By Sigurd Towrie (Part One here) Based on shared architectural elements, Maeshowe has given its name to a specific class of chambered cairn. Characterised by side cells branching off from a central chamber accessed...
For the next in our series looking at the excavation of each major building on site over time, we jump across to Trench T and the enigmatic Structure Twenty-Seven. See also 2016 – Trench...
Sadly, a week ago today, the body of Pinkie, the dog otter, was found by the side of the Stenness loch. He had died of natural causes. Site director Nick captured these images in...
“But the most remarkable tumulus in Orkney is situated to the north-east of the Ring of Stenness and is called M’eshoo or Meashowe (sic).” Lieutenant F. W. L. Thomas. Account of some of the...
Book review by Dr Howie Firth MBE, director of the Orkney International Science Festival. It was a spring ploughing that did it, in Ola and Arnie Tait’s field at Brodgar in 2003. The plough...
After months of hard work, the Ness of Brodgar interim monograph was launched at a special, socially distanced, event in Kirkwall last night. Discovered in 2003, excavation at the Neolithic complex began in...
Excavation at the Ness of Brodgar began in 2005 and The Ness of Brodgar: As it Stands features contributions from University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute staff as well as specialists from...
We were deeply saddened to learn that one of our regular team members, Fraser Dixon, has passed away. Fraser was one of our regular “meet-and-greet” volunteers during the summer excavation seasons and a familiar,...
UPDATE: This piece has been sold. Watch this space for further Ness collaborations in the coming months Michael Sinclair, Orcadian, member of the Register of Professional Woodturners, makes exquisite and unique woodturned pieces, many...
With just days to go until its official launch, signed copies of The Ness of Brodgar: As it Stands are now available to order via our online shop, priced £35.99. Edited by Nick Card,...
Last order dates for delivery before Christmas 2020 are: Australia and New Zealand: December 1, 2020 Rest of the world: December 8, 2020 UK/Ireland: December 16, 2020. We’ll process orders received after those dates,...
The next in our series looking at the excavation of each major building on site over time focuses on the smaller and later Structure Twenty-Six. The excavation of Structure Twenty-Six began in August 2016,...
Wednesday again, so time for this week’s selection of photographs from dig director Nick Card.
Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, curator of prehistory (Palaeolithic to Neolithic) at the National Museums of Scotland, and Mark Hall, history officer at Perth Museum and Art Gallery, talk carved stone balls – focusing on...