Part six of our series looking at how excavation at the Ness of Brodgar progressed – and ideas changed – over the years, through dig director Nick Card’s annual brief… Read more
With replicas of the carved stone bone from Structure Ten going on sale online today, Ness of Brodgar excavation director Nick Card gives some background to these enigmatic objects.… Read more
A 3d photogrammetry model, by Hugo Anderson-Whymark, of the carved stone ball found at the Ness of Brodgar excavation site, by Molly Bond, on August 7, 2013.… Read more
The fifth installment in our series looking at how excavation at the Ness of Brodgar progressed – and ideas changed – over the years, through dig director Nick Card’s annual… Read more
When not working on Ness-related matters, site director Nick Card can often be seen out and about with his camera. So here’s a selection Nick’s pictures from the past seven… Read more
The Dyke of Sean, a suspected prehistoric earthwork near the Ring of Brodgar, fascinates visitors with its monumental size. It measures up to seven metres wide and a metre high, spanning 500 meters between the Stenness and Harray lochs. Despite unclear dating, masonry suggests a Neolithic origin. Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
Maeshowe interior. (📷 Jim Richardson)The presence of two main styles of Neolithic chambered cairn in Orkney has led to years of debate on their dates, use and development. Here, Sigurd… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
Each summer season the Ness of Brodgar otters are as intriqued watching the archaeologists working on site as we are watching them.
Tonight they feature on the latest episode of… Read more
