Visitors to the excavation are always fascinated by the two monumental walls flanking the Ness of Brodgar complex. The sight of the beautiful stonework of the four-metre (13ft) thick section of the “Great Wall...
The Ness excavation is one of a number of archaeological projects across Scotland whose focus on the internet this summer is more important than ever. With much of this year’s fieldwork being postponed due...
Welcome to the fourth part in our series looking at how the Ness of Brodgar excavation has progressed – and ideas changed – over the years via dig director Nick Card’s annual brief summaries...
Here we are on week nine, with a bumper collection of photographs from around the Ness by dig director Nick Card. The photographs don’t mean Nick has forsaken the archaeology and taken up photography...
The presence of two styles of Neolithic chambered cairn in Orkney has led to years of debate on their dates, use and development. Here, Sigurd looks at current thinking on Orkney’s cairns, particularly in...
The third in our series looking at how the Ness of Brodgar excavation has progressed, and ideas changed, over the years via dig director Nick Card’s annual brief summaries for Archaeology Scotland’s Discovery and...
One from our video archive – work getting under way uncovering and cleaning up Trench P in July 2010.
Aside from a few days of sunshine – we even hit the spectacular heights of 19 deg celsius on one memorable Monday! – the weather in Orkney over the past week has been pretty...
