Skip to content

The Ness of Brodgar Project

  • Home
  • About the Ness
  • The excavation
    • A monumental complex
    • The structures
    • The rise and fall of the Ness
    • The boundary walls
    • Timeline
    • Trench plans
    • Excavation summaries
  • Post-excavation
  • The prehistory of Orkney
    • The Age system
    • Around the Ness
    • Further Afield
  • Donate
  • Shop
  • Funding
  • Downloads
  • Ness newsletter
  • Archive
    • Video Archive
    • The Ness in 3d
  • Contact
  • Visiting the site
  • Home
  • The Ness Project
    • Excavation
      • Discovery
      • Trench plans
      • The structures
      • Buildings through time
      • Artefacts
        • Ceramics
      • Annual summaries
      • Glossary
    • Post-excavation
    • Publications
    • Information panels
    • Video archive
    • 3d models
    • Podcasts
    • Awards and accolades
  • Orkney prehistory
    • The Age system
      • Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
      • The Neolithic
      • The Bronze Age
      • The Iron Age
    • Archaeology around the Ness of Brodgar
      • Ness Neolithic Trail
    • Archaeology further afield
      • Bay of Skaill Trail
      • Bay of Firth Trail
  • Donate
    • Sponsor a Find
    • Funding
    • The Ness of Brodgar Trust
      • American Friends of the Ness of Brodgar
    • Support Us
      • Our Supporters
        • LEADER
  • Shop
    • Books
    • T-shirts
    • Cards & Prints
    • Woodturned bowls
    • Carved Stone Ball replica
    • Jewellery
    • Knitting kits & patterns
    • Original art
  • Contact

The Ness of Brodgar Project

  • Archive
  • Newsletter
  • Downloads
  • Visit
  • Excavation

Diary extra – day seventeen in pictures

Monday, July 15, 2024 (9:15 PM)

Induction time for the latest batch of diggers.  (📷 Jo Bourne)
Talking stone tools with Gary.  (📷 Jo Bourne)
Heads down in Structure Eight/Seventeen.  (📷 Jo Bourne)
Tea-break outside Structure Twelve.  (📷 Jo Bourne)
The 11am tour outside Structure Eight.  (📷 Jo Bourne)
Jo Bourne excavating the hearth in Structure Thirty-Four.  (📷 Jo Bourne - presumably with a timer)
Travis planning in Structure Ten/Twenty.  (📷 Jo Bourne)
Travis planning in Structure Ten/Twenty.  (📷 Jo Bourne)
Ralph excavation the area under the floor of Structure Five.  (📷 Jo Bourne)
  • Next story Dig Diary – evidence of a burnt timber building under Structure Five?
  • Previous story Dig Diary – visitors flock to the site on our first open day of the 2024 season

You may also like...

  • (📷 Jo Bourne)

    Dig Diary – Glorious weather sees crowds flock to Open Day

    Sunday, July 31, 2022

  • Dig Diary Extra – photographs of Trench X macehead

    Thursday, August 1, 2019

  • Day 4 featured image

    Excavating, mattocking and making plans

    Thursday, July 1, 2021

Follow:

Ness of Brodgar Timeline Ness of Brodgar Structures Around the Ness of Brodgar Around the Ness of Brodgar

More:

Help the Ness project

Donate to the Ness project

From our Shop

Ness of Brodgar Carved Stone Ball replicas Ness of Brodgar Knitting Kits Ness of Brodgar cards and prints Ness of Brodgar Books

Help support the Ness

Easyfundraising logo

Top Posts & Pages

  • Time Team's early GPR results surpass John Gater's expectations
    Time Team's early GPR results surpass John Gater's expectations
  • Ness pop-up shop in Stromness
    Ness pop-up shop in Stromness
  • Skara Brae - the houses
    Skara Brae - the houses
  • Time Team back on site along with new pottery triage volunteers
    Time Team back on site along with new pottery triage volunteers
  • A monumental complex
    A monumental complex
  • Maeshowe - historic additions, incursions and the Norse runes
    Maeshowe - historic additions, incursions and the Norse runes
  • Geophysics results suggest enclosure walls at north-western end of Ness complex
    Geophysics results suggest enclosure walls at north-western end of Ness complex
  • Ness dig ending in 2024 when focus shifts to post-excavation work
    Ness dig ending in 2024 when focus shifts to post-excavation work
  • Visiting the site
    Visiting the site
Project Supporters

Archives

Categories

Ness of Brodgar
Stenness, Orkney
info@nessofbrodgar.co.uk

Please note: The fieldwork element of the Ness of Brodgar project ended in August 2024 and the excavation site is now closed to the public. Our focus is now on post-excavation analysis.

  • Privacy Policy
  • Copyright Notice
  • Contact

The Ness of Brodgar Project © 2025. All Rights Reserved.

 

Loading Comments...