Stories in Stones – 2020 Orkney Science Festival Talk
In this talk for the 2020 Orkney Science Festival, Professor Mark Edmonds considers some of the stone artefacts from the Ness – including our carved stone ball – their… Read more
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The Science of the Ness – 2020 Orkney Science Festival talk
In this talk for the 2020 Orkney Science Festival, site director Nick Card outlines the scientific techniques involved in excavation and post-excavation work and is joined by two colleagues… Read more
Video: Stone spatulate tools from the Ness of Brodgar
Archaeology Institute UHI graduate Gary Lloyd was awarded a Carnegie Vacation Scholarship to complete the research, which focused on the spoon-like artefacts, of which over 80 have been found to date. Read more
Woodlands under the waves…
A talk by Dr Scott Timpany of the Archaeology Institute UHI on prehistoric woodlands preserved within intertidal peats around the coastline of Britain.
Here Scott explains the information these… Read more
The trouble with Cuween: human remains from Neolithic Orkney
Do we have evidence of ritualised violence at Cuween? A video lecture from Dr Rebecca Crozier, well-known in Orkney for her work at the Quanterness Chambered Cairn, released as… Read more
Diary extra – a summertime wander around the Ring of Brodgar
With some work to do at Ness dig HQ, Sigurd decided to take a wander around the Ring of Brodgar first. Read more
Dig director Nick on Neolithic carved stone balls
With replicas of the carved stone bone from Structure Ten going on sale online today, Ness of Brodgar excavation director Nick Card gives some background to these enigmatic objects.… Read more
From the archives – Re-opening Trench P
One from our video archive – work getting under way uncovering and cleaning up Trench P in July 2010.… Read more
Video – Ness presentation at Shanghai awards ceremony
In November 2019, the Ness of Brodgar excavation project was selected for a 2019 Shanghai Archaeology Forum Field Discovery Award.
In December, site director Nick Card was flown to Shanghai,… Read more
Video – Trench P in 2008
Looking back it’s incredible to see the changes in the site over the past 12 years!
This short video – it was a test, hence the terrible quality – shows… Read more
Video – Ness flyaround: July 2019
Harking back to the balmy summer days of July 2019. A drone flyaround of the site, with excavation in full swing. (Scott Pike)… Read more
Video – Day Twenty-One: Around the Trenches
A brief snapshot of what was a busy day on site.… Read more
Hit by the weather again!
After a day basking in glorious sunshine, Orkney’s weather did what it does best – change! Gales, rain and thunder saw excavation work cancelled this morning.
It’s forecast to improve… Read more
Video – Drone site flyaround
Drone aerial footage of the Ness of Brodgar excavation site today from Professor Scott Pike of Willamette University, Oregon, USA.… Read more
Video – Sunshine over Trench J
After a week of wet and windy weather, great progress was made in Trench J, and across the entire site, under bright sunshine today.… Read more
Video – Digging cancelled due to weather
Day Four of the 2019 season. The weather hasn’t been kind to us at all so far this year, but was so bad today that all digging operations had to… Read more
Video – Uncovering Trench P
Day Two of the 2019 excavation season and work continues removing the protective covers from the Neolithic structures in Trench P.… Read more
