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.
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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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
The latest in our series looking at the excavation of each major building over time focuses on Structure Fourteen.
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3D model of Structure Fourteen: 2016
3D model of… Read more