Links from the Art Hut…
At present we have three artists in residence-on-site.
Here are links to their blogs/websites etc:
Karen Wallis – website
Karen’s blog – featuring her drawings, sketches and paintings created on… Read more
From 2004, 20 years of excavation on the Ness of Brodgar revealed a huge complex of monumental Neolithic buildings from the centuries around 3000BC.
Without parallel in Atlantic Europe, the site’s three hectares are filled with huge stone structures containing spectacular finds.
These made the Ness one of the most important archaeological sites in the world today, changing our understanding of Neolithic Orkney and shining a new light on the prehistory of northern Europe.
Fieldwork ended in 2024 and the focus is now on the post-excavation analysis of the data gathered. This will lead to full publication with much more available online.
In addition, we will continue working with local communities and schools to develop educational and other resources.
The project is mainly funded through the generosity of the public through our two supporting charities, the Ness of Brodgar Trust and the American Friends.
Another standing stone outside Structure Twelve?
Some images of the suspected standing stone outside the entrance to Structure Twelve.
The stone is buried deep within what we originally thought was a passage between Structures Twelve and… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, July 26, 2019
Day TwentyStructure Twenty-Seven looking resplendent from the air. Click the image for a larger version. (📷 Scott Pike)A surprise in Jim’s ‘corner of loveliness’Today marks the half-way point of the… Read more
More images of today’s polished stone axe from Trench J
Today’s star find from Trench J.
Click any picture for a larger version. All images by Ole Thoenies.… Read more
Dig Diary – Thursday, July 25, 2019
Day NineteenThe centre of attention today – Structure Twelve and its standing stone. (📷 Jo Bourne)A standing stone outside Structure Twelve?Concentration in Trench J. Peter, Paul, Travis, Ray and Therese.… Read more
A photographic record of the 2017 dig
A book documenting the 2017 dig at the Ness of Brodgar is now available.Ness of Brodgar: Open to the Public, by Woody Musgrove, is a photographic record of the excavators… Read more
Dig Diary Extra – a batch of beads…
Most of the artefacts you see on the pages of the daily diary are fresh from 5,000 years in the soil and, clearly, don’t look their best.Here is a batch… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Day Eighteen
Thunder, lightning and no excavation!
What can we say of today, except…ugh!
To be fair it is not just today to blame; Tuesday night as well as this… Read more
Hit by the weather again!
After a day basking in glorious sunshine, Orkney’s weather did what it does best – change! Gales, rain and thunder saw excavation work cancelled this morning.It’s forecast to improve in… Read more
Day Seventeen in pictures…
A few pictures from a glorious day on site from Jo Bourne and Sigurd Towrie.
Click on any image for an enlargement.… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Day Seventeen
Sunshine, blistering heat and flies…
Wow. What a day. Blistering heat. Flies. Dust.
See, us archaeology types are never happy. Just last week we were complaining about the… Read more
Dig Diary extra – the Structure Twelve ‘passage’ from above
The putative passageway (or is it a recess?) between Structures Twelve and Twenty Six, as recorded by Professor Scott Pike this afternoon.
Click on the images for a larger version.… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, July 22, 2019
Day Sixteen
‘An absolute sea of orthostats’
We had the first of our Ness Open Days yesterday and the site and the Stenness Community Centre… Read more
Day Fifteen in pictures…
A selection of pictures from today’s open day from Jo Bourne and Sigurd Towrie.
Click on any image for a larger version.… Read more
