Evolution of an excavation – the Ness dig year by year
It is now just over 17 years since the discovery of the Ness of Brodgar complex and 2020 will be the first time since 2003 that no excavation will take place on site. So...
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Archive views – around the trenches in 2007
A cache of long-lost photographs from 2007, showing Trench J, (which was re-opened and extended in 2018), Trench M (opened to examine the extent of the “Great Wall of Brodgar“) and Trench P. It’s...
Wednesday’s wildlife from the Ness
It’s Wednesday again, so we have a selection of the past week’s images from dig director Nick Card. It’s a smaller gallery this week due to the atrocious weather we’ve had in Orkney –...
Ness flanked by lochs in prehistory? Surveys suggest otherwise
Standing on the Ness of Brodgar, you can see why the peninsula was chosen to site some of the best-known ceremonial monuments of the Orcadian Neolithic. The Ness sits at the centre of a...
Pictures from the Past – The Stones of Stenness
Following our appeal for old photographs of the Ness and its environs, Pat Long sent us these early postcards showing the Stones of Stenness. Thanks Pat. If you’ve been digging through boxes, chests and...
Birds around Brodgar
Another selection of photographs from dig director Nick Card. Click on any photograph for a larger version.
Trench P from a cherry picker – August 2010
These days when we need a picture of the site from above, Professor Scott Pike sends up his drone. Back in 2010, “aerial” photographs relied on photographic towers or, in this case, a cherry...
Ness guide now available as downloadable ebook
Our excavation guidebook – The Ness of Brodgar: Digging Deeper – is now available to buy as an electronicbook (PDF), priced £5. The book tells the story of the Ness of Brodgar excavation site...
