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
Category: Video
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 to Hoy… 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
Video – ‘The Ness in Rock and Stone’
Today's Orkney International Science Festival talk featuring Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card, Dr Ann Clark and Dr Antonia Thomas of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute. Read more
Dig Diary Extra: Dr Jo McKenzie successfully recovers first timber sample
A video of Jo recovering the first of two Neolithic timber samples from the interior of Structure Twelve today. Apologies for the sound quality – the Orcadian wind is… Read more
The Ness’ seaweed-eating sheep and their European context
The recording of last Friday’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, looking at the analysis of sheep and deer teeth from the Ness of Brodgar.
The seminar, entitled 5,000 years of… 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
The Ness dig – a video introduction
New to the Ness of Brodgar? Wondering what the excavation is all about? Here’s our new seven-minute video summary of the site.… Read more
Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 6
All change around 2500/2400 BC? End of the ‘Scottish Neolithic’ and the future of Neolithic studies
The last of this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures,… Read more
Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 5
‘Not just a load of old balls’: Late Neolithic developments and the creation of a new world order
In this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures,… Read more
Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 4
Making sense of funerary monuments and funerary practices
In this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures, Dr Alison Sheridan is bringing together the most up-to-date research… Read more
Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 3
An everyday story of country folk?
In this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures, Dr Alison Sheridan is bringing together the most up-to-date research to show… Read more
