Wednesday wildlife – birds around Brodgar
This week’s selection of photographs from the camera of dig director Nick Card.
Ness of Brodgar Excavation Blog
Introducing ceramics 9 – the bridge and the Bronze Age
By Roy Towers The last part of our series is rooted in ceramics research but leads down a twisting, and surprising path. We travel from the Bronze Age to Victorian times, meeting along the...
Stories in Stones – 2020 Orkney Science Festival Talk
In this talk for the 2020 Orkney Science Festival, Professor Mark Edmonds considers some of the stone artefacts from the Ness – including our carved stone ball – their origins and the story...
The Science of the Ness – 2020 Orkney Science Festival talk
In this talk for the 2020 Orkney Science Festival, site director Nick Card outlines the scientific techniques involved in excavation and post-excavation work and is joined by two colleagues from the Archaeology Institute...
Geology matters 2 – Orkney rocks!
By Dr Martha Johnson The majority of Orkney’s rocks are sedimentary, specifically clastic sedimentary rocks. These are formed from the compression of particles – clasts – of eroded rock materials. Orkney’s sedimentary rocks were...
Wednesday wildlife – osprey over the Harray loch
A few more photographs of the wild residents of the Ness from the camera of dig director Nick Card.
‘Wolf and Owl’ book helps boost Ness funds
A new chidren’s book by US author Antoinette Sarcinella is benefiting the ongoing Ness fundraising campaign. Wolf and Owl Remember takes the reader through a full life circle journey of Native American Kumi, from...
Introducing ceramics 8 – the dimpled-base experiments
By Roy Towers Ceramics research at the UHI Archaeological Institute is not always about the Ness of Brodgar assemblage. Through ORCA (Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology) we also do commercial archaeology work across Scotland...
Geology matters 1 – why rock?
By Dr Martha Johnson Archaeology concerns itself with the study of past people and cultures. It involves the examination of the physical remains of these cultures – their materials, objects and structures. Depending on...
Wednesday wildlife – swanning around…
The swans of the Stenness and Harray lochs feature in dig director Nick Card’s weekly showcase of the fauna around the Ness of Brodgar excavation site.