rocks?’
Orkney International Science Festival talk by Dr Martha Johnson, highlighting the Ness of Brodgar rocks that don’t fit the local geology, and showing clues to their origins. Read more
