Feast
Diane Eagles – Artist in residence
Three ritual feasting vessels, entitled Milk, Beef and Beer, are endowed with symbolic references to Neolithic ceramics and the Ness of Brodgar.
They are… Read more
Day Thirty
An international affair…
One of the factors which makes studying archaeology with the University of the Highlands and Islands in Orkney such an enjoyable affair is the presence… Read more
Day Twenty-Nine
Joining the dots in ‘bling central’
We haven’t mentioned Structure Eight much lately.
Formerly known as “bling central” because of the extravagance of the artefacts found within it… Read more
Day Twenty-Eight
A tale of two orthostats…
Structure Twenty-Six is one of the oddest buildings we have excavated at the Ness.
It is a peculiar shape, with walling which at… Read more
Day Twenty-Seven
More axes from opposite ends of the site
There is something about polished stone axes. We know that many of them were utilitarian items, something like the Swiss… Read more