Skip to content

The Ness of Brodgar Excavation

  • Home
  • About the Ness
    • The Ness in Print
    • The Ness in 3D
    • Video archive
  • Visit the Dig
    • Daily Tours of the Site
    • Notes for Tour Groups
    • Private and out-of-hours tours
    • Ness Neolithic Trail
  • Funding
    • Donate
    • Sponsor a Find
    • The Trust
    • American Friends
  • Support Us
    • Sponsor a Find
    • Our Supporters
    • Volunteering
  • Contact
  • Shop
    • Books
    • Jewellery
    • Carved Stone Ball replicas
    • Woodturned bowls
    • Card & Prints
    • Knitting Kits & Patterns
    • Digital Downloads
  • Donate
    • Sponsor a Find
  • Home
  • About the Ness
    • The Ness in Print
    • The Ness in 3D
    • Video archive
  • Visit the Dig
    • Daily Tours of the Site
    • Notes for Tour Groups
    • Private and out-of-hours tours
    • Ness Neolithic Trail
  • Funding
    • Donate
    • Sponsor a Find
    • The Trust
    • American Friends
  • Support Us
    • Sponsor a Find
    • Our Supporters
    • Volunteering
  • Contact
  • Shop
    • Books
    • Jewellery
    • Carved Stone Ball replicas
    • Woodturned bowls
    • Card & Prints
    • Knitting Kits & Patterns
    • Digital Downloads
  • Donate
    • Sponsor a Find

The Ness of Brodgar Excavation

  • The Excavation
    • Trench Plans
    • The Structures
    • Buildings through time
    • Artefacts
      • Ceramics
    • Annual summaries
    • Information Panels
    • Awards and accolades
    • The Ness in Print
    • Glossary
  • Orkney’s prehistory
    • Around the Ness
    • Further Afield
    • Ness Neolithic Trail
    • Bay of Skaill Trail
    • Bay of Firth Trail
  • Downloads
  • Newsletter
  • Archive

Around the Ness

Binscarth Woods, Firth, Orkney. (Sigurd Towrie)
Where’s the trees? Gathering and using timber in Neolithic Orkney
Ring of Brodgar Runes (Sigurd Towrie)
The Norse on the Ness of Brodgar
Buckan Geophysics (ORCA)
Geophysics suggests the Ness may not be the unique Neolithic site once thought
The lower revetment wall of the Iron Age ditch in Trench T at the Ness of Brodgar. (Sigurd Towrie)
Enclosing the midden mound – Iron Age activity at the Ness
Big Howe. Sigurd Towrie
Big Howe
Bay of Skaill trail
The Bay of Skaill trail
Picture: Aberdeen University
Around the Ness in the 19th century with George Washington Wilson
The Standing Stones of Stenness, looking north-west towards the Ness of Brodgar. (Sigurd Towrie)
Time for the old house to die? – henges and houses in the Neolithic
Picture: Jo Bourne
The ‘Lochview’ Standing Stones
Wasbister, Sandwick.
Wasbister settlement and disc barrow
Skaefrue
The Odin Stone. Marchioness of Stafford. 1805.
The Stone of Odin
Ness Neolithic trail - featured image
Walk the Ness Neolithic Trail
Knowes and Barrows
Knowes and barrows on the Ness of Brodgar
The Barnhouse Stone, Stenness. (Sigurd Towrie)
The Barnhouse Stone
Howe, Stromness
The Deepdale Standing Stone, Stromness, Orkney (Sigurd Towrie)
The Deepdale Stone
Bookan chambered cairn, Orkney. (ORCA)
The Bookan Chambered Cairn
The reconstructed Structure Eight at Barnhouse. (Sigurd Towrie)
The Barnhouse Settlement – Structure Eight
Barnhouse Settlement - House 2
The Barnhouse Settlement – House Two
The Barnhouse Settlement, Stenness, Orkney. (Nick Card)
The Barnhouse Settlement
Hearth in Maeshowe featured image
A hearth in Maeshowe?
Maeshowe
Maeshowe – part two
Maeshowe interior. (Jim Richardson)
Maeshowe
Winter snow. (Sigurd Towrie)
The Stones of Stenness – part two
Stones of Stenness, Orkney
The Stones of Stenness
The Ring of Bookan, Sandwick. This ditched enclosure at the north-western end of the Ness covers a similar area to the Stones of Stenness. Unlike the Stones of Stenness, however, it has no entrance causeway. (Sigurd Towrie)
The Ring of Bookan
The Ring of Brodgar. (Sigurd Towrie)
Howastedgarth – the old name for the Ring of Brodgar?
South-eastern entrance to the Ring of Brodgar. (Sigurd Towrie)
The Ring of Brodgar
Unstan Stalled Cairn
Little Barnhouse Mound. Sigurd Towrie
The ‘Little Barnhouse’ mound
Comet Stone and Ring of Brodgar. 2000. (Sigurd Towrie)
The Comet Stone
Ness of Brodgar. (Jim Richardson)
A natural cursus? Water, walls and walking the Ness of Brodgar
Dyke o' Sean, Stenness.
The Dyke of Sean – a third monumental wall crossing the Ness
Maeshowe interior. (Jim Richardson)
Agents of transformation – the role of chambered cairns in Neolithic Orkney
The Watchstone and the Brig o' Brodgar (Jim Richardson)
The Watchstone
The Ness of Brodgar today, flanked by the Lochs of Stenness (left) and Harray (right). (Scott Pike)
Ness flanked by lochs in prehistory? Surveys suggest otherwise
2013 road work revealed structure beyond the ‘Great Wall’

Follow:

Ness of Brodgar Neolithic Trail
Ness of Brodgar Timeline Explore the Trenches Ness of Brodgar Structures Around the Ness of Brodgar Around the Ness of Brodgar

More:

Orkney’s Prehistory

  • Introduction
  • The Age system
    • Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
    • Neolithic
    • Bronze Age
    • Iron Age
Ness of Brodgar Neolithic Trail Bay of Skaill Trail Bay of Firth Neolithic Trail
Please Donate

Popular Posts

  • Work under way this morning to remove the tyres from Trench T.

    Can you help uncover the site in July?

    18 May, 2022

  • The Central Standing Stone (Jo Bourne)

    The central paved area and standing stone

    22 Apr, 2022

  • Wednesday wildlife – a rare visitor to Orkney shores

    27 Apr, 2022

  • Wooden macehead

    Woodturned macehead among new additions to Ness shop

    27 Apr, 2022

Archives

Categories


Supporters Logos

Opening Hours

Ness of Brodgar
Stenness, Orkney
info@nessofbrodgar.co.uk
2022 Excavation Season - July 4 - August 19, 2022
Site open to the public weekdays between 9.30am and 4.30pm
  • Privacy Policy
  • Copyright Notice
  • Contact

The Ness of Brodgar Excavation © 2022. All Rights Reserved.